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RADICAL REVERSAL OF UKRAINIAN POLICY
"Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma has signalled a foreign policy
about-turn in recent days with a series of measures that re-orient the
country towards Moscow and raise the stakes at upcoming elections,
analysts said this week.
The measures are "not only a step back towards Moscow but a radical
reversal of Ukrainian policy linked to the October 31 presidential
election," political analyst Volodymyr Polokholo said." [article one]
"THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT" Year 04, Number 127
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, THURSDAY, July 29, 2004
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"Major International News Headlines and Articles"
1. UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT KUCHMA SNUGGLES CLOSER TO
RUSSIA AHEAD OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Agence France-Presse, Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, 29 July 2004
2. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT SAYS A CHIEF SECURITY GOAL IS
NEUTRALIZING ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN SPIES
Putin said agents were trying to hinder cooperation between
Russia and the former Soviet Republic of Ukraine
AP Worldstream, Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jul 28, 2004
3. UKRAINIAN PM AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SAYS
THERE IS NO REALISTIC TIMETABLE FOR NATO
TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 27 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Tuesday, Jul 27, 2004
4. POLISH EX-FOREIGN MINISTER APPEALS TO EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENTARIANS TO ACTIVATE AN EUROPEAN UNION
POLICY TOWARDS UKRAINE AND BELARUS
PAP news agency, Warsaw, Poland, in Polish, 28 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wednesday, Jul 28, 2004
5. PRESIDENT KUCHMA DIRECTS CABINET TO ORGANIZE
EVENTS COMMEMORATING 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF
UKRAINE'S LIBERATION FROM NAZI FASCISTS IN 1944
Oleksandr Sukov, Ukrainian News, Kyiv, Ukraine, Fri, July 23, 2004
6. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN ORDERS STALINGRAD TRIBUTE
Heroism of Stalingrad's defenders and preserve history of Russia
BBC NEWS: London, UK, Friday, July 23, 2004
7. NEW ISSUES: UKRAINE HOPES TO CASH IN ON UPGRADE
By Ivar Simensen, Financial Times, London, UK, Wed, July 28, 2004
8. OPPOSITION CRITICAL OF PLANS TO SELL UKRAINIAN
TELECOM MONOPOLY
TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 28 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wednesday, Jul 28, 2004
9. UNITED STATES TO IMPLEMENT PLAN TO HARVEST
EMISSIONS OF METHANE PRIMARILY FROM COAL MINES
Ukraine, Britain, Australia, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico to join program
John Heilprin, AP Worldstream, Washington, D.C., Wed, July 28, 2004
10.PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE KINAKH SAYS A MAN WITH A
CRIMINAL PAST SHOULD NOT BE NEXT PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 28 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wednesday, Jul 28, 2004
11.YUSHCHENKO COULD DEFEAT YANUKOVYCH IN UKRAINE
Centre for Public Opinion & Democracy (CPOD)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Thursday, July 29, 2004
12. TIHIPKO FORECASTS THAT YANUKOVYCH'S RATINGS
WILL RISE AFTER TV DEBATES WITH YUSHCHENKO
Andrii Derkach, Ukrainian News, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tues, July 27, 2004
13. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION MANIFESTO OF UKRAINIAN
SOCIALIST PARTY LEADER OLEKSANDR MOROZ
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian 21 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wed, Jul 28, 2004
14. YUSHCHENKO OPPOSES PRIVATIZATION OF UKRAINE'S
UKRTELECOM BEFORE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
Anastasia Savytska, Ukrainian News, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wed, July 28, 2004
15. RISKY COAL MINES STUCK IN STONE AGE
Most fatal coal-mining accidents in Ukraine and China could be avoided.
By John Gartner, www.WiredNews.com, Technology
San Francisco, California, Tuesday, July 27, 2004
16. CANADIAN RESEARCHERS REMEMBER JAMES MACE
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Letter by Wsevolod W. Isajiw, Toronto
The Ukrainian Weekly, Ukrainian National Association
Parsippany, NJ, Sunday, Sunday, July 4, 2004, Pg. 7
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1. UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT KUCHMA SNUGGLES CLOSER TO
RUSSIA AHEAD OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Agence France-Presse, Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, 29 July 2004
KIEV - Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma has signalled a foreign policy
about-turn in recent days with a series of measures that re-orient the
country towards Moscow and raise the stakes at upcoming elections,
analysts said this week.
The measures are "not only a step back towards Moscow but a radical
reversal of Ukrainian policy linked to the October 31 presidential
election," political analyst Volodymyr Polokholo said.
Long caught in a tussle for influence between East and West, this former
Soviet republic of 48 million people had in the 1990s shown itself willing
to snub its Soviet-era masters, declaring NATO and European Union
membership to be key goals.
But events this week have confirmed analysts' belief that with EU and
NATO membership still elusive and pressure mounting at home, Kuchma
is willing to work side by side with Russia and its President Vladimir
Putin, a former KGB agent.
The apparent change of heart was heralded with a visit by Putin to the
Ukrainian resort town of Yalta on Monday, at which the Russian leader
warned against Western "agents" trying to sabotage a plan for economic
integration between Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine.
