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Unruly Untouchables The video of a girl allegedly being brutally beated by Roman Landik, son of a pro-presidential lawmaker, has stunned Ukraine. But this incident is only one example of the behavior of Ukraine's mazhory, or rich brats. They are known for often shocking behavior. Some have landed in court. Far too often they get away unpunished or with misdemeanors, critics say, because of powerful parents. Analysts say the impression of impunity creates a dangerous gap in society that could explode. See story on page 2 and editorial on page 4.

Dmytro Karatumanov, the 17-year-old son of a Kharkiv Oblast council deputy.

Nataliya Solovey, a 29-year old assistant to a judge. (Anastasia Vlasova)

Rodion Haysynsky, son of Kharkiv’s city mayor.

Dmytro Rud, son of a prosecutor in Dnipropetrovsk.

Vitaliy Faingold, son of a Simferopil city council deputy.

Roman Landik, son of an influential lawmaker close to President Viktor Yanukovych, attends a Luhansk city council meeting on Dec. 26, 2006. He was 32 years old at the time. Five years later, Landik has been expelled from the pro-presidential Party of Regions for allegedly violently beating a girl. (Nikolay Sidorov)

Viktor Yanukovych (L), son of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

Painful for retirees, pension Ukraine’s Vanquished Jews: Daunting law key to more IMF loans struggle to preserve Jewish heritage

BY MA R I A S H A M OTA SHAMOTA@KYIVPOST.COM

In the early morning of July 8, lawmakers finally approved controversial new pension legislation that will raise the pension age for women and could help Ukraine secure additional International Monetary Fund bailout loans.

Pension reform legislation approval came after nine hours of debate, during which lawmakers refused to include the majority of over 1,000 corrections suggested mostly by oppositionists.

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The provisions of the legislation – including raising the retirement age for women from 55 to 60 – could help the government seal the next tranche of its $15 billion credit from the IMF. But experts say that pension reform alone is not enough to unfreeze billion-dollar IMF loans that are needed to patch up Ukraine’s stretched finances. The government will probably also have to further increase utility prices for households after hiking natural gas prices 50 percent last summer.

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Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a five-part series that examines the Holocaust in western Ukraine that nearly wiped out its 500,000-member Jewish community during Nazi Germany’s occupation in World War II. This segment tells the story of one man’s race against time to find and preserve the disappearing remnants.

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They are young, flush with cash and irresponsible.

Because of who their parents are critics say they get away with misdemeanors for which others would be punished harshly. They are Ukraine’s mazhory, or rich brats, the children of the country’s elite – lawmakers and businessmen.

The case of Roman Landik – the 37-year-old son of a pro-presidential parliamentarian close to President Viktor Yanukovych who earlier this month was apparently caught on video viciously beating a girl in a Luhansk restaurant – has brought into focus the lifestyles of the children of Ukraine’s rich and powerful.

On July 5, Landik, a Luhansk city councilmember, punched and dragged a girl by her hair through a restaurant in the eastern Ukrainian city. After public revulsion at a video of the incident widely posted on the Internet, police in Luhansk issued a search warrant. He was apprehended in Krasnodar, Russia on July 10. He is currently in detention awaiting deportation proceedings.

In recent interviews, Landik says he can't understand why the incident is being investigated because he claims to have made peace with the girl.

Landik’s luck may have run out,

A man resembling Roman Landik is seen on video beating Maria Korshunova in Luhansk’s Bakkara restaurant on July 5. (youtube.com/Inter)

although there’s a long process ahead before a potential trial in Ukraine.

But the video sheds light on the way that mazhory act with disregard for the law and with a sense of impunity, much like their influential parents, be they lawmakers, government officials or children of oligarchs.

This impression – expressed widely in comments on news websites and under posts of the video – creates

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Activists from Ukraine’s New Citizen organization protested on July 14 in front of Ukraine’s General Prosecutor’s Office against the impunity that children of influential parents far too often benefit from. (Ukrainian photo)

Does impunity apply to these children of influential parents?

Dmytro Chernushenko, son of a Kyiv appeal court judge, was reportedly intoxicated on July 7 when he got into a fight with security guards in front of an Odesa nightclub. Chernushenko and his girlfriend, a district judge in Kyiv, refused to pass through a metal detector to enter the nightclub and attacked security guards in an incident caught on video. When the police arrived, he allegedly began shouting that his dad is a Kyiv judge and threatened to make sure the police officers get fired. According to Chernushenko, the nightclub's security is to blame for the scandal. Although the video of the incident posted on the Internet shows how he and his companion attacked the guards, Chernushenko says the security men were rude to them and the police detained them for no reason.

