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Sports, Government, and Politics, in Ukraine and Around the World"
"The 100th anniversary of Anton Chekhov's death on July 14, 1904,
occurred last Wednesday, with barely a mention of this internationally
important writer and playwright. With an eerie sense of foreboding,
Chekhov entered and departed from this world on the cusp of great
social upheaval.
"His birth and his death were immediately followed by two events that
left Russia forever altered: the emancipation of the serfs in 1861
and the 1905 worker's uprising.
"The grandson of a serf who bought himself out of slavery and the son
of a Kiev shopkeeper, Chekhov was born on Jan. 29, 1860, a year
before the Emancipation Act, in Taganrog, Ukraine." (article fifteen)
"THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT" Year 04, Number 119
Action Ukraine Coalition (AUC), Washington, D.C.
Ukrainian Federation of America (UFA), Huntingdon Valley, PA
morganw@patriot.net, ArtUkraine.com@starpower.net (ARTUIS)
Washington, D.C.; Kyiv, Ukraine, TUESDAY, July 20, 2004
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"Major International News Headlines and Articles"
1.PROFILE OF UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION
HEAD VIKTOR MEDVEDCHUK
BBC Monitoring Research Service, UK, Friday, Jul 16, 2004
2. UKRAINIAN PM YANUKOVICH CALLS ON UKRAINIAN AND
RUSSIAN INDUSTRIALISTS TO UNITE TO PURSUE
COMMON POLICY IN WORLD MARKETS
ITAR-TASS, Moscow, Russia, Monday, July 19, 2004
3. BLAST RIPS THROUGH UKRAINE COAL MINE, KILLS 25
REUTERS, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 20, 2004
4. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO CLIMBS
UKRAINE'S HIGHEST MOUNTAIN HOVERLA
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian 18 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Monday, July 19 2004
5. YUSCHENKO'S REPRESENTATIVE IN CENTRAL ELECTION
COMMISSION ALLEGES DISTRICT STATE ADMINISTRATIONS
ARE CAMPAIGNING FOR YANUKOVYCH
Andrii Derkach, Ukrainian News, Kyiv, Ukraine, July 15, 2004
6. KHARKIV GOVERNOR KUSHNARIOV PREDICTS THAT
AUTHORITIES WILL USE ADMINISTRATIVE RESOURCES IN
UKRAINE'S UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
"Low political culture and disrespect for law in Ukraine"
Andrii Derkach, Ukrainian News, Kyiv, Ukraine, July 16, 2004
7. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MOROZ BELIEVES UKRAINE'S
GOVERNORS SHOULD BE ELECTED NOT APPOINTED
By Yurii Yeriomin, Ukrainian News, Kyiv, Ukraine, July 16, 2004
8. MOSCOW SPIN DOCTOR SETS UP RUSSIAN CLUB
IN UKRAINE AHEAD OF FALL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 19 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service,UK in English, Monday, Jul 19, 2004
9. OSCE TO SEND LARGE MONITORING GROUP FOR
UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN OCTOBER
By Jan Maksymiuk, RFE/RL Newsline, Part II
Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, July 16, 2004
10. UCCA SEEKS VOLUNTEERS TO SERVE AS INTERNATIONAL
ELECTIONS OBSERVERS FOR UKRAINE'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA)
Washington, D.C., New York, NY, July 2004
11. TAX BREAKS AND OTHER SUPPORT PLANNED TO HELP
DEVELOP THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Russian, 19 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Monday, Jul 19, 2004
12. UKRAINE TO COMPLETE DANUBE CANAL PROJECT SOON
DESPITE WIDESPREAD INTERNATIONAL CRITICISM
TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 19 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Monday, Jul 19, 2004
13. UKRAINE INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE IN KYIV AUGUST 24
Celebrating 13 Years of Independence
Mykola Savchuk, Ukrainian News, Kyiv, Ukraine, July 15, 2004
14. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING FORWARD RUSLAN FEDOTENKO
BRINGS STANLEY CUP TO HIS NATIVE UKRAINE
Associated Press, Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, July 19, 2004
15. DOCTOR AND PLAYWRIGHT ANTON CHEKHOV
INSPIRES AFTER 100 YEARS
The grandson of a serf who bought himself out of slavery and the son
of a Kiev shopkeeper, Chekhov was born on Jan. 29, 1860, a year
before the Emancipation Act, in Taganrog, Ukraine.
By Paul Comrie, Special to the St. Petersburg Times
St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, July 20, 2004
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1. PROFILE OF UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION
HEAD VIKTOR MEDVEDCHUK
BBC Monitoring Research Service, UK, Friday, Jul 16, 2004
Viktor Medvedchuk, the head of the presidential administration and leader
of the United Social Democratic Party (USDP), is a wily lawyer, a skilled
long-term political strategist, and a ruthlessly effective crisis manager.
Widely regarded as one of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in
Ukraine, he is also one of the most controversial.
Demonized by the opposition, Medvedchuk is feared and distrusted by many
of his allies in the pro-presidential camp. Medvedchuk has done little to
dispell his Machiavellian reputation. His influence has at times appeared to
be so great that observers have speculated whether it is really he who is
running the country rather than Kuchma. Some observers have suggested that
President Leonid Kuchma has deliberately exploited his chief-of-staff's
image to divert blame for Ukraine's persistent shortcomings in democratic
development and media freedom.