During Putin's visit, Ukraine published a new version of its defence
doctrine that omitted a prior commitment to join the European Union and
the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Ukraine announced in 2002 that
it planned to join NATO and has set 2011 as a target date for starting
negotiations on EU membership.
The weakening of the commitment to NATO membership was followed
on Wednesday by an announcement that for the time being put an end to
speculation over the future of an oil pipeline seen as a key pawn in the
struggle for Ukraine's loyalty.
Under a deal with the British-Russian joint venture TNK-BP effective for
three years, Ukraine's Odessa-Brody pipeline will not be used -- as US
officials had hoped -- to ship oil from the Caspian Sea countries to
Western markets, but for exporting oil from Russia's Siberia region.
One reason for Kuchma's change of heart concerning NATO is the lack
of any announcement at the alliance's recent Istanbul summit setting a more
concrete framework for Ukrainian accession to the alliance, analysts say.
But at least as significant are Kuchma's concerns about his future after the
presidential election in October. Kuchma has promised not to run in the
poll, after clinging to power for the 13 years since the Soviet Union's
collapse.
Analysts say that Kuchma is worried that corruption allegations and
suspicions surrounding the death of opposition journalist Georgi Gongadze
may continue to dog him once he leaves office.
They point to moves by the pro-Kuchma parties that dominate parliament
to introduce constitutional changes that would strengthen the roles of the
prime minister and parliament at the expense of the presidency. The changes
could potentially help to protect Kuchma in the event of an election win by
pro-Western favourite, opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko.
"It is a convergence of interests between the Kremlin and Leonid Kuchma
who don't want the liberal opposition and (Yushchenko) to win the election,"
Polokholo told AFP. Another Ukraine analyst, Volodymyr Malinkovich,
pointed to the hopes Kuchma may have that the Russian-speaking voters
dominant in eastern Ukraine will sideline Yushchenko.
"The Ukrainian powers play the Russian card in order to win the Russophone
vote ... and are assured of Moscow's support in the event of election
falsifications," Malinkovich said. "(But) in return Ukraine has to give
Russia guarantees." (END) (ARTUIS)
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2. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT SAYS A CHIEF SECURITY GOAL IS
NEUTRALIZING ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN SPIES
Putin said agents were trying to hinder cooperation between
Russia and the former Soviet Republic of Ukraine
AP Worldstream, Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jul 28, 2004
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin urged Russian security officials to
combat spying operations, saying Wednesday that "the neutralization of
activities by foreign intelligence services" is a chief priority of the
Federal Security Service, the main successor of the Soviet KGB.
Meeting with 42 top military and security officials who have recently been
promoted or appointed to new posts, Putin said that fighting corruption and
organized crime should be among the top priorities for agencies including
the service known by its Russian acronym FSB.
"Among the priorities for Federal Security Service, along with the
neutralization of activities by foreign intelligence services, are
guaranteeing the economic and financial security of the country and the
fight against organized crime and criminal groups," Putin said in comments
broadcast on state-run television.
Putin, a longtime KGB officer and former FSB director, did not single name
any countries specify which countries he was targeting. On Tuesday, he said
Western intelligence agents are trying to hinder cooperation between Russia
and the former Soviet republic of Ukraine.
He said that "international and domestic realities" demand better work by
the Foreign Intelligence Service. Putin, whose comments follow a shake-up
of the country's military and security leadership in the wake of a
devastating attack by militants on police facilities in the Ingushetia
region adjacent to Chechnya, said Russia's military, police and
security agencies must work better together.
"The most crucial task is to ensure clearer and more effective cooperation
between the Federal Security Service, the Interior Ministry and the Defense
Ministry," he said. He also told officials that their agencies must draw
"very serious conclusions" from the Ingushetia raids, which killed 90
people.
The armed forces chief of staff, the head of Interior Ministry forces and a
deputy FSB director were among those dismissed at least in part over the
attacks, which underlined Russian forces' weaknesses in and around
Chechnya and undermined Kremlin claims that the situation there is
stabilizing after a decade of war and chaos. (me/sbg)(END)(ARTUIS)
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3. UKRAINIAN PM AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SAYS
THERE IS NO REALISTIC TIMETABLE FOR NATO
TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 27 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Tuesday, Jul 27, 2004
KIEV - A person directly involved in the decision to make a final U-turn in
Ukrainian foreign policy to lead the country away from Europe has spoken
on the hot issue [of President Leonid Kuchma removing Ukraine's entry
into the EU and NATO as final goals from the military doctrine].
Prime Minister [Viktor] Yanukovych is a member of the National Security
and Defence Council, which had held a meeting just before President
Kuchma made changes to the military doctrine.
I quote the prime minister - the real development of the Ukrainian economy
and civil society, and meeting the requirements of the North Atlantic
alliance do not allow either Ukraine or NATO to talk of any realistic
timetable for entry - end of quote.
Presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych failed to explain how one can
enter something that one does not know how or aspire to enter.