Nataliya Solovey, a judge’s assistant, ran over and killed a woman while parking her expensive Mercedes jeep on a sidewalk in Kyiv on June 24. Solovey, 29, was released on bail. According to the police, the car accident might have been due to the driver mixing up the brake and the gas pedal. A criminal case was launched

on charges of violating traffic rules. If found guilty, she will face from three to 10 years in jail. Solovey refused to talk to journalists.

Rodion Haysynsky, son of Kharkiv Mayor Gennady Kernes, boasted on online car forums of driving at 260 kilometers per hour. Rodion, a 19-year-old student who drives a $100,000 BMW, was reportedly never pulled over by police for speeding. Haysynsky denies ever driving a BMW or speeding. However, his classmates are reported to have confirmed to have seen Rodion frequently arriving at classes in his BMW. Video footage on the Internet appears to confirm their claim.

Dmytro Rud, son of a prosecutor in Dnipropetrovsk, ran over and killed three women last October and drove away. A criminal case was launched against him.

Rud was detained for the duration of the investigation and trial, but has been recently released on bail. Initially Rud said he was not driving his car, because it had been stolen on the day of the accident.

Then his lawyer acknowledged that fact that his client had hit the people, but noted that he was not to blame for the

accident. The latest situation is that Rud’s lawyer says his client may face lesser punishment as he financially compensated the losses of the victim’s relatives and they have no complaints against him now.

Dmytro Karatumanov, the 17-yearold son of a Kharkiv oblast council deputy, killed a 19-year-old student in a car accident back in 2008. The criminal case

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a dangerous divide in the country between “them” and “us,” the very gap, analysts say, that led to the Arab Spring protests in which populations in the Middle East and North Africa this year have risen up against their rulers.

“Such incidents decrease trust toward the political elite at large,” said Andriy Bychenko, director of sociological service at the Razumkov Center think tank. He added that the attention to and indignation at the incident demonstrates the low level of trust among Ukrainians of the authorities and politicians.

Political consultant Vadym Karasyov said relations between those in power and the rest of Ukraine’s population is very similar to those in Middle Eastern and North African countries, which in the last months experienced a wave of massive demonstrations that brought down local ruling clans in several countries.

“This is a model of feudal capitalism which is characterized by the divide between upper and lower classes,” he said, describing the political system in Arab countries, where ruling clans have for decades been benefiting at the expense of average citizens, as many critics believe the Ukrainian ruling classes have been.

The incident with Landik is the latwas closed and Karatumanov was found innocent.

Serhiy Kalynovsky, the 22-year-old former stepson of gas-trading oligarch Dmytro Firtash, was driving at high speed when he ran into a parked car, killing two people in Kyiv in 2007. A criminal case was launched against him, but Kalynovsky disappeared and is now allegedly abroad.

Vitaliy Faingold, son of a Simferopil city council deputy, killed a 25-year-old motorcyclist while driving a Bentley at high speed in an accident in 2008. Faingold got a two-year suspended sentence.

Serhiy Demishkan, the son of Volodymyr Demishkan, a close associate of President Viktor Yanukovych and head of the state roadway service, was accused by prosecutors of taking part in a brutal murder. He spent time in pretrial detention but was released on bail in 2010, the year that Yanukovych became president of Ukraine.

Viktor Yanukovych, the 29-year old son of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and a lawmaker in the propresidential Party of Regions faction, has several times got caught in sticky situations. As well as being videoed voting on behalf of allies in parliament, contraven-

est in a long line of incidents in recent years where the law has apparently been broken by mazhory, but they have got off lightly. The nongovernmental activist organization New Citizen held a protest on July 14 in downtown Kyiv to express public disapproval on Landik and his fellow rich kids.

While the rich have been driving their expensive cars and living a life of luxury, average citizens have been shouldering an increasing burden. Annual inflation has hovered at double-digit levels for the past decade.

Utility prices and the retirement age are being raised to patch up stretched state finances. Meanwhile, reports and evidence build up implicating top officials of corruption that bleeds budget coffers while making their friends rich, but few are held accountable.

Karasyov said Ukraine is moving toward a feudal quasi-capitalism in which elites are formed not through social and political competition but as a result of nepotism or other close affiliation.

“This system cannot be competitive because it is economically inefficient and socially dangerous. At some point people decide to leave or change the country,” he said adding that if tension builds up, an explosive revolution is possible.

The incident with Landik is the latest of many in recent years where the children of the rich and powerful have acted badly – often criminally – and been let off lightly, critics say, because of their connections.

Below is just a short list of a few other such examples:

Serhiy Demishkan ing the Constitution, he was also recently behind an off-road race in wildlife reserve area that activists said posed a danger to local wildlife. In a video posted on YouTube this week, Yanukovych appeared unsteady on his feet, reportedly drunk, cursing and struggling to find his way home while his bodyguards tried to help him out. His assistant did not respond to requests for comment from the Kyiv Post. At a recent press conference his father President Yanukovych said he is “not ashamed of his children and grandchildren.”