After he emerged as a powerful player on the domestic political scene in the
late 1990s, Medvedchuk was widely believed to harbour presidential
ambitions. Though he supported Kuchma in his reelection bid in 1999, he
appeared to be preparing the ground to succeed him in the 2004 presidential
election.
However, in recent years - and especially since the poor showing of the
USDP in the 2002 parliamentary election - Medvedchuk appears to have
accepted that he will never win wide popularity and has largely withdrawn
from public politics.
Perhaps in recognition that he will not succeed Kuchma, Medvedchuk has in
the last two years become a strong advocate of the ongoing campaign for
introducing amendments to the constitution that would shift power
substantially from the presidency to the parliament and government.
Medvedchuk currently professes to be a supporter of Viktor Yanukovych's
presidential bid, and the prime minister is receiving fulsome coverage from
the wide range of media outlets that are directly or indirectly under his
control.
EARLY CAREER
Viktor Medvedchuk was born in 1954 in a village in Russia's Krasnoyarsk
Territory. Medvedchuk has said his father was convicted by the Soviets in
1944 for heading the underground Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in
Zhytomyr and settled in Siberia after serving an eight-year prison sentence.
The family resettled in Kiev Region in 1962.
Medvedchuk entered the law faculty of Kiev's Taras Shevchenko University in
1972. He was expelled after an obscure incident in which he was accused of
assault and battery. The charges were later dropped due to lack of corpus
delicti, however, and he was readmitted to the university. He graduated in
1978.
As a young lawyer in Kiev, Medvedchuk was assigned to defend dissidents
including Yuriy Lytvyn and the poet Vasyl Stus. Both men were convicted and
subsequently died in prison. Though the role of the defence in Soviet
political trials was little more than a formality, nationalists and human
rights advocates have continued to reproach Medvedchuk for his involvement
in the cases.
By 1989, Medvedchuk headed the legal consultation department of Kiev's
Shevchenko District. In 1990, he founded the Union of Lawyers of Ukraine,
and was elected its president. In 1992, he founded the
Ukrainian-American-Israeli law firm BIM (reportedly from the names of
Medvedchuk and an Israeli partner, Ben Israel).
Medvedchuk went into business in the early nineties with a group of partners
including the brothers Hryhoriy and Ihor Surkis, and Bohdan Hubskyy (now
deputy leader of the USDP-linked People's Power faction in parliament). The
group, sometimes referred to as the "Kiev clan", was subsequently associated
with the Dynamo Kiev football club, which came under Hryhoriy Surkis'
control in 1993. Medvedchuk provided legal services for the group, which
created a large number of companies including the Slavutych concern and
Ukrainian Credit Bank.
Slavutych made big profits by using foreign bank loans to import petroleum
from Russia and Kazakhstan, process it at Ukrainian refineries and sell the
products on the domestic market. The company was also involved in
agriculture and metals trading. Medvedchuk has said that he was paid for his
services in shares as well as cash.
The group reportedly enjoyed the protection of President Leonid Kravchuk,
who appointed Medvedchuk to head the higher qualification commission for
the legal profession under the cabinet of ministers and made Hryhoriy Surkis
an advisor on economic issues.
The election of Leonid Kuchma as president in 1994 clearly came as an
unpleasant surprise for the group. Kuchma targeted many of Kravchuk's former
favourites including Slavutych, which he criticized for its monopolistic
practices. However, Medvedchuk appears to have defended the company
vigorously, and the ensuing investigation failed to uncover any wrongdoing.
PARTY POLITICIAN
In 1994, Medvedchuk was among the founders of the Human Rights Party. The
following year the party united with Vasyl Onopenko's Social Democratic
Party of Ukraine, one of two parties of that name. The party was renamed the
United Social Democratic Party at its congress in 1996, and Medvedchuk was
elected deputy leader.
Medvedchuk had by this time made his peace with Kuchma, who appointed
him as a non-staff adviser on tax policy. Meanwhile, his younger brother,
Serhiy Medvedchuk, was put in charge of the tax administration in Lviv
Region.
In April 1997, Medvedchuk entered parliament in a by-election in a
constituency in Transcarpathian Region, where he received a record 94 per
cent of the vote. Around the same time, Slavutych was making significant
investments in the region, which subsequently became a USDP stronghold.
Medvedchuk was safely reelected in the March 1998 parliamentary elections,
with an only slightly reduced majority. The USDP fared less well than its
leader, only just managing to scrape over the 4 per cent barrier to enter
parliament with 4.01 per cent of the votes cast for party lists. The party
performed best in Transcarpathian Region, where it gained 31 per cent.
In addition to Medvedchuk and Onopenko, the top five on the USDP list
included former President Leonid Kravchuk, former prime minister and
Security Service (SBU) chief Yevhen Marchuk, and Hryhoriy Surkis.
After a lengthy deadlock between centrist and leftist forces in parliament
over the appointment of a speaker, the USDP broke ranks with its centrist
allies and reached an understanding with the leftists. As a result of this
deal, Peasants Party leader Oleksandr Tkachenko was elected speaker,
Communist Adam Martynyuk his first deputy, and Medvedchuk deputy
speaker.
Later in the year, Medvedchuk took over the leadership of the USDP, after
the party congress ousted Onopenko. Around this time, Medvedchuk set about
developing a social-democratic ideology in a series of newspaper articles.
His book-length publications include "The Spirit and Principles of Social
Democracy: A Ukrainian Perspective" (2000), "A New Dimension in
Democracy" (2001). These efforts failed to convince the Socialist
International, however, which has steadfastly refused to admit the USDP
to its ranks - in spite of what has been described as an intense lobbying
campaign.