[The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry today denied that Ukraine's foreign
policy priorities have been reviewed and altered - see Interfax-Ukraine
news agency, Kiev, in Russian 0926 gmt 27 Jul 04.] (END) (ARTUIS)
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4. POLISH EX-FOREIGN MINISTER APPEALS TO EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENTARIANS TO ACTIVATE AN EUROPEAN UNION
POLICY TOWARDS UKRAINE AND BELARUS
PAP news agency, Warsaw, Poland, in Polish, 28 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wednesday, Jul 28, 2004
BRUSSELS - Dariusz Rosati (of Polish Social Democracy - SdPl) on
Wednesday [28 April] put forward an appeal to European Parliamentarians
for an activation of an European Union policy towards Ukraine and Belarus,
this to be inclusive of a presentation of prospects for EU membership for
these countries.
"The initiative is intended to have the European Parliament Committee for
Foreign Affairs adopt a resolution appealing to the European Commission for
a fundamental activation of a policy towards Ukraine and Belarus, and also
appealing to the Council of Europe with a request for the sketching out of
prospects for an increase of integration between the EU and Ukraine and
Belarus, this up to and including the full membership of these countries,"
Rosati told PAP.
"This is, of course, after the fulfilment by them of the Copenhagen criteria
and after going through the entire procedure that is demanded of countries
that are candidates for this community," the former minister of foreign
affairs said by way of reservation.
The draft document sent to European parliamentarians states that the
relations between the EU and Ukraine and Belarus should receive a high
priority. New instruments of influence upon the civic society in these
countries are required, as well as a strengthening of economic cooperation
and assistance for them; finally, a specification of the prospects for their
membership of the EU is required.
In Rosati's view, the sketching out of such prospects would reduce
uncertainty in the foreign policy of the EU and would help build a political
front of support in those countries for European integration. He recalled
that the last declaration by Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma had
"revealed the complete ineffectiveness of EU policy towards these two
countries up until now".
The SdPl politician also drew attention to the fact that Belarus was "an
unfairly forgotten land". He admitted that a distancing from the authorities
in that country was justifiable, but he sees no reason for the stopping of
contacts at the level of citizens, non-governmental organizations, local
government, media representatives and other opinion-forming circles.
"The policy of the EU hitherto has been too little active, very conservative
and has reflected an arrangement of priorities more corresponding to the
state of the EU before expansion, when it was directed rather at the
countries of the Mediterranean Sea, North Africa, and perhaps even Latin
America," Rosati said.
In his view, after expansion the importance of EU eastern policy is growing,
in consequence of which it is necessary to "in fundamental manner change
the instruments of influence upon" the EU's new neighbours in the East and
place the so-called eastern dimension of EU policy "at the head of the list
of priorities".
Rosati stressed that he was striving to assure the greatest possible support
for this initiative. "The reaction of my parliamentarian colleagues from
Poland is favourable, but we want to give this matter an international and
inter-party dimension," the MEP said. He admitted that he had come
forward in his own name, but only because "somebody had to start and
somebody had to write the draft of such a resolution".
Rosati said that it was difficult to envisage the success of this initiative
because "the suggestion of even a very distant prospect of membership of the
EU for Ukraine, and especially for Belarus, is in the eyes of at least some
MEPs an unthinkable one." "But we will be working on this," he assured.
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5. PRESIDENT KUCHMA DIRECTS CABINET TO ORGANIZE
EVENTS COMMEMORATING 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF
UKRAINE'S LIBERATION FROM NAZI FASCISTS IN 1944
Oleksandr Sukov, Ukrainian News, Kyiv, Ukraine, July 23, 2004
KYIV - President Leonid Kuchma has directed the Cabinet of Ministers
to organize events commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of Ukraine's
liberation from fascists and improve the social welfare of veterans. The
presidential press service disclosed this to Ukrainian News.
Kuchma directed the chairman of the organizing committee for the events -
Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych - to make provisions for preparation
of "Bohdan Khmelnytskyi" and "Bravery" orders as well as "Defender of
the Fatherland" and "Sixty Years of Liberation of Ukraine from Fascists"
medals and organize a military parade and a commemorative march for
Great Patriotic War veterans in Kyiv on October 28, in addition to the
planned events.
Kuchma also directed the Cabinet of Ministers to declare 2005 the year of
veterans in Ukraine, establish life stipends for persons who have been of
special service to the country, submit to the parliament a draft law aimed
at better meeting the needs of participants in military actions, and make
provisions in the 2005 state budget for increasing expenditures on purchase
of automobiles and gasoline for war veterans, financing their treatment at
health resorts, and paying compensations to them.
Kuchma also directed the Cabinet of Ministers to resolve the issue of
raising pensions by at least 20% on March 1, 2005.
He also directed local administrations to review the material and social
conditions of war veterans, provide assistance to them (particularly repair
of apartments), and make provisions for improving the social conditions
of and medical services to veterans in their 2005 budgets.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Kuchma instructed the Cabinet of
Ministers in April to organize festivities marking the sixtieth anniversary
of liberation of Ukraine from fascist invaders on October 28.
Kuchma instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to hold a ceremonial meeting
and a grand concert in Kyiv Palace on that day, and to invite delegations
of veterans from the Crimea, Ukrainian regions, Kyiv, and Sevastopol,
as well as foreign nationals who took part in liberation of Ukraine from
fascist invaders.
Kuchma also instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to organize fireworks
on that day in Kyiv and other hero cities, regional centers and Simferopol;
to organize ceremonies and decorate veterans with state awards; and to
finance events commemorating the anniversary.