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A GOLDMINE FOR UKRAINIAN ECONOMY Innermost overview of IT industry prospects and challenges

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T sector demonstrates continued progress and competitive dynamics - growth indices show 35-40% increase per year. The self-sufficient IT sector boasts the absence of necessity to allocate vast state investments, exploit natural resources, however adds value to the Ukraine’s economic and scientific potential and refines country’s image as an innovative and exportoriented state.

Ukraine is among the IT sector growth indices show leading software exporters on the world arena, as more than 20% of the EMEA’ IT market share is supplied by increase per year Ukrainian IT players. India, as one of the main Ukraine’s competitors on the world IT market, holds around 40% of the software market share. India managed to show such results due to the centralized state industry support, tax-free period and various tax benefits.

China challenges India’s dominance on the world IT market and presently holds about 25% of the global IT market share. It is widely anticipated that China can potentially gain the lead due to the surprisingly high tempo of IT sector development. China’s vibrant and dynamic IT industry success is largely based on state policy aimed at reducing tax obligations for the sector. Currently Ukraine shares the category of “perspective IT market player” with Brazil, Belarus, Indonesia and Philippines.

The driving force behind IT activities of Ukrainian companies is the possibility for outsource IT specialists act VLADIMIR Beck, as individual entrepreneurs EBA IT Committee Chair and provide services on the CEO, Sigma Ukraine basis of timed employment agreements. The enactment of a single tax system for entrepreneurs has been a successful attempt to balance Ukraine’s business environment and tax-free regimes of China, India etc.

In 2010 when the Government intended to cancel the simplified tax regime for IT entrepreneurs thus causing long-term damage for the overall sector, the EBA addressed an alarming concern of

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o news is a good news” – with this phrase one can fully depict the current state of affairs when the newly-adopted Law amending the Tax Code of Ukraine hasn’t provided EDUARD Rubin, a negative input on the local CEO, Telesens International Ltd IT sphere. The Government seems to fully comprehend the vitality of the sector for the national economy. IT is one of the few global-market-oriented industries in Ukraine, which demonstrates high level of competitiveness: according to 2010 year-end statistics, Ukraine was ranked among TOP 5 world software exporters. The industry shows steady level

Competitive prices for outsource IT services (25-30 USD per hour) enabled Ukraine to fit into global marketplace of growth and sustainability, creates a demand for high-qualified and well-paid professional workforce thus being a stimulus for the school-leavers to obtain higher education.

Simplified system of taxation and competitive prices for outsourced IT services (25-30 USD per hour) enabled Ukraine to fit into

global marketplace. If the simplified taxation system is abolished, the overall IT industry can go to rack and ruin, as the majority of IT services’ providers would leave the country or “go underground”.

IT industry players place long-awaited hopes at the future stabilisation of the legislative framework, thus the EBA in conjunction with IT majors and the Government continues to modernise the taxation mechanism by launching new initiatives. Current degree of mutual understanding between business and Government makes it possible to place such reasonable expectations.

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Currently the number and qualification level of IT graduates lag behind the actual market demand.

According to the statistics, VALERY Krasovsky, only one in four graduCOO, Sigma Ukraine ates (i.e. 25% of the overall graduates’ number) is employed within the IT sphere, thus we monitor a rather alarming tendency. To encourage new specialists to enter their profile industry, IT labour marketplace needs a raft of measures aimed at modernizing high, secondary, and school systems of education. IT industry as an attractive place of work requires inner promotion and popularisation among the enrollees.

In close cooperation with top-notch technical universities and ministerial authorities the EBA has designed a portfolio of proposals including the increase of IT specialists’ number by government orders’ redistribution, redesign of educational curriculum and entitling business to take an active part in curriculums’ adaptation and tutors’ qualification refreshing. Among other aspects that need considerable attention are the improvement of universities’ facilities and equipment and innovations’ commersialization.

The EBA will cooperate with NGOs and state authorities in its strive to promote IT sector as an attractive workplace. IT offers new horizons and possibilities for the younger generation and the country’s economy, thus constructive state governance and new educational initiatives are important drivers of prospering IT labour market.

Too Little Too Late. Tax Code Amended

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IT majors to the policy-makers, as the intensified tax burden could lead to IT specialists’ flow-out and domestic prices’ increase.

The EBA advocates tax regime simplification, IT educational reform, and the upgrade of customs and labour legislation. First and foremost, Ukraine should adopt world tax-free or reduced-tax practices for IT sector. We propose to set 5% rate for the income tax and 6% for social security tax. The grounds for such rates are calculated on the basis of domestic market trends and world experience (in China, the income tax and the social security tax amount 2.5% and 10%, in Brazil 0% and 10%, in Georgia 0% and 0% respectively).

mmediately after the Tax Code had been published, it became obvious that it requires significant improvement. On 7 July 2011 the Ukrainian Parliament passed a law (bill # 8217; henceforth “the Law”) introducing chanwwe Tax Code. However, the final text of the legislation is not available yet for the general public.