At the end of 1998, the cabinet of Valeriy Pustovoytenko gave Ukrainian
Credit Bank, whose board members included Surkis, Medvedchuk and
Hubskyy, the right to manage state shareholdings in a number of companies,
including the Zaporizhzhya Ferroalloys Plant and a number of regional power
distribution companies (oblenerhos). Additional shareholdings in the power
sector were acquired by a number of offshore companies that were
persistently reported to be linked to the USDP leaders, though Medvedchuk
and Surkis have repeatedly denied this.
Ahead of the 1999 presidential election, there was some talk in the USDP of
supporting a presidential bid by Marchuk or by Medvedchuk himself. However,
in April 1999, Medvedchuk declared that the USDP would back Kuchma.
Medvedchuk said Kuchma was implementing a social-democratic programme,
and even speculated that the president might join the party after
reelection.
Meanwhile, Medvedchuk had apparently set his sights on Viktor Yushchenko,
the widely respected head of the National Bank of Ukraine, who was already
being seen as a likely contender for the presidency in 2004. The USDP
initiated the creation of a special parliamentary commission to investigate
Yushchenko's activity at the NBU. But when the commission reported to
parliament in early 1999, its findings were inconclusive.
After Kuchma's reelection, however, Ukraine was facing a default on its
foreign debt, and Medvedchuk and the USDP were reluctantly forced to
support Yushchenko's candidacy for prime minister.
In early 2000, Medvedchuk masterminded the so-called "velvet revolution", in
which the parliament's leftist leadership was deposed and a new centre-right
majority created. The majority ostensibly backed the Yushchenko government.
Medvedchuk became first deputy speaker under Ivan Plyushch.
Throughout 2000, Medvedchuk was openly critical of the government's
activity - in particular, its social policies and the energy sector reforms
of Deputy Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko. These criticisms were echoed in
the USDP-influenced media, in particular the popular Inter TV channel
(controlled by USDP deputy leader Oleksandr Zinchenko), and the newspapers
Kiyevskiye Vedomosti (controlled by Surkis) and Den (controlled by Marchuk).
As the country was rocked by anti-presidential protests during the winter of
2001, Medvedchuk and Working Ukraine leader Serhiy Tyhypko in February
urged Yushchenko to form a coalition government containing representatives
of the majority factions in parliament or face dismissal. Yushchenko
refused, and parliament eventually passed a vote of no confidence in the
Yushchenko government in April 2001. Yushchenko was replaced by Anatoliy
Kinakh, the head of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs who was
widely regarded as loyal to the USDP.
With Plyushch regularly in bad health, Medvedchuk effectively ran the
parliament through most of 2001, pushing through a number of important
pieces of legislation including the land code in the face of fierce
opposition from left-wing factions.
But in December 2001, Medvedchuk himself was unexpectedly deposed by
an alliance of leftists and centre-right supporters of Yushchenko. The
motion for his dismissal, prepared by centre-right forces, criticized him
for - among other things - violating parliamentary procedures. Many
observers saw this as the beginning of the end for the USDP.
This impression appeared to be confirmed by the results of the March 2002
parliamentary elections, in which the USDP failed to make a significant
breakthrough despite strong media support and lavish spending on the
services of domestic and Russian "political technologists", and despite
having built up the best-developed regional structure of any party other
than the Communists. The party received just 6.0 per cent of the party list
vote - a result that must have been particularly galling in the light of the
strong showing of Yushchenko's Our Ukraine bloc.
ADMINISTRATION HEAD
It soon turned out, however, that forecasts of the imminent decline of USDP
power were premature. As opposition and pro-presidential forces strove to
create a stable majority in spring 2002, the USDP faction, beefed up by MPs
from first-past-the-post seats, held the balance of power in parliament.
Medvedchuk exploited this strong bargaining position to the limit, at one
point even threatening to go into opposition. Accordingly, Kuchma appointed
him to head his administration on 12 June.
Medvedchuk's effectiveness as a crisis manager was soon in evidence,
however. In autumn 2002, he faced down Washington over allegations that
Kuchma had sold sensitive radar equipment to Iraq in defiance of UN
sanctions. Around the same time, he dispersed mass demonstrations by the
united leftist and centre-right opposition. He was subsequently able to
weaken the opposition by using the prospect of political reform to split the
Socialists and Communists away from Our Ukraine and the Yuliya
Tymoshenko Bloc.
Perhaps the most notorious feature of Medvedchuk's micro-management style
has been the "temnyky", the guidelines sent out to TV channels and other
media instructing them how to cover the news. These were originally believed
to originate in the information department of the presidential
administration. While a number of second-tier multi-regional TV channels
have shown increasing independence in recent months, the three main TV
channels with nationwide reach - state-owned UT1, and the privately-held
Inter and 1+1 - continue to follow the "temnyky" closely. The "temnyky"
generally include instructions to ignore or disparage the opposition. They
have reportedly also included instructions to ignore statements by foreign
officials and diplomats, and to launch attacks on individuals such as George
Soros.
Medvedchuk's reputation for playing political hardball culminated in the
controversial Mukacheve mayoral election on 18 April 2004, in which a
USDP-backed candidate was declared the winner after a vote marred by
abuses that drew international condemnation.
Medvedchuk has often been seen as an advocate of a pro-Russian foreign
policy. He is said to have enjoyed good personal relations with his Russian
counterpart, Aleksandr Voloshin, who served as Vladimir Putin's chief of
staff until November 2003. Ahead of the 2002 election, Medvedchuk
expressed scepticism over the prospects for Ukraine's further integration
with NATO.
