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UKRAINE'S "KILLER" COAL MINES
4,276 Miners Have Died in Ukraine Since 1991 Collapse of Soviet Union

" 'What have you done?' one woman cried at the funeral in Dimitrovo,
lashing out at authorities widely seen as the culprits in deadly accidents
in Ukrainian mines, considered to be among the world's most dangerous.

"High concentrations of methane gas, safety violations, rampant negligence,
corruption and obsolete equipment plague the country's mines. Frequent
methane leaks made the Krasnolimanskaya mine one of the most perilous."
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"THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT" Year 04, Number 122
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, FRIDAY, July 23, 2004

-----INDEX OF ARTICLES-----
"Major International News Headlines and Articles"

1.FAMILIES, FRIENDS MOURN VICTIMS OF UKRAINE MINE BLAST
Efrem Lukatsky, AP Worldstream, Dimitrovo,Ukraine, Jul 22, 2004

2. UKRAINE COAL MINE DEATH TRAP FOR AT LEAST 31 MINERS
MINES ARE AMONG THE DEADLIEST IN THE WORLD
Andrew Osborn in Moscow, The Independent
London, United Kingdom, Wednesday, Jul 21, 2004

3. UKRAINE MOURNS PIT BLAST DEATHS
Ukraine has one of the world's worst mining death rates
By Helen Fawkes, BBC NEWS, Donetsk, Ukraine, Wed, July 21, 2004

4. UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER MOURNS MINER'S DEATHS
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, in Ukrainian,22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Thursday, Jul 22, 2004

5. VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO PRESENTED HIS CONDOLENCES TO
THE FAMILIES OF THE LOST UKRAINIAN MINERS
Viktor Yushchenko Website, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 20, 2004

6. CRISIS OF THE UKRAINIAN COAL INDUSTRY AND IMPROPER
SAFETY MEASURES MUST BE MATTER OF PRINCIPAL CONCERN
MP Martynenko demands the dismissal of vice-premier Klyuyev
"Our Ukraine" website, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, July 21, 2004

7. COUNCIL OF EUROPE TO INSPECT CONTROVERSIAL SHIP
CANAL CONSTRUCTION IN THE DANUBE DELTA BY UKRAINE
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Thursday, Jul 22, 2004

8. UKRAINIAN GREENS SAY GOVERNMENT MISINFORMING
OTHER COUNTRIES ABOUT DANUBE CANAL CONSTRUCTION
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, Thursday, Jul 22, 2004

9. UKRAINE ACCUSES ROMANIA OF LEADING A SMEAR
CAMPAIGN AGAINST KIEV'S DANUBE SHIPPING CANAL WORK
Astonished by an unprecedented campaign by Bucharest to mislead
Agence France-Presse (AFP), Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, July 22, 2004

10. UKRAINIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE ACCUSES
U.S. AMBASSADOR OF PRESSURE ON INVESTIGATORS
Interfax, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Jul 22, 2004

11. UKRAINIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT EXPELLED FROM
OUR UKRAINE FACTION OVER XENOPHOBIC SPEECH
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, in Ukrainian 21 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wednesday, Jul 21, 2004

12 UKRAINIAN MP OLEH TYAHNYBOK SAYS HE IS NOT
GOING TO APOLOGIZE FOR HIS CONTROVERSIAL STATEMENTS
UT1, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Thursday, July 22, 2004

13. CRIMEAN TATAR LEADER DENOUNCES VETO OF RIGHTS
RESTORATION LAW FOR THOSE WHO HAD BEEN DEPORTED
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Thursday, Jul 22, 2004

14. MEMBER OF BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY WILL REPRESENT
QUEEN AT CRIMEAN WAR ANNIVERSARY EVENTS IN UKRAINE
Interfax news agency, Moscow, in English, 22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Thursday, Jul 22, 2004

15. UKRAINIAN INTERNATIONAL SOCCER STAR ANDRIY
SHEVCHENKO MARRIES AMERICAN MODEL KRISTEN PAZIK
AP Worldstream, Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jul 21, 2004

16. "TAKE YOUR SPIN DOCTORS, PLEASE"
Russia's latest export to Ukraine: political consultants
ANALYSIS by Julie A. Corwin
RFE/RL Russian Political Weekly, Vol. 4, No. 28
A Weekly Review of News and Analysis of Russian Domestic Politics
RFE/RL Analytical Reports, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, July 22, 2004

17. BERIA: "STALIN'S EXECUTIONER WAS A DOTING LOVER.
HE WANTED ME AS FIRST LADY"
Julius Strauss in Moscow talks to the femme fatale who melted the
heart of Beria, the bloodthirsty secret police chief
By Julius Strauss, The Electronic Telegraph, London, UK, July 22, 2004
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1. FAMILIES, FRIENDS MOURN VICTIMS OF UKRAINE MINE BLAST

Efrem Lukatsky, AP Worldstream, Dimitrovo, Ukraine, Thursday, Jul 22, 2004

DIMITROVO, Ukraine - Hundreds of weeping relatives, friends and colleagues
paid their last respects Thursday at a funerals 15 miners who were among at
least 31 killed in an explosion and fire in a Ukrainian mine.

Several women fainted with grief as coffins were lowered into graves at a
cemetery in the tiny eastern town of Dimitrovo near the Krasnolimanskaya
mine, the site of Monday's powerful methane blast. Flags adorned with black
ribbons were at half-staff, and a brass band played funeral march.

Funerals for another 15 victims were held in other towns near the mine in
the Donestk region, where thousands of people live and die by coal mining.
One body could not be buried because it was burned beyond recognition, and
five miners are missing and presumed dead after the blast.