The community hoped that the Law would eliminate a number of material defects that exist in the current version of the Tax Code. Thorough review of the available text of the Law suggests that, regrettably, the lawmakers failed to introduce badly-needed improvements to the Code.

There have been some positive changes, but they are insufficient to alter this conclusion.

Below is a brief and non-exhaustive review of what has been changed.

Tax administration • The Law has revised the rights of the tax authorities and taxpayers (in particular those related to tax audits, defining tax liability and obtaining information from taxpayers).

• The procedure by which the tax authorities provide tax rulings has been specified (in particular, a 30-day deadline has been established for replying).

• Deadlines for submitting tax returns in electronic form have been formally established (no later than close of business on the date the tax return is due).

• The Law allows taxpayers to adjust customs declarations (unlike the current text of the Tax Code).

• Taxpayers’ rights to adjust tax returns during the tax authorities’ audits have been further limited.

Tax penalties • The Law has revised the procedure for and rates of tax penalties.

A penalty rate of 25% will apply for first-time violations. The penalty will be 50% for repeated violations (the 75% penalty has been abolished).

• The Law has repealed tax penalties for overstatement of CPT losses.

The imperfect wording of the relevant provision may, however, allow the tax authorities to apply penalties for overstatement of VAT receivable.

Corporate profit tax (CPT) • The Law has provided for the possibility of applying IFRS where the Tax Code refers to financial accounting standards for taxpayers who have to apply IFRS for financial accounting purposes.

• Production overhead will be included into the cost of goods sold, which is in line with Ukrainian and international accounting standards (previously it was reflected as other expenses).

• The Law has allowed for deduction of non-creditable VAT input incurred by VAT payers who apply VAT on the margin.

• Employers will be able to deduct compensation to employees as established by agreement of the parties (a collective agreement is no longer required for deduction).

• The Law has introduced default terms for the use of intangible assets for the purposes of depreciation (10 years, unless the title document provides for another term).

CPT: Specific transactions • The Law has confirmed the right of taxpayers to deduct expenses for purchasing securities from the issuer (at the moment of the sale of

the securities). The previous wording of the provision allowed the tax authorities to claim the non-deductibility of such expenses.

• The Law has prolonged the period for applying a 30% threshold for deductibility of provision by banks until 1 January 2013.

• The definition of bad debts has been slightly amended.

CPT: Non-residents • The Law has amended the definition of a non-resident’s permanent establishment and related provisions. In line with internationally accepted principles, independent agents will no longer qualify as permanent establishments. It is unclear, however, how the extent of the agent’s dependence will be measured.

• The Tax Code provision requiring additional registration of residents that act on behalf of non-residents has been repealed.

CPT: Transitional provisions • The Law has allowed deduction of interest expenses from related parties that were not deducted due to the restrictions of the CPT Law. • Similarly, the Law has confirmed the right of taxpayers to utilize the amount of advanced CPT on dividends incurred before 1 April 2011.

• The Law has confirmed that expenses related to acquisition of inventory borne before 1 April 2011 will be deductible under the Tax Code upon sale of these inventories.

Value added tax • The Law has lightened the voluntary VAT registration requirements.

• Deadlines for registering VAT invoices have been set (20 calendar days following the date of their issue).

• The Law has slightly amended the eligibility criteria for simplified (“automatic”) VAT refund.

• The procedure of input VAT allocation between VAT-able and exempt supplies has been specified.

• The Law has significantly changed the taxation of grain crops and industrial crops and import of grain and industrial crops.

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Sick nation So now we know that, in a well-lit and packed restaurant in Luhansk, a man can beat a woman for 20 minutes – punch her, yank her out of a booth by her arm and drag her along the floor by her hair – and nobody will do anything. Most men and women in the restaurant will just sit there, smoking and drinking. These 14 minutes of video that came out last week revealed much that is wrong in Ukraine. In the July 4 incident, Roman Landik – a 37-year-old Luhansk city council member and recently married son of a pro-presidential Party of Regions parliamentarian – is seen pummeling 20-year-old Maria Korshunova. She remains hospitalized.

The incident highlights indifference, violent sexism and societal rot.

An alert restaurant manager, security guard or waitress could have stopped this beating. There was plenty of time for police to arrive if someone had called. But the video shows no law enforcement on the scene. Did no one act because they knew Landik's father is close to President Viktor Yanukovych?