His media regularly publish attacks on Western intervention in Ukraine's
internal affairs. However, the USDP voted with the pro-presidential majority
in May 2004 to keep Ukrainian troops in Iraq.
Medvedchuk's relations with the Donetsk business political clan led by
Yanukovych have often appeared to be tense, and some observers have
continued to doubt the sincerity of his support for the prime minister's
presidential bid.
Medvedchuk's powerful enemies in the pro-presidential camp are also said
to include his predecessor as presidential administration chief, parliament
speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn, and president Kuchma's son-in-law, Viktor
Pinchuk.
In recent months, media influenced by Pinchuk, in particular the ICTV TV
channel, have increasingly been defying the "temnyky". For instance, they
gave favourable coverage to Soros during his visit to Ukraine in March, and
have on occasion aired neutral or sympathetic reports about Yushchenko.
PERSONAL
Medvedchuk has never made a secret of his wealth, but many have speculated
that it is considerably greater than the figures he has disclosed. In 2002,
for instance, the Polish magazine Wprost estimated his net worth at 400m
dollars.
In a rare interview with Korrespondent magazine in June 2004, Medvedchuk
said that he had ended his business activities when he entered politics in
1997, sold all his shares, and banked the proceeds. He said that he now
lives on the interest on his savings, which bring in about 30,000 dollars a
month. He said that in 2003 he declared an income of 3m hryvnyas [560,000
dollars].
In July 2003, Medvedchuk married his long-time girlfriend UT1 anchor Oksana
Marchenko. The couple had a baby daughter in May 2004. Medvedchuk also
has a grown-up daughter from a previous marriage. (END)(ARTUIS)
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2. UKRAINIAN PM YANUKOVICH CALLS ON UKRAINIAN AND
RUSSIAN INDUSTRIALISTS TO UNITE TO PURSUE
COMMON POLICY IN WORLD MARKETS
ITAR-TASS, Moscow, Russia, Monday, July 19, 2004
KIEV - Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich has called on Ukrainian
and Russian industrialists to unite to pursue a common policy in world
markets.
Yanukovich told reporters in Dnepropetrovsk which the Ukrainian premier had
visited on the occasion of Day of Ukrainian Metallurgists on Sunday, that
representatives of Russian and Ukrainian governments were due to meet in the
Crimea to discuss how to switch over from declarations to actions.
"Ukraine has two years in order to radically improve the situation in the
Ukrainian metallurgical industry because a major producer like China will
enter the market in the next two years," Yanukovich stressed. (END)(ARTUIS)
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3. BLAST RIPS THROUGH UKRAINE COAL MINE, KILLS 25
REUTERS, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 20, 2004
KIEV - An explosion ripped through a mine in Ukraine's Donetsk region
killing at least 25 workers hundreds of metres below ground in the country's
biggest mining tragedy in the last two years, the Emergency Ministry said on
Tuesday.
A duty officer at the ministry said 11 miners were trapped deep in the pit
at the Krasnolimanska coal mine in the eastern coal-mining region. Fire
complicates rescuers' work. "Twenty five people are dead. Their bodies are
being recovered now. The rescuers are still looking for 11 coal miners," he
said.
It was the second mining accident at the Krasnolimanska coal pit in the last
three years. In 2001 nine miners were killed. A total of 48 miners were
working in the mine when the explosion occurred late on Monday. The
remaining 12 managed to escape the coal mine.
Mining accidents are frequent in the ex-Soviet state as its mines are
expensive and dangerous to operate but politicians fear even greater social
costs of closing pits which employ about 450,000 at 193 mines in areas with
few other jobs. (END) (ARTUIS)
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4. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO CLIMBS
UKRAINE'S HIGHEST MOUNTAIN HOVERLA
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, in Ukrainian 18 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Monday, July 19 2004
Viktor Yushchenko [leader of the centre-right opposition bloc Our Ukraine]
has climbed the highest mountain in Ukraine, Hoverla [in the Carpathians],
for the thirtieth time in his life. About 2,000 people climbed the mountain
together with Yushchenko. They had been handed plastic bags for refuse.
Climbing Hoverla is not only an environmental event and a good tradition,
Yushchenko said, it is also "a moral and physical test, a chance to feel
each other's shoulders".
Before ascending the mountain, Yushchenko addressed participants in the
event, urging them to "clear Hoverla of rubbish, and then clear Ukraine of
dirt". About 4,000 people took part in the rally at the foot of the
mountain.
[Our Ukraine] MPs [Volodymyr] Stretovych, [Mykola] Martynenko, [Ivan]
Stoyko, Petro Oliynyk, [Vyacheslav] Kyrylenko, Tarasyuk, [Yuriy] Kostenko
and singer Dmytro Hnatyuk climbed the mountain together with Yushchenko.
It took them about two hours to climb the mountain. At the top of the
mountain, Yushchenko was presented with his portrait seared by local
craftsmen onto a piece of wood. Yushchenko was wearing a white T-shirt and
shorts. [Previously, the Green Party criticized Yushchenko for ascending
Hoverla, saying that his supporters leave too much refuse.] (END)
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5. YUSCHENKO'S REPRESENTATIVE IN CENTRAL ELECTION
COMMISSION ALLEGES DISTRICT STATE ADMINISTRATIONS
ARE CAMPAIGNING FOR YANUKOVYCH
Andrii Derkach, Ukrainian News, Kyiv, Ukraine, July 15, 2004
KYIV - The authorized representative of presidential candidate Viktor
Yuschenko in the Central Election Commission, Yurii Kliuchkovskyi, is
alleging that the district state administrations are campaigning for Prime
Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who is a candidate in the Presidential
elections. Kliuchkovskyi made the allegations to Ukrainian News.