"What have you done?" one woman cried at the funeral in Dimitrovo, lashing
out at authorities widely seen as the culprits in deadly accidents in
Ukrainian mines, considered to be among the world's most dangerous.

High concentrations of methane gas, safety violations, rampant negligence,
corruption and obsolete equipment plague the country's mines. Frequent
methane leaks made the Krasnolimanskaya mine one of the most perilous.

In an eulogy, Serhiy Kobzarenko, a miner and a relative of Oleksandr
Ostapenko and his 20-year old son Roman _ both killed in the blast _ said
that miners "do dangerous work" and added ominously that "we should be
ready to share the same fate." "Roman was about to get married in August ...
on that day, we will commemorate his death," Kobzarenko said.

A methane gas and coal dust explosion sparked the blaze Monday evening, as
48 Krasnolimanskaya miners were changing shifts nearly 970 meters (3,180
feet) below the surface. Twelve escaped uninjured.

As relatives mourned the dead, dozens of emergency workers braved high
levels of gas and scorching temperatures as they resumed their search for
the bodies of the five missing miners. Officials said it could take three
days for crews to reach the site where the bodies were expected to be,
because the shaft and tunnels at the mine were still extremely hot.

Rescuers "will advance 100 meters (yards) every six hours," Ihor Chichasov,
a spokesman for the regional governor, told reporters. For almost two days
workers pumped massive amounts of water and nitrogen gas to extinguish fires
and to cool the tunnels, allowing search teams to advance, he said. "The
temperature in that area is still high, although it decreased to some 40
degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit)," Chichasov said.

Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych has said the government would set aside
about US$1.1 million in financial aid for victims' families. A top Ukrainian
soccer team from the regional capital, Shakhtar Donetsk, also donated aid
worth some US$300,000.

Yanukovych also vowed that the government would do more to improve safety
in the Ukrainian mines. Since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, 4,276
miners have died in accidents in Ukraine, according to the miners union.
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2. UKRAINE COAL MINE DEATH TRAP FOR AT LEAST 31 MINERS
MINES ARE AMONG THE DEADLIEST IN THE WORLD

Andrew Osborn in Moscow, The Independent
London, United Kingdom, Wednesday, Jul 21, 2004

MOSCOW - AT LEAST 31 coal-miners were killed in an explosion in a
shaft in Ukraine yesterday. The government declared a three-day period
of mourning as rescuers sought five men believed to be trapped deep
underground in a dangerous fog of smoke, methane gas and fire.

Rescuers flooded the shaft with water and nitrogen gas in an attempt to
extinguish the blaze so they could reach the men, as relatives waited at the
pithead. "We still have hope,'' said the mother of one missing man. Twelve
men escaped.

More than 50 rescuers struggled all yesterday with raging fires, high
concentrations of poisonous gases, heavy smoke and temperatures in the
tunnels that reached up to 50C, one rescuer told Associated Press. Officials
say it could take two days to extinguish the fires.

Forty-eight miners were almost 1,000m underground on Monday night at the
notoriously unsafe Krasnolimanskaya mine in Donetsk, in the east, when a
mixture of methane gas and coal-dust spontaneously detonated. It was the
country's worst mining disaster in two years. The Ukrainian Prime Minister,
Viktor Yanukovich, said the government would do all it could to help the
dead men's families as he set off to visit the mine.

"Death has taken from us miners who in these complicated times brought
warmth and light into the homes of millions of compatriots by their heroic
labour," he said. "The warm memory of the dead miners will always remain
in our hearts."

In 2001, nine miners were killed at Krasnolimanskaya pit, one of Ukraine's
most productive, and four more in the following two years. Since Ukraine
became independent in 1991, more than 3,700 Ukrainian miners have lost
their lives in similar accidents. That, say experts, equates to seven dead
miners for every two million tons of coal produced.

Ukraine is among the deadliest places in the world to be a coal-miner, with
75 per cent of its pits being officially classified as dangerous. Outdated
equipment, high concentrations of methane gas and lax safety rules make them
a death trap, and many miners are so poverty-stricken they disable their
methane gas detectors so they will not have to stop work for safety checks.
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3. UKRAINE MOURNS PIT BLAST DEATHS
Ukraine has one of the world's worst mining death rates

By Helen Fawkes, BBC NEWS, Donetsk, Ukraine, Wed, July 21, 2004

DONETSK - Five miners are still missing, presumed dead. Three days of
mourning are being held in Ukraine after a gas explosion at a coal mine in
the Donetsk region. The bodies of 31 men have been recovered while another
five miners are missing, presumed dead.

It is the worst mining disaster for four years in Ukraine, which has one of
the world's worst mining death rates. Severe underfunding and poor safety
in many of the state-run mines have meant that since independence from the
Soviet Union, 3,700 miners have been killed.

Black ribbons were tied to the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag at the
entrance of the Krasnolymans'ka coal mine in the east of the country to mark
the start of formal mourning. Religious icons and candles have also been
left near to the scene of the disaster. While accidents are common here, the
scale of Tuesday's disaster has shocked the mining community in the Donetsk
region.

PROFITABLE MINE

A methane gas explosion ripped through Krasnolyman'ska mine, causing a
fierce fire which is still raging inside the pit. Forty eight miners were in
the area of the blast at the time. The number of dead is 31 but rescuers are
continuing to search for the bodies of the remaining men who are still
missing. Twelve of the miners managed to escape.