Born the same year that Ukraine declared its independence, the victim grew up in a nation filled with upheaval and poverty. Many had jobless, absent or alcoholic fathers. Some families were held together by an overworked and underpaid mother. Many girls were raised to think that their beauty and sexuality are their main assets. This all may or may not apply to the victim.

In the decade-long era of ex-President Leonid Kuchma, his family and friends became super rich as many Ukrainians got mired in poverty and ignorance, drifting hopelessly in a cloud of cheap alcohol, cheap cigarettes and menial jobs. Others became overachievers. Millions just fled abroad. This is the result of “Kuchma-ism,” a system in which Soviet riches were doled out to favored insiders while everyone else toiled for their daily bread. Yanukovych is accentuating this patronage system.

It is no secret that many of Ukraine’s wealthy display the crudeness and bad character that often comes with riches that are not earned honestly.

Embarrassed authorities issued an arrest warrant for Landik, but he had enough time and access to flee to neighboring Russia. Under pressure, the Party of Regions expelled him. It’s admirable, but doubtful that such swift action would have happened if the authorities had not been confronted with the videotape. Many worse crimes go unrecorded every day.

They need to be prosecuted. And everyone living in this nation, citizens and guests alike should examine the societal sicknesses that this tragedy highlights and work together to cure them.

Putinization Masked and armed agents from the security services this week launched raids at a series of companies connected with a leading tycoon linked to former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

The raids at tire producer Rosava, Finance & Credit bank and pharmaceutical company Arterium, among other companies – all owned by businessman Kostyantyn Zhevago – sparks concerns that President Viktor Yanukovych and his allies are increasingly seeking to assert their authority across the Ukraine’s political and economic life.

The ongoing trial of Tymoshenko on charges of abuse of power and probes into a dozen of her political allies are politically motivated attempts to squeeze the president’s main opponent out of the running in future parliamentary and presidential elections. The pressure on Zhevago – who has adopted a neutral political attitude in recent months, despite being a lawmaker in Tymoshenko’s bloc – raises concerns that legal pressure is now spreading wider.

It could be the start of a campaign, similar to the one pursued in the 2000s by then-Russian President Vladimir Putin, to force the powerful oligarchs to fall into line behind Yanukovych. Most of the country’s leading oligarchs – such as steel magnate Rinat Akhmetov and gas and chemicals tycoon Dmytro Firtash – are supporters of Yanukovych. But Yanukovych appears to want to send a message to all the powerful businessmen, including his supporters, who control much of the country’s economy and politics, in order to demonstrate who is now calling the shots.

In 2003, Putin had Russia’s then-richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, arrested and later jailed. He had made the mistake of funding opposition parties. With this move, Putin send a clear message to Russia’s other oligarchs that they were either with him or against him and that he had the power to decide their fate.

It’s too early to say for sure whether the raids on Zhevago’s firms by Yanukovych’s henchmen will be the first steps in a similar campaign. But it certainly looks that way.

This newspaper is no supporter of the oligarchs, who have pillaged this country’s resources for two decades for great personal financial gain. But having them all dancing to Yanukovych’s tune would be an even worse situation, and bring Ukraine closer to Putin-style authoritarianism.

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Where are you going? We have important laws to debate and vote on?

We have more important things to do. We are going to the Sting concert.

As usual, you can vote on our behalf.

NEWS ITEM: Parliament on July 7 approved pension legislation, increasing retirement ages for women and moving Ukraine closer to unfreezing a $15 billion International Monetary Fund loan program. You would think that lawmakers would pay special attention to the law, considering its importance. But opposition deputies and observers said that many lawmakers of the 248 who allegedly supported the law were not actually in parliament. Some of them were spotted at a concert in Kyiv by British rock star Sting. Ahead of the vote, Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn called them back.

“I ask the Secretariat to return the deputies to the hall … including the ones at the Sting concert,” he said. Ultimately, the law passed as lawmakers voted on behalf of colleagues using their voting cards, an unconstitutional practice.

Mr President, time to stop digging yourself into a hole DAVID J. K RA MER, DA MON WIL SON A ND ROBERT NURICK

To: Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine From: Three American friends of Ukraine Mr. President, Since winning the February 2010 presidential election in a free and fair process, you have achieved many positive things for your country. Your ruling majority in parliament just adopted much-needed pension reform; the endless infighting that characterized your predecessor’s administration has come to an end; and as part of your overall efforts to deepen integration into Europe and its institutions, your government has made significant progress in finalizing free-trade and association agreements with the European Union.

But the good you have accomplished is in jeopardy unless you arrest the slide you and your government are on in the areas of democracy and human rights. For those who wish your country well, those trends are deeply disturbing.

A particularly prominent example of the deteriorating situation is the relentless prosecution of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, whom you defeated in the second round of last year’s election. Her case has come to be viewed throughout the international community as a gross misuse of the legal process to persecute leading political opponents.