In Kliuchkovskyi's words, representatives of the state administrations are
massively campaigning for Yanukovych in the Presidential elections.
Kliuchkovskyi added that the campaigning of officials of the state
administration in Yanukovych's favor is being done in the form of
conferences at enterprises and in the state administrations.
"These are production meetings, meetings in the administrations, meetings
at the enterprises... Where it is clearly said, instruction is given to
collect signatures, to vote (for Yanukovych)," said Kliuchkovskyi.
He added that the Our Ukraine coalition of political parties is now
collecting evidences with respect to the participation of officials of the
regional administrations in campaign efforts for Yanukovych in the
Presidential elections.
Kliuchkovskyi added that Our Ukraine is going to lodge a complaint in
courts against the officials of the state administrations that are
campaigning for Yanukovych.
"We are preparing a serious evidentiary base so as to file complaints to the
court. We will do this - when there will be complaints in the court," said
Kliuchkovskyi said.
As Ukrainian News reported previously, NBU Governor Serhii Tihipko,
who is also the campaign manager for Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's
election bid, has spoken against the use of administrative resource during
the Presidential election campaign.
According to opinion polls, Yuschenko and Yanukovych are ahead in the
presidential race. Presidential election campaigning started in Ukraine on
July 3. The CEC registered Yanukovych and Yuschenko as presidential
candidates on July 6. The Presidential elections will take place on October
31. (END) (ARTUIS)
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6. KHARKIV GOVERNOR KUSHNARIOV PREDICTS THAT
AUTHORITIES WILL USE ADMINISTRATIVE RESOURCES IN
UKRAINE'S UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
"Low political culture and disrespect for law in Ukraine"
Andrii Derkach, Ukrainian News, Kyiv, Ukraine, July 16, 2004
KYIV - Governor of Kharkiv region and chairman of the Kharkiv regional
chapter of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) Yevhen Kushnariov is
predicting that authorities will use their powers in the presidential
election. Kushnariov made this statement to the press on Thursday.
He explained his forecast by low political culture and disrespect for law in
Ukraine. "With no respect to law and proper level of political culture, the
administrative resource will always exist in the struggle for power," he
said.
Kushnariov added that the introduction of the election of governors could
reduce the influence of the authorities on the election process, and
introduction of dual subordination of law enforcement agencies to both
central and local governments might help as well.
The Kharkiv region's Governor believes that electivity of governors and
dual subordination of law enforcement agencies would divide administrative
resources among different political forces.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the field representative office of the
Our Ukraine coalition of political parties in Lviv region on Thursday
accused the State Administration in Lviv region and the district state
administrations of exerting pressure on voters.
On the same day, Kushnariov expressed opposition to nomination of the
current leader of the PDP, Valerii Pustovoitenko, as the party's candidate
in this year's presidential election.
At its congress in July, the PDP decided to support the candidacy of Prime
Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who is the leader of the Party of the Regions,
in the forthcoming presidential election.
In April, the PDP voiced intention to nominate Pustoviotenko to run in the
presidential race. The election campaign in Ukraine started on July 3.
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7. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MOROZ BELIEVES UKRAINE'S
GOVERNORS SHOULD BE ELECTED NOT APPOINTED
By Yurii Yeriomin, Ukrainian News, Kyiv, Ukraine, July 16, 2004
KYIV - Presidential candidate and Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz
favors the direct election of the heads of local authorities, particularly
chairmen of regional administrations. SPU press service informed Ukrainian
News of this statement announced by Moroz at a meeting with voters in
Kirovohrad region.
"The SPU leader is convinced that authorities must be responsible for their
actions to the people. Therefore, it is doomed necessary to introduce a
system of the direct election of the heads of local bodies of power," the
press service said.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Central Election Commission
registered Moroz for the presidential race on July 8. Delegates to the
Socialist Party's congress nominated Moroz as the party's presidential
candidate on July 4. The election campaign in Ukraine started on July 3.
Currently, chairmen of regional and district administrations are appointed
by the President of Ukraine. (END) (ARTUIS)
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FOOTNOTE: One of the major flaws in Ukraine's present system of
government is the fact the 25 regional governors are appointed by the
President instead of being elected directly by the voters in each region.
This of course gives any President far too much power and violates all
the principles of separation of powers, distribution of power, more power
to-the-people, the building of anti-monopolistic systems and the basic
framework guidelines of common sense democratic governmental
structures.
This major flaw in Ukraine's governmental structure contributes heavily
to the present political problems found in Ukraine. What a political and
democratic disaster it would be in the United States if the U.S. President
had the power to appoint all fifty state governors. The same is true for
Ukraine and other countries who allow their president to appoint
regional authorities.
It is hoped that presidential candidate Oleksandr Moroz and others in
Ukraine who advocate the direct election of regional governors will
combine their resources and have this major flaw corrected as soon
as possible. Sooner rather than later for the benefit of Ukraine. (Editor)
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8. MOSCOW SPIN DOCTOR SETS UP RUSSIAN CLUB
IN UKRAINE AHEAD OF FALL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 19 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service,UK in English, Monday, Jul 19, 2004
KIEV - [Presenter] Moscow is not ignoring the situation in Ukraine ahead
of the [presidential] election. A Russian Club has appeared in Kiev today.