This mine is one of Ukraine's most profitable, producing more than 10,000
tons of coal day a day, but it is also considered one of the most dangerous.
The period of mourning is set to last until Friday. During that time the
funerals of the victims will be held. (END) (ARTUIS)
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4. UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER MOURNS MINER'S DEATHS

UNIAN news agency, Kiev, in Ukrainian,22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Thursday, Jul 22, 2004

DYMYTROV, Ukraine - Ukrainian Prime minister Viktor Yanukovych has
said that tragedies similar to the one at the Krasnolymanska mine [on 19
July] should never happen again. Yanukovych was speaking at the Stepove
cemetery in Dymytrov at the funeral of 14 miners killed in the explosion.

"This is what mining is like. We should confront it with our professionalism
so that tragedies like this never happen again," the prime minister said.
Burying the 14 miners today, all of the mining region and all of Ukraine is
mourning together with their relatives, he said. He added that the
government would do all it can to alleviate the pain and distress of their
families. [Passage omitted: names of the 14 miners]

Another 16 miners were buried at four other cemeteries in the region. As
UNIAN reported earlier, 31 miners were killed in the explosion at the
Krasnolymanska mine on 19 July evening, five are believed missing and one
miner's body could not be identified. (END) (ARTUIS)
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FOOTNOTE: PM Yanukovych has said "such tragedies...should never
happen again." Unfortunately these same words have been used many
times before in the past 13 years by top Ukrainian authorities when miners
were killed in coal mine accidents. The exploitation by the Ukrainian
government of its coal miners borders on criminal activity.

The same words, 'such tragedies...should never happen again" have also
been used many times by world leaders right after another major "genocide"
has occurred and the world's leaders once again failed to act and hundreds
of thousands or millions of lives were lost. (Editor)
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5. VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO PRESENTED HIS CONDOLENCES TO
THE FAMILIES OF THE LOST UKRAINIAN MINERS

Viktor Yushchenko Website, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 20, 2004

KYIV - Victor Yushchenko presented his condolences to the families of
miners, perished at the "Krasnolymanska" mine.

Yushchenko charged his team member, first deputy chief of fuel-energy
complex committee, Mykola Martynenko with forming up immediately a
working group to design a range of additional safety measures for the coal
enterprises. Martynenko will have to report Yushchenko on this issue,
putting clear propositions, in two weeks.

Answering journalists' questions, Yushchenko stated that Yanukovych's visit
to Donbas region must not be regarded in the election context. "As a Prime
Minister Yanukovych ought to go there," Yushchenko reported, adding that
being a premier he had had to make "such sorrowful visits to regions' too.
(www.yuschenko.com.ua) (END) (ARTUIS)
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6. CRISIS OF THE UKRAINIAN COAL INDUSTRY AND IMPROPER
SAFETY MEASURES MUST BE MATTER OF PRINCIPAL CONCERN
MP Martynenko demands the dismissal of vice-premier Klyuyev

"Our Ukraine" website, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, July 21, 2004

KYIV - "Our Ukraine" faction member and first deputy chief of fuel-energy
complex committee, Mykola Martynenko, is convinced that "President must
dismiss the government member Yanukovych and the vice-premier Andriy
Klyuyev, responsible for the fuel-energy complex and coal industry
particularly."

According to Martynenko, the crisis of the coal industry and improper safety
measures at mines are to be a matter of principal concern for the
government. "Klyuyev cannot be a voluntary vice-premier, trying to combine
his government activity with that at Yanukovych's election headquarters and
his vacation."

"Klyuyev had enough time to decide between the work at the Cabinet and
participation in Yanukovych's election campaign. It is obvious that Klyuyev
has made his choice and now he is working for the pro-authoritative
candidate, his boss, primarily. Such behavior of an official is immoral,"
Martynenko underlined.

"Yanukovych and Klyuyev are to account for the tragedy at the
"Krasnolymanska" mine. It goes without saying that Yanukovych won't
dismiss his team member. This is our president who must make the right
decision," believes the people's deputy.

Martynenko pointed out that the "Krasnolymanska" mine tragedy is not
just the accident, but this is a logical result of "inefficient and
unsystematic activity of Yanukovych's regime."

"Unfortunately, officials got used to the standard scheme. So in the event
of the mine accident authorities appoint a government commission and render
assistance to the families of the lost miners, failing to learn a lesson
from it. And miners perish time and again. This accidents will reoccur if
our government fails to take effective safety measures," noted Martynenko.

On 20 July, upon the «Krasnolymanska» mine accident, Victor Yushchenko
charged his team member, first deputy chief of fuel-energy complex
committee, Mykola Martynenko with forming up immediately a working group
to design a range of additional safety measures for the coal enterprises.
Martynenko will have to report Yushchenko on this issue, putting clear
propositions in two weeks.

At the same time Yushchenko commissioned Petro Poroshenko, head of the
Verkhovna Rada budget committee, with examining the efficiency of the public
funds use, directed at the coal industry development and introduction of
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7. COUNCIL OF EUROPE TO INSPECT CONTROVERSIAL SHIP
CANAL CONSTRUCTION IN THE DANUBE DELTA BY UKRAINE

UNIAN news agency, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Thursday, Jul 22, 2004

KIEV -A delegation of the Council of Europe's Bern Convention on the
Conservation of European Wildlife will visit Ukraine on 22-25 July to
inspect the construction of a controversial ship canal in the Danube delta
by the Ukrainian authorities.

The delegation will be led by the head of Natural Heritage and Biological
Diversity Directorate of the Council of Europe and secretary of the standing
committee of the Bern convention, Eladio Fernandez-Galiano.