He also instructed the State Committee for Television and Radio
Broadcasting to ensure broad coverage of these festivities. (END)
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6. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN ORDERS STALINGRAD TRIBUTE
Heroism of Stalingrad's defenders and preserve history of Russia
BBC NEWS: London, UK, July 23, 2004
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the name of the city of
Stalingrad to be reinstated on a Moscow plaque commemorating the
1943 battle.
Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd in 1961, after the posthumous
disgrace of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Mr Putin said his aim was to
celebrate the turning point of World War II.
He said the change was also designed to pay tribute to "the heroism of
Stalingrad's defenders and to preserve the history of the Russian state".
Mr Putin asked the Moscow authorities to replace the "Volgograd" with
"Stalingrad" on a plaque near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
It features in an alley of granite blocks containing capsules of soil from
"Hero Cities" - Leningrad, Kiev, Volgograd, Odessa, Sevastopol,
Minsk, Kerch, Novorissiisk, Tula and the Fortress of Brest.
The battle of Stalingrad raged from August 1942 to February 1943 and
is thought to have claimed more lives than any other episode of World
War II. It was the first major Soviet victory of the war.
More than a million Soviet soldiers died defending the city.
Post-Soviet leaders have resisted pressure from nationalists and war
veterans to restore the name of the city itself to Stalingrad - fearing it
would signal a return to Stalinist dictatorship. (END)(ARTUIS)
LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/3922121.stm
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7. NEW ISSUES: UKRAINE HOPES TO CASH IN ON UPGRADE
By Ivar Simensen, Financial Times, London, UK, Wed, July 28, 2004
LONDON - Ukraine is on Thursday expected to sell about $500m of floating
rate bonds with a five-year maturity, hoping that investors are buying into
its improving credit quality after Standard & Poor's upgraded the country
last week.
S&P raised its sovereign rating of Ukraine by one notch to Single B plus on
July 20, saying its economic prospects had improved. The rating is four
levels below investment grade. The upgrade brought Ukraine's rating in line
with that of Moody's Investors Service and to the same level as Turkey's and
Brazil's, although its bonds are trading at higher prices due to its smaller
debt burden.
Citigroup, Credit Suisse First Boston and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein are
lead managers for the deal. The deal follows the sale of about $265m of
bonds by Kyivstar, the Ukranian mobile phone operator, on Tuesday. The order
book for the five-year deal reached $850m from 40 accounts. Citigroup and
DrKW were lead managers....." (END)
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8. OPPOSITION CRITICAL OF PLANS TO SELL UKRAINIAN
TELECOM MONOPOLY
TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 28 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wednesday, Jul 28, 2004
KIEV - [Presenter] The government has approved the terms of the sale
of a 43-per-cent stake in the national telecom operator, public joint-stock
company Ukrtelekom. The minimum value of the stake is 1,700m hryvnyas
[approximately 320m dollars].
As ever, the government's intentions are pure and sinless. The 43 per cent
will be sold to a strategic investor while the state will retain ownership
of a controlling stake of 50 per cent plus one share. Seven per cent have
already been sold to the workforce on preferential terms. Bidding will be
announced as early as this week. The tender committee on the Ukrtelekom
sale is chaired by a deputy chairman of the State Property Fund, Svitlana
Lukomska.
Here is what [centre-right Our Ukraine] MP Borys Bespalyy has had to
say on this.
[Bespalyy, speaking on the phone, with his picture being shown] This
situation is quite clear-cut. At first they scared off big potential
investors in order to keep them away while the company is handed over for
a song to some of their own people again. It is the second, or the
umpteenth, episode of the story that happened to Kryvorizhstal [Ukraine's
largest steelworks, which has recently been sold to businessmen close to
President Leonid Kuchma and the Donetsk business group, sparking the
opposition's protests].
This is a sign of the guarantor [of the constitution, as President Kuchma is
often called] and his inner circle packing up. [Passage omitted: MP
Valentyna Semenyuk is expected to speak on Ukrtelekom privatization in
later bulletins.]
[The Syla Narodu (People's Strength) centre-right coalition, made up of the
Our Ukraine bloc and the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc, today expressed concern
at the government's plans to sell Ukrtelekom, doubting the transparency of
bidding and selection, and reiterating its demand that the privatization of
major national companies should be postponed until after the 2004
presidential election, according to Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in
Russian 1456 gmt 28 Jul 04.] (END) (ARTUIS)
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9. UNITED STATES TO IMPLEMENT PLAN TO HARVEST
EMISSIONS OF METHANE PRIMARILY FROM COAL MINES
Ukraine, Britain, Australia, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico to join program
John Heilprin, AP Worldstream, Washington, D.C., July 28, 2004
WASHINGTON - Methane emissions, a heat-trapping atmospheric gas
that largely goes to waste but can be used as a clean-burning fuel, would
be harvested by industrial nations and sold to poorer ones under a plan
the Bush administration announced Wednesday.
The heads of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy
Department, along with President George W. Bush's senior environmental
adviser, said the plan would both create a new market in methane gas and
help slow global warming.
The plan involves spending up to $53 million over the next five years as
part of an agreement with seven countries to harvest emissions of methane
primarily from coal mines and improvements in natural gas systems.