But hers is not the only worrisome example. Yuriy Lutsenko, Interior Minister in Tymoshenko’s government, has also been a major victim of highly questionable prosecutorial zeal, having been relegated to jail since last December. Your representatives argue that investigations are being conducted against more than 400 current officials, but none of these cases appears to be directed against individuals of comparable status and political importance.

Most critically, the process by which such prosecutions are being conducted lacks credibility both inside and outside Ukraine. Four different criminal investigations have been launched against Tymoshenko.

This creates the appearance that the security services and prosecutor general’s office are out of control – that they are seeking something, anything, to hold against her

Æ Relentless prosecutions of Tymoshenko, other Yanukovych opponents lack credibility so that she can be convicted and thereby be deemed ineligible to participate in future elections. That the European Human Rights Court will be examining this case reflects the firm belief that the judicial system in Ukraine is being exploited for political purposes, a view firmly inconsistent with European values and norms.

Mr. President, you need to put a stop to this immediately.

Late last week amid growing criticism over the Tymoshenko case, you rejected any notion of intervening. If the judicial processes were respected as fair and impartial, this would be the right course to take. But when they lack credibility, as they do here, failure to put a stop to them can only do grave damage to your EU integration push, leaving you without a critical balance in relations with your big neighbor Russia.

Selective prosecutions aren’t the only area of concern.

The conduct of last October’s local elections fell far short of democratic standards, breaking a positive trend of some five years of elections in which Ukraine met the “free and fair” test. The security services have assumed a more prominent role in society and are responsible for applying unwarranted pressure against civil society activists (foreign and domestic) and journalists. Parliament has become more like a rubberstamp. Corruption, always a problem in Ukraine, remains a huge challenge at all levels of the government.

Policy on education, religion, and language fosters fragmentation and infighting rather than national unity.

To be clear, as longtime supporters of Ukraine, we are no fans of the previous administration. The endless bickering between President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko had a paralyzing effect on policy. This was a period marked by economic crisis and ineffective Æ5

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Nervousness about Ukraine exaggerated ADRIAN K A R AT N Y C K Y

“I wear this wristband in solidarity with the people of Belarus. I sincerely hope that we will not be wearing similar bracelets in support of Ukraine.” This was the dramatic declaration by Freedom House Executive Director David Kramer at a recent Washington D.C. panel in which I also took part.

The sense of alarm in Kramer’s comparison of Ukraine under President Viktor Yanukovych with Belarus under Alexander Lukashenko underscored the nervousness with which Ukraine’s ruling elite is viewed by many in the human rights community.

At the root of this nervousness is the ongoing prosecution of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, which has cast a pall on Ukraine’s not inconsiderable institutional flaws.

Last year, when I spoke at a similar Ukraine conference organized by leading U.S. think tanks, a controversial deal ceding long-term basing rights in Ukraine to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet was met with elevated rhetoric and dire predictions. Then, as now, I was in the minority arguing Ukraine was not veering dangerously in the wrong direction. Ukraine was not tilting toward Russia, I argued, predicting that the coming year would see a differentiated foreign policy that would maintain good relations with Russia and the U.S., expand Ukraine’s trade and political links with Asia, and press toward integration into the European Union.

This year, no criticisms were voiced about Ukraine’s foreign policy. Instead, Washington’s leading experts declared that Kyiv has seriously pursued security cooperation with the EU and NATO, has made the most progress of any Ukrainian government toward deeper relations with the EU, and is moving impressively toward a comprehensive trade pact with Europe. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the conference keynote speaker, joined in praising Yanukovych’s defense of Ukraine’s national and foreign policy interests.

Today’s talk about Ukraine’s drift toward authoritarianism is exaggerated and colored preponderantly by the prosecution of Ms. Tymoshenko.

Indeed, just a few days before Kramer was sounding the alarm on Ukraine, Freedom House released its long-term study of trends in the post-communist world, Nations in Transit (NIT). I happen to know something about the survey and its uses, as I conceived and developed it in 1996.

The survey is a crucial and respected indicator of trends in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Its findings merit a closer look.

According to Freedom House’s own data, there are numerous reasons why we should not believe that Ukraine is falling off the democratic precipice.

According to the 2011 NIT report, Ukraine’s rating for electoral processes stands at 3.50 and is identical to the rating it had in 2005, the first year of Orange rule, and the same as in 2009, the last year of President Viktor Yushchenko’s presidency.

Moreover, the 2011 survey’s assessment of the strength and independence of civil society shows Ukraine at 2.75 (the same rating as in the Yushchenko years 2006-2010) and a better rating that the 3.00 registered in 2005 – the year of the Orange Revolution.