The European Union asked Ukraine earlier to stop work on the canal until the
environmental impact could be assessed. (END) (ARTUIS)
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8. UKRAINIAN GREENS SAY GOVERNMENT MISINFORMING
OTHER COUNTRIES ABOUT DANUBE CANAL CONSTRUCTION

Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, Thursday,, Jul 22, 2004

KIEV - Ukraine is misinforming other countries and the international
community on the construction of the Danube-Black Sea canal, the Ukrainian
coalition For Wild Nature has said.

"In response to official protests (against the canal construction -
Interfax) the Ukrainian authorities have resorted to blatant disinformation
about their actions," the coalition's statement said.

Ukrainian officials "have said on many occasions that Ukraine is not
building a new shipping canal in the Bystroye arm but restoring the one that
existed before", which is "entirely untrue, as there has never been a
shipping canal in Bystroye. Neither before 1956 nor at the beginning of the
1990s did ships ever travel there, except for fishing boats with the draft
of 1.5-2 metres." [Passage omitted: The coalition lists international
agreements on the protection of the Danube delta]

In addition, "it has been said on many occasions that protests against the
construction in the Bystroye arm violate Ukraine's right to restore
navigation on its sovereign territory," but "these statements are groundless
because Bystroye is not the only option, as economically and ecologically
justified alternatives exist, such as through the Stentsivsko-Zhebriyanska
ridge or the Ochakiv arm."

The coalition For Wild Nature says that the construction threatens the
environmental balance in the Danube delta and "leads to destruction of the
natural territory which is unique on the world scale". (END) (ARTUIS)
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9. UKRAINE ACCUSES ROMANIA OF LEADING A SMEAR
CAMPAIGN AGAINST KIEV'S DANUBE SHIPPING CANAL WORK
Astonished by an unprecedented campaign by Bucharest to mislead

Agence France-Presse (AFP), Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, July 22, 2004

KIEV - Ukraine on Thursday accused Romania of leading a smear
campaign against Kiev's construction of a key shipping canal in the
Danube delta in an escalating dispute over the UNESCO-protected
environment.

The Ukrainian foreign ministry, in response to a statement by its
Romanian counterpart, said it was "astonished" by an "unprecedented
campaign by Bucharest to mislead the international community and
discredit the decision by Kiev" to build the canal.

Romania had accused Ukraine Wednesday of failing to provide key
information about the impact of the ship canal through the protected
Danube delta, which it believes will cause significant environmental
damage.

Although the European Union has called on Ukraine to halt work on
the canal, the Romanian foreign ministry said Kiev was refusing to
hand over studies showing what impact the proposed canal would have
on the delta, which contains some of the world's most important
wetlands and bird sanctuaries.

A statement issued Wednesday by the Romanian foreign ministry on
talks held in Kiev Tuesday said the discussions had lacked substance
due to the lack of information.

In response, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said in a statement
Thursday that Romania "was misrepresenting" the outcome of the talks
and insisted that Kiev had provided the project documents to
Bucharest.

"We did that of our own free will since we still haven't received
from the Romanian side the list of questions for which we wanted
answers," said Leonid Ossavoliuk, a foreign ministry official said.

Ukraine will soon provide Romania with the technical data on the
canal and its environmental assessment, according to an agreement
reached Tuesday, the Ukrainian foreign ministry added Thursday.

The head of the Romanian delegation to Tuesday's talks, Cosmin
Dinescu, has urged the creation of an international expert
investigation of the planned canal's impact on the environment.

The canal, which will give Ukraine a navigable route to the Black
Sea from the Danube, is scheduled to go into operation by the end of
this year, although construction work will last until 2008.

The Danube delta, which is shared by Ukraine and Romania, was placed
on the list of World Heritage sites by the UN Educational Scientific
and Cultural Organization in 1991. About 90 species of fish and 300
bird varieties are found in the delta, some of them rare or
threatened. (END ) (ARTUIS)
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10. UKRAINIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE ACCUSES
U.S. AMBASSADOR OF PRESSURE ON INVESTIGATORS

Interfax, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Jul 22, 2004

KYIV - Ukraine's top prosecution office has described statements on the
Volya-Kabel Company made by U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, John Herbst,
as an attempt to interfere with Ukrainian police work.

The ambassador confirmed what the company heads had tried to reject in their
statements - that American citizens did fund Volya and feared for their
investments, according to a statement from the Prosecutor General's Office.

"American citizens invested in the Volya-Kabel Company and expected large
dividends. Now they fear that their plans may be ruined. This explains the
artificial escalation of tension in the criminal case against the
Volya-Kabel executives and attempts to give political coloring to the purely
criminal case of pornography distribution and breach of the Law on the
Protection of Public Morality," the statement read.

"Mr. Ambassador threatens Ukraine that it will have no investments. Yet do
we need investments for distribution of pornography and undermining public
morality?" the Prosecutor General's Office said.

Herbst said on July 21 that pressure on the Volya-Kabel cable television
operator in Kyiv might affect foreign investments in Ukraine. He said that
the company was under very unusual pressure from the authorities.

American funds, which pool money of individuals and invest it in various
ventures, are the investors of Volya, he said. Such forms of investments are
rare in Ukraine but common in the United States, and it is very important
for everyone to see the efficiency of such funds for drawing investments, he
said.

Prosecutors of the Kyiv Dniprovsky district accuse the Volya executives of
pornography distribution, breach of license terms and money laundering.
Volya Director Serhiy Boyko was detained on June 27, and his deputy Valeriy
Salyamov was apprehended on June 29. The court authorized their arrest on
June 30, and the Kyiv Appellate Court released them on July 7.