That is the name of the Moscow spin doctors' new organization on Ukrainian
territory. The ideologist of the club is Gleb Pavlovskiy, an adviser to the
Russian president's chief of staff [as heard, Pavlovskiy is also president
of the Effective Policy Foundation]. The association will be involved in
political analysis and forecasting.
Meanwhile, a rally called "Get out, foreign spin doctors!" was held near the
building of the UNIAN information agency, where Pavlovskiy's press
conference was taking place. The Sobor party and the Youth is Ukraine's
Hope association are taking part.
[Pavlovskiy, in Russian] The goal of my visit is to prepare for the opening
of the Russian Club. It will open in Kiev tomorrow. It will be a
non-government organization, which will invite various individuals from
Russia - state, non-state, cultural and public figures, who will express
their point of view on various topics.
[Presenter] We do not have any information as to whether Ukrainian clubs
will be opened in Moscow or whether Ukrainian official and non-official
figures, as well as cultural representatives are planning to comment on
events in Russia.
[Ukrainian opposition media have repeatedly suggested that Pavlovskiy is one
of the masterminds behind the dirty tricks campaign to discredit
centre-right opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko.] (END) (ARTUIS)
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9. OSCE TO SEND LARGE MONITORING GROUP FOR
UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN OCTOBER
By Jan Maksymiuk, RFE/RL Newsline, Part II
Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, July 16, 2004
KYIV - The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
will dispatch 650 people to observe the fall presidential election in
Ukraine, Interfax reported on 16 July, quoting OSCE Project Coordinator
in Ukraine David Nicholas.
Nicholas said the overwhelming majority of monitors will arrive in Ukraine
on the eve of election day, while 50 observers will work in Ukraine during
the entire election campaign. (END) (ARTUIS)
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10. UCCA SEEKS VOLUNTEERS TO SERVE AS INTERNATIONAL
ELECTION OBSERVERS FOR UKRAINE'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA)
Washington, D.C., New York, NY, July 2004
WASHINGTON - The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America
(UCCA) is seeking individuals interested in serving as International
Election Observers for Ukraine's upcoming presidential election.
As in previous years, the UCCA will be actively participating in Ukraine's
electoral process by hosing a delegation of International Election
Observers for the October 31, 2004 election.
The UCCA delegation will be registered with Ukraine's Central Election
Commission and each delegate will have the right to act an official
election monitor.
The UCCA will coordinate local travel within Ukraine, arrange for briefing
seminars and provide all the necessary election materials for each election
monitor. However, all expenses related to travel, food and lodging must
be borne by the individuals themselves.
The UCCA is required to register its delegation with the Central Election
Commission, therefore, the deadline for submitting an application to UCCA
is August 31, 2004. More detailed information about UCCA's International
Election Observer program can be found on the UCCA website at
http://www.org/events/elections2004.html.
Anyone interested in serving as an International Election Observer, should
call 212 228 6840 or send an e-mail to ucca@ucca.org, UCCA's office
in New York, to obtain an application packet. (END) (ARTUIS)
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11. UKRAINE TO COMPLETE DANUBE CANAL PROJECT SOON
DESPITE WIDESPREAD INTERNATIONAL CRITICISM
TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 19 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Monday, Jul 19, 2004
KIEV - The dispute over the construction of the Danube-Black Sea shipping
canal by Ukraine is continuing. After criticism of Ukraine's actions by
ecologists, the US government and Europe, the Ukrainian government said that
the international community had been misinformed about what exactly is being
built between the Danube and the Black Sea.
The state wildlife preservation service said that the criticism is linked to
the position of Romania, which has a monopoly status in the Danube delta,
and that money is flowing from Ukraine to Romania.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that Ukraine is simply restoring Danube
shipping routes which existed before the 1950s. Deputy Interior Minister
[Oleksandr] Motsyk said that Ukraine is doing everything to avoid harming
the environment.
The Transport Ministry said today that it wants to complete the first stage
of what it calls the restoration of the Danube canal before Independence
Day, that is 24 August. (END) (ARTUIS)
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12. TAX BREAKS AND OTHER SUPPORT PLANNED TO HELP
DEVELOP THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE AND ENCOURAGE ITS USE
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Russian, 19 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Monday, Jul 19, 2004
KIEV - The Ukrainian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Committee
plans to initiate tax breaks for Ukrainian-language media, as well as film
and audio output.
The need to provide the appropriate support to the draft government
resolution on forming a State Language Policy Department, as well as "draft
proposals on reviving the system of tax breaks and other forms of financial
support for Ukrainian-language printed media and periodical publications",
was highlighted at a board meeting of the broadcasting committee and the
ministries of education and science and of culture and arts.
The committee plans, among other things: to help organize media appearances
by specialists to explain the legal basis for the establishment of Ukrainian
as the state language and to optimize language relations in Ukraine; to help
create and broadcast a series of programmes on the state language and the
traditions of the Ukrainian people and of the ethnic minorities living in
Ukraine; to popularize the best works of national literature; and to
systematically conduct measures to popularize and develop the Ukrainian
language and encourage its use.
Also, the committee plans to prepare an appeal to the Ukrainian Supreme
Council [parliament] on issues of TV and radio broadcasting and on the
introduction of monitoring of the language policy of commercial radio
stations and TV channels with account taken of the quantitative and
qualitative indicators of air time for Ukrainian-language programming when
licensing and distributing frequencies.