The administration, meanwhile, has opposed restricting emissions of
carbon dioxide, the industrial gas most cited by scientists for warming
the atmosphere like a greenhouse. President Bush had supported
regulating that gas in his 2000 campaign.
The United States is joining with Australia, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico,
Britain and Ukraine to develop the market.
Mike Leavitt, the EPA administrator, cited significant energy, safety and
environmental benefits. He called it "a partnership that has the double
benefit of capturing the second-most abundant greenhouse gas and turning
it to productive use as a clean-burning fuel." Energy Secretary Spencer
Abraham said the agreement "will benefit the economies of developing
nations across the world."
They said it could potentially eliminate enough methane gas each year to
have the effect of removing 33 million cars from highways for a year or
cutting all emissions from 50 coal-burning power plants. (END)(ARTUIS)
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10. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE KINAKH SAYS A MAN WITH A
CRIMINAL PAST SHOULD NOT BE NEXT PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 28 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wednesday, Jul 28, 2004
KIEV - The Ukrainian prime minister and main government-backed presidential
candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, has come under attack from his predecessor
Anatoliy Kinakh, the head of the pro-presidential Party of Industrialists
and Entrepreneurs, who is also running for president. In an apparent
reference to Yanukovych's two criminal convictions dating back to the 1970s,
Kinakh said a man with a criminal past should not be the next president of
Ukraine.
Kinakh's party is part of a loose pro-presidential coalition in parliament.
Kinakh himself is the only heavyweight pro-presidential politician running
against Yanukovych in the election. The following is an excerpt from a
report by the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN:
Kiev, 28 July: The president of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and
Entrepreneurs and a presidential candidate from the Party of Industrialists
and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine, Anatoliy Kinakh, has said he is confident that
an individual who has criminal convictions should not stand for president
and that this is his position of principle.
Kinakh said this to journalists in Kiev today, commenting on his interview
with Radio Liberty aired live on 26 July. Kinakh said that this is his
"position of principle", irrespective of names.
When asked by a listener: "Do you think an individual who has convictions
can stand for president?" in the live interview with Radio Liberty the day
before yesterday, Kinakh said: "There is absolutely no right to do so, as
this is no longer the problem of that individual but the problem of the
honour, reputation and dignity of the entire country. Society, the state and
the honour and reputation of the state should not be made hostage to the
attempts of those with a criminal past to come to power." [Passage omitted:
Kinakh speaks about moral values.] (END) (ARTUIS)
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11. YUSHCHENKO COULD DEFEAT YANUKOVYCH IN UKRAINE
Centre for Public Opinion & Democracy (CPOD)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Thursday, July 29, 2004
KIEV - Ukrainian voters would choose an opposition politician if this year's
presidential election gets to a second round, according to a poll by the
Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Center of Social and Political
Investigations (SOCIS). 40.4 per cent of respondents would vote for Viktor
Yushchenko of the Our Ukraine (NU) party, while 31.1 per cent would
support current prime minister Viktor Yanukovych.
Yushchenko and Yanukovych have been the top contenders in recent
public opinion polls. If no candidate garners more than 50 per cent of all
cast ballots in the Oct. 31 election, a run-off would take place on Nov. 14.
Late last year, Ukrainian lawmakers close to current president Leonid
Kuchma suggested changing the country's electoral law. Their plan called
for the abolition of the presidential election by popular vote, to allow
members of the legislative branch to pick the head of state. The proposal
was narrowly defeated in the Supreme Council in February.
In April, Kuchma tabled Yanukovych as a presidential candidate. Yushchenko
is widely regarded as the best chance for the opposition against Kuchma's
hand-picked successor in the election. Other registered candidates include
Petro Symonenko of the Communist Party (KPU), Oleksandr Moroz of the
Socialist Party (SPU) and Nataliya Vitrenko of the Progressive Socialist
Party (PSPU).
Polling Data: What candidate would you vote for if these two candidates
reach the second round of Ukraine's presidential election?
Viktor Yushchenko - Our Ukraine (NU) 40.4%;
Viktor Yanukovych - Prime minister 31.1%;
Neither10.1%; Undecided 12.4% (END)(ARTUIS)
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Source: Democratic Initiatives Foundation / Center of Social and Political
Investigations (SOCIS); Methodology: Interviews to 1,200 Ukrainian adults,
conducted from Jul. 1 to Jul. 8, 2004. Margin of error is 3 per cent.
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12. TIHIPKO FORECASTS THAT YANUKOVYCH'S RATINGS
WILL RISE AFTER TV DEBATES WITH YUSHCHENKO
Andrii Derkach, Ukrainian News, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tues, July 27, 2004
KIEV - The head of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's presidential
election campaign team, Serhii Tihipko, has forecast that Yanukovych's
ratings will rise after he holds television debates with the Our Ukraine
coalition's leader Viktor Yuschenko, who is also a presidential candidate.
The press service of Yanukovych's election campaign headquarters
announced this in a statement.
"I think that it would be best to start public debates as soon as possible.
Primarily with Yuschenko. I believe that this would be the best option for
raising Yanukovych's rating. Three months of such debates, and everyone
would know whom to vote for," the press service quotes Tihipko as saying.