Volya-Kabel has about 520,000 subscribers in Kyiv (about 80% of total
number). The Sigma Investment Group, Ukrainian partner of the SigmaBleyzer
Private International Investment Company, controls Volya- Kabel. Volya-Kabel
was established in 2000 after Sigma bought IVK and KTM, two leading cable
television operators. (END) (ARTUIS)
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11. UKRAINIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT EXPELLED FROM
OUR UKRAINE FACTION OVER XENOPHOBIC SPEECH

Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, in Ukrainian 21 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wednesday, Jul 21, 2004

KIEV - The centre-right opposition Our Ukraine faction has expelled an MP
who called on Ukrainian patriots to resist the "Russian-Jewish mafia" that
he said rules the country and to "give Ukraine back to the Ukrainians". Our
Ukraine leader Viktor Yushchenko distanced himself and his bloc from the
xenophobic remarks that Oleh Tyahnybok, the leader of the far-right Svoboda
(Liberty) association (formerly the Social-National Party), made at a
nationalist rally in western Ukraine on 17 July. A video of the speech was
shown on the pro-presidential Inter TV on 19 July.

The following is the text of a report by Ukrainian Ukrayinska Pravda web
site on 21 July:

Viktor Yushchenko, leader of the Our Ukraine faction, has announced the
expulsion of Oleh Tyahnybok from the faction. Yushchenko took this decision
after the coordinating council of the Syla Narodu [People's Strength]
coalition discussed Tyahnybok's speech in Ivano-Frankivsk Region,
Yushchenko's personal site reported. The coordinating council decided the
speech was damaging to the image of democratic forces.

Yushchenko said that he was categorically opposed to the incitement of
interethnic hostility, the exploitation of interethnic issues in politics,
anti-Semitism and xenophobia. "A Ukrainian patriot is not synonymous with
the word xenophobe," he said. Yushchenko said, "The issue of interethnic
relations is extremely delicate, especially in the context of Ukraine's
dramatic history."

"It is necessary to be cautious and balanced in everything that concerns
this topic. It is necessary to remember that we live in the third millenium,
the philosophy of which is political correctness, respect for individuals,
and interethnic and interconfessional tolerance. We are for the unity of the
Ukrainian people. Now is the time to bring together, not to divide,"
Yushchenko said.

[Ukrayinska Pravda reported earlier on 21 July that Tyahnybok had issued a
statement in which he said that the views expressed in his speech did not
reflect those of the Our Ukraine bloc. He said: "In my speech I was only
pointing to the difficult and tragic pages of Ukrainian history, which speak
of terrible examples of the destruction of the Ukrainian people by
German-Fascist and Russian-Bolshevik invaders, and also to the lack of
principle of today's sell-out authorities. If this historical truth offended
anyone, I regret it."] (END) (ARTUIS)
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or foreigners or anything that is strange of foreign.
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12. UKRAINIAN MP OLEH TYAHNYBOK SAYS HE IS NOT
GOING TO APOLOGIZE FOR HIS CONTROVERSIAL STATEMENTS

UT1, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Thursday, July 22, 2004

[Presenter] MP Oleh Tyahnybok has said that he is not going to apologize for
his xenophobic statements and that he will continue supporting [centre-right
opposition bloc Our Ukraine leader] Viktor Yushchenko. He will do this
despite being expelled from the Our Ukraine faction.

[Correspondent] Tyahnybok said that as a non-aligned MP he would continue
supporting Viktor Yushchenko, because the all-Ukrainian [right-wing]
association Svoboda, of which Tyahnybok is the leader, had decided to
support this presidential candidate.

Tyahnybok believes that his expulsion from the faction will not make the
association reverse its decision. He noted that he was calm about joining
non-aligned MPs.

[Tyahnybok] I'm calm about this. I was expelled from the Our Ukraine
faction because of my views. I do not change them, and they do not
depend on any changes or situations.

[Correspondent] The MP does not think he has anything to apologize for
to ethnic minorities in Ukraine. He is sure that the State Committee for
Nationalities and Migration had no grounds to complain to the
Prosecutor-General's Office about his statements.

[Tyahnybok] There are absolutely no legal, moral or any other grounds [for
this]. I can say that I did not offend anyone at all. What I said were
absolutely obvious things. To start saying sorry or making any trouble today
because I stated historical facts, because I spoke about aggressors who
wanted to occupy the Ukrainian state, trampled on the Ukrainian soil and
destroyed the Ukrainian nation [changes tack] We have to call a spade a
spade.

[Correspondent] Tyahnybok made the statements which cost him his place in
the faction on mount Yavoryna on 17 July, standing next to the grave of
Ukrainian Insurgent Army commander Klym Savur. He was addressing a
traditional singing festival commemorating warriors of the Organization of
Ukrainian Nationalists - the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Other Our Ukraine
MPs, like Viktor Yushchenko's brother Petro, also attended the event.

Addressing the rally, Oleh Tyahnybok said that Ukraine should be given
back to Ukrainians, and urged the fight against the Russky-Yid Mafia.

The head of the State Committee for Nationalities and Migration, Henadiy
Moskal, commented on this situation today.

[Moskal] We complained to the Prosecutor-General's Office today, and
we will complain to the Justice Ministry. The party or the association which
he heads must disband itself because of these statements.

These are unacceptable things to say for an ordinary citizen, let alone a
Ukrainian MP. In any democratic country, this would have led to more than
just his expulsion from the faction. This could have caused a serious
parliamentary crisis. The parliament which included this MP would possibly
have been forced out of the political arena.