It also intends to strengthen control over the observance of budget
legislation in using budget money for measures to develop the Ukrainian
language and encourage its use. The committee notes the need to pass more
measures on Ukrainian-language training for young people in educational
institutions and for government officials in post-graduate education. It
wants to introduce Ukrainian language testing for doctoral candidates, and
include it into the minimum standards for candidacies.
The committee will conduct an active policy in supporting the national film
industry, including with proposals to revive tax breaks and other financial
support for Ukrainian-language film and audio output, to systematically
translate global theatre into Ukrainian and to increase the responsibility
of artistic leaders for raising the level of language culture in Ukraine's
theatrical institutions. (END) (ARTUIS)
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13.UKRAINE INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE IN KYIV AUGUST 24
Celebrating 13 Years of Independence
Mykola Savchuk, Ukrainian News, Kyiv, 'Thursday, July 15, 2004
KYIV - A total of 5,381 soldiers from 19 independent battalions will
participate in this year's Independence Day Parade that will proceed along
Khreschatyk Street in Kyiv on August 24 starting from 10:00 in the morning.
The press service of the Defense Ministry disclosed this to Ukrainian News.
The press service said that military equipment will not be involved in the
parade this year, just like it was not last year.
According to the press service, cadets from the Odesa Institute of Land
Troops, the Lviv Military Institute named after Sahaidachnyi, the Kharkiv
Institute of Tank Troops named after the Verkhovna Rada, and the
Sevastopol Naval Institute will participate in the parade.
A spectacular defile show will include 7 army music bands, 4 choruses, a
joint orchestra band made up of 1,000 servicemen from 30 bands of the Armed
Forces and other military formations. About 60 music compositions will be
performed during the parade and a grandiose show of army orchestra bands.
After the troops parade, all orchestra bands will make a chain along
Khreschatyk Street with a 100- to 150-meter intervals between them and will
carry on with the performance. At 16:00, the joint orchestra band under the
baton of Principle Musician of the Armed Forces Volodymyr Derkach will play
in the Pecherskyi district of Kyiv. Its rehearsal is scheduled for July 15.
Every Saturday and Sunday between July 17 and August 24, military bands will
be playing in parades and defile shows in the Central Park of Culture and
Recreation in Kyiv. Performances will be given from 12:00 to 14:00 on July
17, 18, 24, 25, and 31; and at 17:00 on August 7, 8, 14, and 15. Preparation
for the parade will take place every day.
Four general rehearsals are expected to take place on an airstrip belonging
to the state-owned Aviant aircraft factory. Two more general rehearsals will
take place on Khreschatyk Street on days to be determined by the commander
of the Kyiv Garrison. As Ukrainian News earlier reported, last year 3,500
soldiers participated in the Independence Day Parade in Kyiv, and 3,700 took
part in the event in 2002. (END) (ARTUIS)
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14. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING FORWARD RUSLAN FEDOTENKO
BRINGS STANLEY CUP TO HIS NATIVE UKRAINE
Associated Press, Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, July 19, 2004
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Tampa Bay Lightning forward Ruslan Fedotenko
brought the Stanley Cup to his native Ukraine on Monday. In a ceremony
at Kyiv's city hall, Fedotenko said he could not find the right words to
describe how happy he was to bring the famed trophy to his homeland.
"Everyone strives for the most prestigious award," he said, adding that he
will "never forget the moment" when he raised the Cup over his head.
Fedotenko scored both Tampa Bay goals in its 2-1 victory over the
Calgary Flames in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final last month.
Large crowds were expected to gather later Monday in Kyiv's central
Independence Square to celebrate what State Sports Committee chief
Mykola Kostenko called a "historic event in the sports life of Ukraine."
Each player that wins the Cup can have it for two days. (END)
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15. DOCTOR AND PLAYWRIGHT ANTON CHEKHOV
INSPIRES AFTER 100 YEARS
The grandson of a serf who bought himself out of slavery and the son
of a Kiev shopkeeper, Chekhov was born on Jan. 29, 1860, a year
before the Emancipation Act, in Taganrog, Ukraine.
By Paul Comrie, Special to the St. Petersburg Times
St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, July 20, 2004
The 100th anniversary of Anton Chekhov's death on July 14, 1904,
occurred last Wednesday, with barely a mention of this internationally
important writer and playwright.
Nevertheless, more than any other writer, Chekhov is mentioned as
the deciding influence for taking up their pen by many noted authors
living today.
But Chekhov's eminence today belies his relative obscurity at the
time of his death. In 1904, Chekhov was little known to the West and
a careful review of his life proves Chekhov to have been a Russian
writer, first and foremost.
With an eerie sense of foreboding, Chekhov entered and departed from
this world on the cusp of great social upheaval.
His birth and his death were immediately followed by two events that
left Russia forever altered: the emancipation of the serfs in 1861
and the 1905 worker's uprising.
The grandson of a serf who bought himself out of slavery and the son
of a Kiev shopkeeper, Chekhov was born on Jan. 29, 1860, a year
before the Emancipation Act, in Taganrog, Ukraine.
His early years were scarred by his father's violent alcoholism and
religious fanaticism - elements that propelled him towards
scientific objectivity in later life. Despite his father's abusive
drunkenness, his grandfather's social ambitions weren't lost as
Chekhov was afforded the best education rubles could buy. However,
family fortunes took a turn for the worse when Chekhov's father went
bankrupt and the family was forced to flee to Moscow.