Media independence declined from a rating of 3.5 to 3.75, a judgement justified by the increasingly uncriti-

VOX populili WITH A ANASTASIA FORINA

Luhansk city council deputy Roman Landyk, son of pro-presidential lawmaker and influential businessman Volodymyr Landik, was caught on video brutally beating up a 20-year-old girl. What does the future hold for him?

Christina Kravets Waitress “The court won’t send him to prison.

Landik will, for sure, get away with what he did.

At the most, he will face a small fine.

In our country, as you know, authorities would rather jail innocent people than their offspring.”

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (L) and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko enter a hall to attend the Commonwealth of Independent States summit in the Russian presidential residence in Gorki, outside of Moscow, on May 8, 2010. AFP

cal tone of television news (though balanced by the freewheeling discourse on popular political talk shows). However, even this decline means Ukraine’s media freedoms are on a par with EU members Bulgaria and Romania, and incipient EU member Croatia. Moreover, Ukraine’s electoral processes are sounder than in Georgia, Moldova, and Kosovo. And Ukrainian civil society operates with greater freedom and vitality than Georgia’s.

In the end, according to Freedom House, Ukraine remains the most open of the non-Baltic Soviet states with an overall democracy score significantly better than that of Georgia. But few people in Washington or Brussels would assert that Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili is dangerously close to becoming another Lukashenko.

Few also would disagree that there has not been modest deterioration in the state of democracy in Ukraine, in large measure due to the excessive presence of an over-staffed and over-active Ukrainian security service, which numbers over 25,000 personnel (the comparable figure for Britain’s MI-5 is around 5,000). It is also due to the introduction of a stronger “law and order” approach that is being implemented by a procuracy and militia inclined to prosecute and rigorously enforce even the pettiest provisions of the law, frequently against political opponents.

This brings me back to the three unmistakable facts on which most everyone in Europe and Washington agrees: First, Ukraine’s elite is seriously committed to closer relations with the EU and eventual membership; second, Ukraine’s justice system lacks independence and is suspected of political bias; third, Tymoshenko’s prosecution has seriously damaged Ukraine’s reputation, and if it results in her imprisonment, can derail or delay Ukraine’s free trade agreement with Europe and its EU integration hopes.

As the leader of the largest and best financed opposition political force in Ukraine, Tymoshenko has the resources and the charisma to mount a spirited

defense at home and abroad. Her guilt or innocence is not the issue. No one in the West trusts the objectivity of Ukraine’s justice system to render a fair verdict and few in the West believe policy decisions, even when harmful to national interest, should be subjected to criminal prosecution.

On the day of our Washington conference, Ukraine’s parliament adopted a land titling law that points the way to private ownership of land and voted for a farreaching – if imperfect – pension reform legislation that will improve the economic viability of Ukraine’s retirement system. But these tangible accomplishments were obscured by the attention garnered by the Tymoshenko trial.

Ukraine’s President and ruling elite have made the strategic choice of European integration and they well understand that this aim cannot be achieved without adherence to fundamental democratic practices.

Warnings by many of Europe’s and North America’s key leaders about the dangers to Ukraine’s European integration posed by the appearance of politically motivated prosecutions are without question reaching Ukraine’s leaders. Moreover, I am convinced that the current leadership team understands that national cohesiveness and political stability should be preserved. These two factors are more likely than not to lead to some sort of soft landing in the Tymoshenko case.

If that happens, Brussels and Washington will refocus their attention on the serious reforms Ukraine has undertaken, and dire talk about Ukraine’s authoritarian path will be banished from the political discourse.

Adrian Karatnycky is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. For over a decade, he was president and executive director of Freedom House, a pro-democracy watchdog based in Washington, D.C., where he originated the Nations in Transit survey and presided over the annual Survey of Freedom.

Experts: Trends are disturbing Æ4 governance. Corruption, especially concerning the 2006 gas deal with Russia, was a huge problem.

It is hardly surprising then that the administration fell woefully short of the expectations that accompanied the 2004 Orange Revolution.

The five years that followed the Orange Revolution were a wasted opportunity. Ukraine cannot afford to head in the wrong direction for five more years. That is why we urge you to step in and put a stop to these anti-democratic actions before it is too late, before

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you leave the EU with no option but to suspend negotiations.

Left unchecked, the current trends in your country will move Ukraine toward kleptocracy and authoritarianism. That is not what you were elected to do, and it certainly would be disastrous for your country.

It is time to show leadership, Mr. President. There is a popular and wise saying in the West: when you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop dig-

ging – in other words, don’t make the situation worse by continuing with the actions that have created this serious situation in the first place. It is still not too late, but time is not on your side.

David J. Kramer is president of Freedom House, a pro-democracy watchdog based in Washington, D.C.; Damon Wilson is executive vice president of the Atlantic Council, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank; and Robert Nurick is a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council.