The press service did not say whether Yanukovych has agreed to debate
Yuschenko on television.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, a poll conducted by the Ukrainian
Institute of Social Research and the Ukrainian Center for Political
Management indicates that Yuschenko is the most trusted politician in
Ukraine (with 39% of respondents expressing trust in him) while
Yanukovych is the second most trusted (31%).
The presidential election campaign started in Ukraine on July 3. The
presidential elections will be held on October 31. (END) (ARTUIS)
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13. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION MANIFESTO OF UKRAINIAN
SOCIALIST PARTY LEADER OLEKSANDR MOROZ
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian 21 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wed, Jul 28, 2004
KIEV - A presidential candidate from Ukraine's left-wing opposition,
Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz, has launched his election manifesto.
In it Moroz pledges to double minimum wage and pension by nationalizing
key industries. Moroz also supports a total ban on foreign ownership of land
and withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Iraq. The following is the text of
Moroz' manifesto published by the pro-opposition web site Ukrayinska
Pravda on 21 July; subheadings have been inserted editorially:
Esteemed compatriots! We are living in hard times. Today nobody is
certain of tomorrow. Ukraine is ruled by oligarchic clans. This is the
cause of all our troubles. This is the cause of homeless children, families
torn apart in foreign lands, unemployment, uncertainty and anxiety. This
is why people do not trust the authorities. This is not the way it should
be. This is not the way it will be!
ACHIEVEMENTS OF UKRAINIAN SOCIALISTS
The Socialists have always been and will always be consistent. Two years,
ago when we stood in the [2002 parliamentary] elections, we undertook
commitments to you. They were fulfilled, but not all of them - they are
meeting resistance.
Nevertheless, new electoral legislation has been passed, and political
reform has been launched which will make it possible to establish public
control over government. Veterans' benefits have been maintained, a
moratorium on the sale of land has been extended and funds for state
purchase orders and cheaper loans for the countryside have been ear-
marked in the budget. Housing loans for young people have been
provided for.
A simpler taxation system has been maintained for small and medium
businesses. With your support we did not allow utility charges and
electricity costs and tariffs to be raised as had been planned by the
authorities. State orders for students have increased. The state has
admitted its debt to educators.
The presidential election is a chance to change one's life. It is a way to
show the corrupt authorities that they will not be able to hold on to their
cosy seats. It is also a way to show those who got the title of the
opposition by accident that the people are not going to replace like with
like.
One of the richest European states and millions of intelligent and
industrious Ukrainians should be proud of their successes and not be
notorious for disasters. Put it this way: either we all win together, or the
clans win all.
As I start my campaign, I am not going to disparage the government. You
know their worth. This government is a thing of the past, but people's
history knows no end. I am not going to smear my competitors: it is about
us, rather than about them. I will talk of what to expect of me and the
Socialists. We must act for the sake of a better life for those who are
living today, for the sake of our children, for the sake of confidence in
tomorrow.
This is a fight for you. I am ready to carry on fighting -
STATE-CONTROLLED ECONOMY
- for order in the state, the same law for everybody, honest and efficient
government accountable to every citizen and elected heads of local
government;
- for a regulated price policy and a state monopoly on strategic resources
and the energy, alcohol and tobacco sectors; this is to be used for raising
minimum wages and pensions to a subsistence minimum of at least 400
hryvnyas [about 75 dollars a month] within a year; for an economic barrier
to crises on the bread, energy and fuel markets;
- for regulating prices and tariffs in the utilities sector so that they do
not destroy family budgets; for returning Soviet-era deposits [in the banks
of the former USSR] within five years as one of the ways the state manifests
its attitude towards pensioners, veterans and children of the war;
- for making every school, kindergarten, hostel, community centre and
hospital well-heated, equipped and provided with medication, for children to
be well-fed, for each village and town to have an Internet connection, for
above all the gifted, and not only the wealthy, to have access to education;
For a reliable health-care system, covering treatment costs by medical
insurance and putting an end to people dying out;
for long-term government housing loans for all young families;
for creating one million jobs every year, bringing Ukrainian citizens back
to Ukraine and protecting the rights of our compatriots who are temporarily
abroad;
EXCLUSIVE RIGHT OF UKRAINIANS TO OWN LAND
- for the exclusive right of Ukrainian citizens to own land, for trade to be
in bread and not in land and for children's voices to be heard in the
countryside;
- for modernizing the economy by combining manufacturing, science and
education, for increasing state assistance to knowledge-based manufacturers;
- for facilitating accelerated development of small and medium business and
entreprise;
- for preserving living nature, providing every family with clean drinking
water, increasing forests, parks and national reserves by 30 per cent;
- for overcoming the moral and spiritual crisis in the society, which is one
of the causes of Ukraine's decline, and for banning propaganda of violence
and cruelty in the mass media;
UKRAINE'S FOREIGN POLICY AND WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ
- for Ukraine's non-aligned status, pursuing a pro-Ukrainian foreign policy,
developing equal and mutually beneficial relations with its neighbours,
primarily Russia and the European Union; for an immediate withdrawal of
Ukrainian servicemen from Iraq.
My goal is the prosperity of every family and a strong democratic and
sovereign state. This is the way I see democratic socialism and Ukraine's
European choice.