In Moscow, Chekhov proved to be of great value to his family by both
qualifying for medical school and adding to his family's income by
moonlighting as a journalist. This divisive role was well suited to
Chekhov's tastes and he seems to have always pursued literature and
art as seriously as his medical career. Chekhov purportedly said in
his later life, "medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my
mistress, and I have remained equally devoted to the two."
Chekhov completed medical school in 1884 and officially practiced
until 1892.
Although he is more widely known as an artist, this period of
scientific study contributed greatly to both his social outlook and
to his creative work. Known for balancing scientific objectivity
with acute psychological intuition, Chekhov developed a six-point
artistic creed with dictums such as "total objectivity," "extreme
brevity" and "compassion." Although he produced several highly
acclaimed short stories it is only later in his dramatic career that
he truly established his reputation as a major literary force.
Unfortunately, Chekhov contracted tuberculosis and this seriously
delayed much of his work. However, despite his continuing health
problems, 1896 saw the first staging of "The Seagull."
With revolutionary technique, the work draws freely from established
genres of humor and tragedy, while confronting the reader with a
complex use of symbolism and irony.
And yet, most unsettling for the 19th century audience was Chekhov's
pioneering dramatic device now termed indirect action - a device
that places the most crucial elements offstage. Critics and audience
members were dumbfounded and outraged alike. One reviewer
wrote, "Chekhov's 'The Seagull"' is a boring, drawn-out thing that
embitters the listener...Chekhov is not a playwright." Furious and
humiliated, Chekhov swore to never stage another play again and
said: "Writing for the theater is like eating cabbage soup from
which a cockroach has just been removed."
However, the most significant stage in Chekhov's artistic career had
just begun. Chekhov was approached by Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
of the revolutionary Moscow Art Theater, or MKhAT, which declared
war on cliché as its primary objective. Convinced that established
theater companies were crude and name heavy, the MKhaT sought new
literary blood to return life to the dramatic arts. Sure of Chekhov's subtle
brilliance, Danchenko and the legendary Konstantin Stanislavsky
convinced the great writer to stage "The Seagull" once more. Under
new direction and a crowd more attuned to Chekhov's new forms,
the play was an instant success.
Despite his increasingly weak health and his exile in Crimea for
pulmonary recuperation, Chekhov followed up on "The Seagull's"
success with his second masterpiece, "Uncle Vanya," in 1900.
Another striking element in the final years of his life: Chekhov
fell in love, at last. Olga Knipper, a beautiful young actress of
the Mohan who had played the heroine in several of his productions,
intoxicated the middle-aged writer and the two subsequently married
in 1901. In spite of his health and Tsarist scrutiny, Chekhov wrote
the third of his four dramatic works, "The Three Sisters."
Chekhov was almost completely debilitated after he suffered a severe
lung haemorrhage - from which he never fully recovered. Perhaps
sensing his imminent death, or the great political unrest amongst
the polarised social classes of imperial Russia, Chekhov penned his
last work, "The Cherry Orchard." The play confronts the death of the
old Russian order under the darkening clouds of a workers' revolt.
It is important to note Chekhov's peasant beginnings and to stress
that he never harbored any romantic notions about life in the
peasant commune - such as Leo Tolstoy did. Yet, as a physician and a
compassionate man, his last work is filled with a complex empathy
for both the waning aristocracy and the working poor.
This complex position seated Chekhov immediately astride the great
class debates of the early 20th century. His work acknowledges
modernity, while bemoaning the loss of the old ways. As the great
Chekhov biographer, Donald Rayfield, asserts, "'The Cherry Orchard'
is an elegy for a lost world, estate and class," a play "that
foretold the events of 1905 with prescient clarity."
As always though, Chekhov's final moments were a careful balance
between the tragic and the banal. Stanislavsky is recorded saying
that Chekhov appeared as a "living corpse" at the staging of his
last work in Moscow in January of 1904. He was suffering
from "irreversible necrosis" of the lungs and was quickly
deteriorating.
In a desperate attempt to save her husband, Knipper took Chekhov
to the Badenweiler health resort in Germany on June 26, 1904 with
the hopes that it might restore his failing lungs. But being a physician
himself, Chekhov knew all too well of his pending death and appeared
fairly resigned to his fate. Early on the morning of July 14, 1904, in
accordance with medical protocol of the day (which demanded a
German physician offer champagne to a colleague when all hope was
gone), Chekhov sat up in bed and said to his wife: "I am dying. I
haven't had champagne for a long time." Chekhov lay down on his
left side and died.
The tragi-comic banality of even his greatest characters cannot
rival Chekhov's return to Russia. His corpse was shipped back in a
green refrigerated rail car, titled: "For the Conveyance of Oysters."
Chekhov was profoundly mourned by his loved ones and the public
alike. Much like his birth before the Emancipation Act, his funeral
just escaped the cataclysmic upheaval of the first revolution of
1905. Chekhov never lived to see the great impact his work would
have on the international stage, but he died drinking champagne and
knowing he'd pronounced as eloquently as any of his contemporaries
on the great events of his time. (END)
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Paul Comrie has written for various student newspapers, including one
at the University of Malta, The Gazette at Dalhousie University and
The Watch at the University of King's College. He is in his fourth year
of a B.A. Honors in English literature and is fascinated with Russian
literature and adventure/travel writing. He has a finished novel, titled,
"Halcyon Days."
LINK: http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/987/news/n_13069.htm
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