[Correspondent] Let me recall that the Crimean Communist leader, [MP] Leonid
Hrach, said that expelling Tyahnybok from the Our Ukraine faction does not
prove that Yushchenko himself does oppose the ideology of anti-Semitism and
aggressive nationalism. Another organizer of and participant in the Yavoryna
rally, Viktor Yushchenko's brother Petro, remains unpunished, Hrach said.
The Communist Party of Ukraine has supported this statement, demanding an
immediate end to the inciting of ethnic strife.

[Video shows Tyahnybok, Moskal interviewed; Tyahnybok making an emotional
address at a rally, with Yushchenko campaign logos in the background. A very
similar report, including the interviews with Tyahnybok and Moskal, and the
Communists' reaction, was also broadcast by Inter TV, a channel associated
with presidential administration chief Viktor Medvedchuk, at 1700 gmt on 22
July. Audio and video available. Please send queries to
kiev.bbcm@mon.bbc.co.uk.] (END) (ARTUIS)
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13. CRIMEAN TATAR LEADER DENOUNCES VETO OF RIGHTS
RESTORATION LAW FOR THOSE WHO HAD BEEN DEPORTED

UNIAN news agency, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Thursday, Jul 22, 2004

KIEV - The first deputy speaker of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people,
Ukrainian [opposition Our Ukraine] MP Refat Chubarov, thinks that most of
the objections that the Ukrainian Presidential Administration has made to
the law to restore rights to persons deported for the national identity are
groundless. Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma vetoed the law on the basis
of the objections.

[Passage omitted: Chubarov told Deutsche Welle that most Crimean Tatars
regard the objections as pedantic and based in fact on concerns about
Crimean Tatars' land demands. He doubts that the law will be reviewed before
the presidential elections in October]

UNIAN reports that President Kuchma returned the Law of Ukraine "On
the restoration of rights to persons deported due to their ethnic group" to
parliament on 19 July with his own recommendations.

The Law recognized the status of persons deported for their national
identity, and established state guarantees for the restoration of their
rights, the principles of state policy and the power of state agencies and
local government to restore rights to these persons.

The Law requires the recognition of people from among the deported Crimean
Tatar people who were subjected to forced migration, that is who were
deported without exception from their places of permanent residence and who
obtained Ukrainian citizenship; and members of national minorities who were
forcibly deported from their places of permanent residence from all or part
of Ukraine, and who have acquired Ukrainian citizenship. [For parliament's
approval of the law, see Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian 1309
gmt 24 Jun 04] (END) (ARTUIS)
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14. MEMBER OF BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY WILL REPRESENT
QUEEN AT CRIMEAN WAR ANNIVERSARY EVENTS IN UKRAINE

Interfax news agency, Moscow, in English, 22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Thursday, Jul 22, 2004

SIMFEROPOL - A member of the British royal family, Prince Michael of
Kent, will represent the Queen at events in Sevastopol on 9-10 September
to mark the 150th anniversary of the Crimean War, Volodymyr Kazarin, a
deputy prime minister of the Ukrainian autonomous republic of Crimea, told
a meeting of the working group organizing the event.

Participants in the events will include Lord Cardigan, a descendant of the
British cavalry commander who fought in the Battle of Balaclava, he said.

Members of other well-known British families whose ancestors were involved
in the Crimean War will also come to the commemoration, Kazarin said.
Work is nearly finished on restoring all Crimean War memorials and
cemeteries, which include British, French, Italian, and Turkish monuments,
he said.

Russia fought a coalition comprised of Britain, France, Turkey and Sardinia
during the Crimean War of 1853-56. (END) (ARTUIS)
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15. UKRAINIAN INTERNATIONAL SOCCER STAR ANDRIY
SHEVCHENKO MARRIES AMERICAN MODEL KRISTEN PAZIK

AP Worldstream, Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jul 21, 2004

KIEV - Ukrainian soccer star Andriy Shevchenko has married American
model Kristen Pazik, a Ukrainian news agency reported Wednesday.

Shevchenko and Pazik, who married last week in Washington, are also
expecting a baby, the UNIAN agency said.

Shevchenko, the top scorer in Italy's Serie A last season with 24 goals,
signed a three-year extension to his contract with AC Milan in May and is
expected to remain with the club until 2009. (END) (ARTUIS)
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16. "TAKE YOUR SPIN DOCTORS, PLEASE"
Russia's latest export to Ukraine: political consultants

ANALYSIS by Julie A. Corwin
RFE/RL Russian Political Weekly, Vol. 4, No. 28
A Weekly Review of News and Analysis of Russian Domestic Politics
RFE/RL Analytical Reports, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, July 22, 2004

Russia and Ukraine have generally maintained a healthy
cross-border trade, but in the run-up to the 31 October Ukrainian
presidential elections, some Ukrainians are questioning whether they
really want Russia's latest export: political consultants. On 19
July, youth activists rallied in Kyiv outside a building where
Effective Politics Foundation head Gleb Pavlovskii was holding a
press conference, TV 5 in Kyiv reported. A week earlier, almost two
dozen activists from the Youth -- The Hope of Ukraine organization
picketed the Russian Embassy in Kyiv to demand that Moscow not
interfere in the presidential race, bearing signs saying "Russian
Political Consultants: Suitcase, Train Station, Russia!," utro.ru
reported on 12 July.