For confidence in tomorrow! (END) (ARTUIS)
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14. YUSHCHENKO OPPOSES PRIVATIZATION OF UKRAINE'S
UKRTELECOM BEFORE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
Anastasia Savytska, Ukrainian News, Kyiv, Ukraine, July 28, 2004
KYIV - Viktor Yuschenko, who is the leader of the Our Ukraine coalition
of parties and a presidential candidate in this year's elections, has said
that he is against the privatization of Ukrtelecom, the largest tele-
communication in the country, until the presidential elections and he says
that he will not recognize the lawfulness of this transaction if he wins the
elections.
This is disclosed in the statement of the People's Power coalition, which
was signed by Yuschenko. Ukrainian News obtained the text of this
statement. "We are warning everybody... that the new democratic
government will not recognize the fact of the so-called privatization of
Ukrtelecom, if it will take place in 2004," it is mentioned in the
statement.
It is also mentioned in the statement that on account of dubious
transactions on sale of government facilities in 2004, such as
Kryvorizhstal, the budget under-received tens of millions of hryvnia,
thanks to which it might have been possible to realistically, and not
symbolically increase wages, pensions and stipends.
This is why the coalition is going to keenly follow the privatization
procedure of strategic facilities, to which Ukrtelecom is ascribed, and
it will insist on making public the privatization processes.
The coalition also states that in case the law would be broken in the
process of privatization, all those that are involved with these dubious
transactions will sooner or later bear criminal accountability.
As Ukrainian News reported previously, the Cabinet of Ministers on
Wednesday, July 28, approved the terms for privatization of 42.86%
of the Ukrtelecom company's shares. The State Property Fund will be
able to make public the details of the privatization terms of Ukrtelecom
after receiving the document that the government had approved.
Ukrtelecom controls more than 80% of the market for local telephony
and it owns the most extensive fiber optic primary networks with total
length of 12,000 kilometers. Besides the 7.14% shares that were sold
on preferential terms to the enterprise's employees, the remaining shares
(92.86%) are owned by the state. (END) (ARTUIS)
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15. RISKY COAL MINES STUCK IN STONE AGE
Most fatal coal-mining accidents in Ukraine and China could be avoided.
By John Gartner, www.WiredNews.com, Technology
San Francisco, California, Tuesday, July 27, 2004
If digging under thousands of tons of earth sounds dangerous, it is.
Thousands of miners die each year. But most of the fatal coal-mining
accidents in countries like Ukraine and China could easily be avoided,
experts say, by replacing gas-monitoring equipment that predates the light
bulb.
Mine explosions are weekly occurrences in China, where 2,644 miners
died in the first half of this year. Twenty-four were killed in separate
accidents on July 14 and July 21. In Ukraine, 31 miners perished on July
20 from a methane gas explosion, which experts say is a common cause
of mine fatalities.
Davitt McAteer, who worked for the U.S. Department of Labor as assistant
secretary for Mine Safety and Health, visited coal mines in China and
Ukraine during the late 1990s and said the safety technology in use was
crude. "To use the word 'Stone Age' is not too far from the truth," he said.
McAteer said that while mines operated by the Chinese central government
use modern technology, some mines owned by the provinces employ few
safeguards to protect miners. He said when he visited Ukraine, he was
astonished to see that a technology invented in 1813 was still in use. He
saw some miners using the flame safety lamp, which uses an open flame
encircled by a metal gauze. If the miner carrying the lamp notices that the
flame has elongated, then methane gas is present.
McAteer said the flame safety lamp was snuffed out in U.S. mining during
the 1980s in favor of handheld computers called canaries, named after the
bird that was often brought into mines to detect the presence of gases.
"Technology in this part of the world is, comparatively speaking, quite
advanced compared to those used in China and the Ukraine," McAteer said.
He said fatal mine accidents are becoming increasingly rare in the United
States.
McAteer said canaries, which look somewhat like handheld computers, check
the quality and quantity of a number of gases, and are used at the "face" of
the mine, where machines are used to extract the coal. McAteer said the U.S.
government brought some of the devices to Ukraine, but miners there lacked
tech savvy and infrastructure, and abandoned using them.
Some high-end mining equipment includes gas-detection sensors that will shut
down the devices if methane levels get too high, according to McAteer.
However, both the high-end models and the canaries require a human to be
present for the gas to be detected, and they only detect gases in a small
area of the mine, McAteer said. Another problem is that because methane is
lighter than oxygen, it can collect in the roofs of mines, away from the
sensors.
Methane is a hazard to miners "because of its explosability," said Tom
Novak, who heads the Department of Mining and Minerals at Virginia Tech.
Methane is very explosive at a concentration of 5 percent or more. "It only
takes a slight spark, like from touching a door after walking on carpeting,"
Novak said. Once methane is detected by a sensor, the mining company
stops excavation and uses fans to ventilate the area.
Wireless networks that link sensors scattered throughout a mine could be the
next wave in mine-safety equipment. Mine Safety Appliances of Pittsburgh
developed the Ultima RF Wireless Network System, which sends radio
messages from the sensors to a centralized controller or a PC so that
information can be aggregated.
The wireless network can be used for remote monitoring and to track trends,
such as increasing levels of methane in adjacent areas, according to Allan
Roczko, product line manager at MSA. Roczko said the wireless network
can be more reliable than workers who "sometimes don't take their personal
protection devices with them, or lack confidence in products and ignore
alarms."