The picketers also demanded that the Ukrainian authorities
expel Russian consultants -- particularly Marat Gelman. Gelman, a
former deputy general director at ORT, most recently organized the
surprisingly successful election effort of the Motherland party in
Russia's 2003 State Duma race. Pavlovskii is perhaps best known
for his role in shaping Unity's message during the State Duma
elections in 1999. He has also taken credit for creating Vladimir
Putin's image. Another Russian political consultant who is
sparking interest in Ukraine is Igor Shuvalov (not to be confused
with Russian presidential aide Igor Shuvalov). Consultant Shuvalov is
better known in Ukraine than in Russia and works for the Ukrainian
presidential administration. Shuvalov has reportedly authored many of
the "temnyky," or secret written instructions, issued by the
presidential administration to media outlets regarding their coverage
-- or noncoverage -- of certain news events. In addition, according
to opposition website "Ukrayinska pravda" on 16 June (see "RFE/RL
Newsline," 17 October 2002). A Ukrainian branch of Pavlovskii's
Effective Politics Foundation has also reportedly played a key role
in the invention and distribution of temnyky.

The October ballot is not the first Ukrainian election in
which Russian spin doctors have taken part. They had a relatively
high profile during the 2002 campaign for the Verkhovna Rada,
although some Ukrainian political activists have questioned their
effectiveness in that race. In an interview with "Kommersant-Daily"
on 5 July, Our Ukraine lawmaker Mykola Tomenko said that Gelman
worked for the pro-government Social Democratic Party-united (SPDU-o)
during the 2002 race. Gelman and Pavlovskii, according to Tomenko,
promised that they would secure 10 percent of the total votes for
SDPU-o but managed to get only 6.3 percent. Shuvalov, together with
Petr Shchedrovitskii, worked on the campaign for Winter Crop
Generation, which finished with even just 2.02 percent of the vote,
according to "Ukrayinska pravda" on 16 June. Shchedrovitskii is
perhaps best known for his work consulting presidential envoy to the
Volga Federal District and former co-leader of the Union of Rightist
Forces (SPS) Sergei Kirienko.

In this year's presidential election, the top contenders
are Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and Our Ukraine leader Viktor
Yushchenko. Gelman, Pavlovskii, and Shuvalov are all reportedly
working for Yanukovych. In a press conference in Moscow on 1 July,
Pavlovskii denied that he is working for any candidate in Ukraine.
However, he severely criticized Yushchenko in remarks that were
picked up by a variety of Russian and Ukrainian media outlets. He
said that a "victory for Yushchenko could be seen as a victory for
Western Ukraine over Eastern Ukraine, something that is dangerous for
the country itself," "Nezavisimaya gazeta" reported on 2 July.
Pavlovskii added that if Russia wants to see chaos in the former
Soviet Union, then it should back Yushchenko, "a weak man and a
politician who is being controlled, who is lacking in independence
and who will take society toward disintegration, first politically,
and then perhaps, territorially."

In an interview with Hromadske Radio in Kyiv on 19 May,
Gelman too denied that he is working as anything other than an
art-gallery owner during his stay in the Ukrainian capital. However
he, like Pavlovskii, has an opinion about the race. He said that "my
personal position is that if Yushchenko becomes president, I will
consider it a personal defeat. But I have no clients here." Later in
the same interview, when queried about the poor performance of his
clients in the 2002 elections, Gelman insisted that "the
customer-contractor relationship is very intimate one, and
conclusions about whether a political consultant has fulfilled his
task can be drawn based on whether he continues his relationship with
his clients. I can state in this respect that I have not lost any
major clients either in Russia or here in Ukraine." Therefore, if
Viktor Medvedchuk, SPDU-o leader and presidential-administration
chief, can be considered "major," then apparently Gelman still works
for him.

Despite their denials, the perception that Gelman and
Pavlovskii are involved in the election persists. In an interview
with RBK on 5 July, Kirill Frolov, director of the Ukraine department
at the Institute for CIS Countries, went so far as to characterize
Gelman's strategy for Yanukovych. He said that Gelman is
rejecting the use of the resources of the Russian Orthodox Church in
the campaign and is instead trying to create a "carnival-like"
atmosphere.

Yushchenko's supporters have accused Gelman and
Pavlovskii of using "black public relations" against Yushchenko. In
comments published by Ekspert-tsentr on 5 July, Tomenko implied that
Yanukovych's campaign is using "unprincipled methods" against
Yushchenko. He noted the broken windows at the Russian Cultural
Center in Lviv and the meetings of Ukrainian National
Assembly-Ukrainian National Self-Defense (UNA-UNSO) where fascist
symbols were used in support of Yushchenko. An article in "Moskovskii
komsomolets" on 16 July linked a public rally held by the
ultranationalist Ukrainian National Assembly in Kyiv's central
square with Yanukovych's headquarters and with Pavlovskii and
Gelman in particular, calling the gathering "Gelmanjudend." The
daily, which cited no sources, commented: "The question is: Why
should a democratically minded, pan-national candidate initiate such
a threat, when only a silovik no one currently knows can benefit?
There is absolutely no sense in it."

It should perhaps be noted that consultants sometimes will
not only orchestrate an public event, but will also arrange to have
articles published about it, and they will sometimes arrange for a
trick against their own candidate that can be blamed on the campaign
of the opposition or be used to generate voter sympathy.
It could be argued that the protests against the Russian spin
doctors help rather than hurt their cause, since presumably no one
would object to their presence if they were completely ineffectual.
In comments to "Politicheskii zhurnal," No. 24, Andrei Konovalov,
president of the Institute for Strategic Evaluations and Analysis,
joined his Ukrainian counterparts in criticizing the presence of
Gelman, Pavlovskii, and others, saying that all they can create are
"provocations."