Roczko said MSA has implemented wireless networks for several mining
companies, but declined to name any customers.
"In general there's a movement toward mine-wide monitoring," said Tom
Mucho, a researcher at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health who is familiar with MSA's products. Mucho said a single sensor
may not be sufficient to detect methane gas across an entire mine face,
which may be 6 feet high by 18 to 20 feet wide.
Mucho said wireless networks could be used to monitor areas that are not
actively being mined and are checked less frequently. "More companies are
becoming interested in remote transmission for the gathering and handling of
data," Mucho said, adding that central control rooms for tracking production
and safety are becoming commonplace at mine sites. Another technology that
could help ensure miner safety is the personal global positioning system to
track their location, but workers have not embraced the idea, according to
Mucho. "They would question why they are being tracked."
While Mucho said that U.S. state and federal laws requiring mines to be
monitored for dangerous gases are "generally sufficient," health and safety
officials in Pennsylvania are looking to revamp mining regulations. On July
21 (the second anniversary of the Quecreek mine accident), the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection requested that it be given more
authority to impose penalties on mine operators and to issue new
regulations.
Karl Lasher, a spokesman for the department, said mining laws in the state
have been virtually unchanged since 1961, and some laws -- like the one that
still requires miners to carry a flame safety lamp -- are almost 200 years
old. "We need the ability to pass regulations as technology changes. Now it
is an incredibly long process, sometimes taking a year or more." (END)
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16. CANADIAN RESEARCHERS REMEMBER JAMES MACE
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Letter by Wsevolod W. Isajiw, Toronto
The Ukrainian Weekly, Ukrainian National Association
Parsippany, NJ, Sunday, July 4, 2004, Pg. 7
Dear Editor:
The members of the board of directors of the Ukrainian Canadian
Research and Documentation Centre [UCRDC] profoundly feel the
loss of Dr. James Mace. Since its very beginning the center had a
special relationship with Dr. Mace.
The center began its work on the documentary film, "Harvest of
Despair" in the beginning of the 1980s. It commissioned the Rev.
Porfiry Pidruchny of the Basilian Order in Rome to search for any
documents dealing with the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 in the
Italian State Archives, where he was able to pool together the reports
of the Italian Consulate in Kharkiv during the time of the Famine. (That
file as organized and brought together by the Rev. Porfiry was later
discovered accidentally in the same archives by Andrea Graziosi.)
Soon after, Dr. Mace was beginning to work on the Famine for the
U.S. Congress. He turned to us, and the center was only too happy
to have these documents translated into English and forward them to
him. A number of these documents are included in Dr. Mace's report.
In addition, the center made available to him a number of taped
interviews with Famine witnesses that we had in our own archives.
Later, Dr. Mace appeared in our documentary film "Harvest of
Despair" as the expert authority on the Famine. There he emphasized
how the Ukrainian leaders in the early period of the Soviet Union
perceived their role. He pointed out for example, that Mykola
Skrypnyk, during his visits with Stalin representing the Ukrainian
Soviet Socialist Republic, would bring a translator to translate from
Ukrainian to Russian - even though he knew the Russian language
perfectly. With the Famine, all these attempts at Ukrainization were
finished.
Two years after his report on the Famine to the U.S. Congress was
published. I asked Jim to participate as a panelist in the 1990
conference on the Famine sponsored by the UCRDC in Toronto.In
his presentation he described the politics that he had to overcome in
researching the Famine and the paths that led to his final success. He
would come back to Toronto later on to present lectures on the Famine
at its 70th anniversary at the University of Toronto.
After his move to Ukraine, Jim continued to maintain contact with us
through e-mail. He would often forward articles written by him, would
ask questions about specific issues or draw the center's directors'
attention to happenings in Ukraine having to do with the Famine.
Dr. Jim Mace touched the hearts of the UCRDC members directly.
He was my friend. His death was a shock and a loss of a valuable
scholar, a friend, a courageous researcher and a committed contributor
to the Ukrainian community, both in the diaspora and in Ukraine.
Vichna yomu pamiat. (www.ukrweekly.com) (END) (ARTUIS)
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The letter-writer, Wsevolod W. Isajiw, is president of the Ukrainian
Canadian Research and Documentation Centre (UCRDC), 620
Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2H4.
Wsevolod W. Isajiw edited the book, "Famine-Genocide in Ukraine,
1932-1933, Western Archives, Testimonies and New Research,"
published by UCRDC in 2003. (ucrdc@interlog.com)
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NOTE: "DR. JAMES E. MACE MEMORIAL HOLODOMOR FUND"
A special "Dr. James E. Mace Memorial Holodomor Fund" has been
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Chairperson and Vera Andryczuk, President.
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(UFA), 930 Henrietta Avenue, Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania 19006-8502.
Your financial support is needed to continue the important work about the
Ukrainian genocidal famine of 1932-1933, the Holodomor.
For additional information about the special "Dr. James E. Mace
Memorial Holodomor Fund" and the recent meetings in Kyiv with Mrs.
Natalia Dziubenko-Mace and other holodomor scholars, commemoration
leaders, and The Day to establish specific programs in honor of Dr. James E.
Mace, please contact E. Morgan Williams, Executive Director, Ukrainian
Federation of America, morganw@patriot.net. (END)
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