Konovalov concluded that regardless of whether Yanukovych or
Yushchenko is elected president, the general direction of Ukraine
will be the same: toward the West. "The basic tendency of foreign
policy in Ukraine is a movement toward the West, a striving for
integration into European structures and NATO," he said. "Whoever
wins the election, this situation will not change." Vladimir
Zharikhin, deputy director of the Institute for CIS Countries,
agreed, noting that the fundamental relationship between Russia and
Ukraine will not change "cardinally" under either candidate. "In the
end, the Donetsk group, to which Yanukovych belongs, has its own
interests which frequently diverge from those of Russian businesses,"
he added.

To combat Ukraine's drift toward the West, Konovalov
suggests that rather than importing Russian "political technologies,"
Russian enterprises should engage in a gradual but relentless
penetration of Ukraine's energy complex, so that "Russian
businesses control the Ukrainian economy." It is possible that
Konovalov's suggested strategy is already being implemented, and
the push to elect Yanukovych is simply a supplementary effort rather
than a competing one. (http://www.rferl.org/reports/rpw/) (END)
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16. BERIA: "STALIN'S EXECUTIONER WAS A DOTING LOVER.
HE WANTED ME AS FIRST LADY"

Julius Strauss in Moscow talks to the femme fatale who melted the
heart of Beria, the bloodthirsty secret police chief

By Julius Strauss, The Telegraph, London, UK, Thursday, July 22, 2004

Julius Strauss in Moscow talks to the femme fatale who melted the heart of
Beria, the bloodthirsty secret police chief

She was a young woman from the Russian countryside with a fine singing
voice and exceptional looks. He was Stalin's portly and malevolent
executioner responsible for the deaths of millions of innocents.

More than 50 years ago they began a perverse and, for her part, unwanted
relationship that turned the serial rapist and murderer into a doting and
tender lover.

Such was his passion for her that he even groomed her as the future Soviet
First Lady to stand alongside him once Stalin died, a glamorous beauty to
rival the likes of Jackie Kennedy.

Nina Alekseyeva's tragic trajectory to fame was only cut short when
Lavrenty Beria, who oversaw Stalin's infamous gulags, was outsmarted by
Nikita Khrushchev, summarily tried and shot.

Today Nina Alekseyeva lives in a drab flat on the edge of Moscow. Now
87, she is still gently flirtatious and applies her lipstick and rouge with
great care.

Surrounded by plastic flowers, a large doll and old poetry manuscripts and
wearing a red silk scarf, she agreed to give a rare interview about her
time as the femme fatale of 1950s Moscow and her role as the last and most
treasured lover of one of Soviet history's most reviled men.

"I had so many men that courted me," she said with a twinkle in her eye. "I
broke so many hearts. Don't look at me today, look at the photographs of
me - how beautiful I was.

"Beria was really in love with me. He treated me like his wife. He wanted
to introduce me to Stalin who was getting very old by then. He wanted me
to be his first lady."

Like many contemporary Russians, Nina Alekseyeva's life moved at the
whim of the shifting political tides. She was forced to take part in young
communist raids on kulaks - peasants who had more than what was
considered their fair share of wealth - an experience that left her
disgusted with the system.

In 1932 the family moved to a small, damp, windowless room in Moscow
in a communal flat. She lived with her husband, two children, nanny, parents
and brother for a short while, before divorcing.

She enrolled at the Moscow conservatory. When Beria ordered the NKVD,
the brutal Soviet security apparatus, to set up a choir she was put forward
by her music teacher.

During the war, Nina Alekseyeva toured the front with the choir, later
returning to Moscow, where she fell in love with a naval officer who
proposed marriage.

Then one day as she was working at the Radio Committee opposite Beria's
sprawling house in central Moscow, he saw her from the window.

She said: "At first he did nothing. Then one day he sent his henchman
around. It was the man who used to pick up women for him. Of course I
knew about the women he had killed, everyone did."

During his tenure as NKVD chief, as well as his many other crimes, Beria
was reported to have raped and killed dozens of young women, whose
bodies were buried under the building and in the grounds around. Some
accounts had Beria and his guards gang-raping girls barely in to their
teens.

Nina Alekseyeva said: "When the limousine arrived, I was terrified. That
very first day he went to bed with me. When we were there I could hear
the guards coughing next door and I thought, 'Oh no! When we're finished
they're all going to have me.' Beria and I stood in front of the mirror
looking at each other and I thought, 'This is it - my life is over.

"But then he was so tender and told me about himself. He asked what films
I liked. He asked about my life. He wasn't scary, actually he was very
affectionate. He tried to seduce me, giving me gifts. He gave me a huge
heart-shaped box of French perfume. He fed me stuffed partridge.

"But I never liked it. I always wanted it to be over as soon as possible
and I was always a bit scared. One day I was looking for my hairpin in the
bathroom and as I bent down I thought about all the bones hidden behind
the walls." For more than a year Beria sent for her regularly, sometimes
several times a week, even as her husband waited at home. She said: "It
was always in the daytime. At night he worked. They all worked at night
because that was when Stalin worked.

"But I know I made him happy. He always smiled. He used to take me by
both hands and say, 'I'm so happy you've come.' I can't say I enjoyed it
though. If it wasn't Beria, I would have been very nasty."

In 1953 Stalin died. Beria was arrested soon after. "I felt sorry in a
way," she said. "He really loved me and I couldn't reciprocate that. I
can't say I wasn't flattered that such an important man had been interested
in me."

Igor Minutka, who has ghost-written a book Nina Alekseyeva has written
about her time with Beria, said: "She was a real 1940s Hollywood-style
beauty. And if things had worked out a little differently, she would have
been Beria's wife - and the First Lady of the Soviet Union." (END)
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