Dmytro Serdiuk Technical engineer “Of course he will escape punishment.

I don’t think we can expect any other result in Ukraine. He is the son of an influential businessman and lawmaker close to [President Viktor] Yanukovych. So, so it’s clear that the court will find him innocent or just impose a symbolic fine.”

Larysa Tkach Accountant “Are you kidding? There is no justice in our country. I don’t believe that it’s possible for our authorities to place justice above politics. Landik will be fined or put on probation. The court won’t put him into prison.”

Olena Bulka Sportswoman “Officials in Ukraine can’t be punished, they live with impunity. Thus, the court will clear him. If this crime was conducted by an ordinary person, he would face justice. But in our country, pro-presidential people are favored by courts and prosecution.”

Volodymyr Zhuk Musical director “Landik lifted his hand against a woman, so he deserves to be punished. But the authorities will let him off lightly.

I am sure of it. In a way, I wish that it would have been the girl of one of the Klitschko brothers (heavyweight boxing champions) that he hit. I’m sure Klitschko would give him what he deserved.”

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Milkiland CEO: Ukraine short of cows to milk, dairy prices surge

BY V L A D L AV R OV LAVROV@KYIVPOST.COM

A shortage of cows, lack of organized livestock breeding and bureaucratic barriers have caused dairy prices to surge, the head of a leading Ukrainian dairy company told the Kyiv Post in an interview.

U.K.-native Frederick Aherne, CEO of Milkiland, a leading Ukrainian dairy producer, said the market is suffering from a shortage of quality cows and milk. According to Aherne, Ukraine’s stock of cows has decreased tenfold in the past two decades.

Typically, dairy product prices fall in the summer, Aherne said. But for the first time in years, they are skyrocketing this summer, he added. Prices on dairy products have sharply risen this year on top of a 20 percent increase last year, according to Kyiv-based investment bank Dragon Capital.

“There is simply not enough milk in the country. There are two million

cows in the country now, versus 20 million in 1991-1992. This is a key problem for the state,” Aherne said.

To remedy the situation, Aherne is calling for government to lift choking restrictions on business in the country.

He said his company is also seeking to encourage cow-owning villagers spread across the country to boost efficiency by bringing their cows under consolidated management within cooperatives.

“Milk in Ukraine is more expensive than milk in the EU, believe it or not.

The cost of milk in the EU should be the highest as they have the highest labor and feed costs, but the cost of milk to process is the highest here,” Aherne said.

“The reason why we are pushing for the cooperatives is to improve the quality of milk that we receive. Here, we do not get the cheese yield that we would if it was top-quality milk in terms of protein and fat content. We are fighting every day to get the best cheese yield that we can, but we take

what we get. Here, we pay on the average Hr 3 [$0.38] per liter. My colleagues in the U.K. are currently paying around 19 pence [$0.30],” Aherne added.

In the interview published in English on kyivpost.com and in Ukrainian language on kyivpost.ua, Aherne also called on the government to crack down on misleading labeling. In the widespread practice, domestic producers fail to reveal to consumers that their dairy products contain less milk and more substitutes such as palm oil and soy.

“I don’t want to say that I am against the way the state manages the food industry, but the reality is that all the members of European Business Association dairy committee are pushing for labeling legislation that is strictly controlled, where you have to clearly say if this is a milk product, if the raw material comes from a cow and there is nothing else. Everybody knows that many companies ignore it,” he said.

Kyiv Post staff writer Vlad Lavrov can be reached at lavrov@kyivpost.com

Ukraine has 18 million fewer cows grazing on its rich agriculture land (above) than it did in Soviet days. (Yaroslav Debelyi)

Domino’s Pizza aims for bigger slice of hungry Kyiv market, launches third city restaurant

BY IVA N BACH Y NSKY

This Domino’s Pizza restaurant on Heroiv Stalinhradu 12-G in Kyiv’s Obolon District is the third to open in the capital since last October. (Burdiga Dima)

Domino’s Pizza, the world’s largest pizza chain with over 9,000 restaurants in 60 countries, has tripled the number of restaurants it has in Kyiv and expanded its coverage for delivery just less than eight months after it first broke onto the market.

Operating in Ukraine through a franchise agreement with a group of Ukrainian businessmen, the American pizza delivery and restaurant company launched its third Kyiv restaurant this past weekend at Heroiv Stalinhradu 12-G, in the northern Obolon district.

Earlier in March, the group opened a second restaurant on Kyiv’s eastern bank, on Drahomanova 44-A. The first Domino’s restaurant opened its doors in Kyiv’s Podil district last October on Konstraktova Square 2/1.

If your neighborhood is not yet covered for pizza delivery by Domino’s, you may not have to wait long. The company’s Ukrainian investors, part of the Kiev-Donbas group, said they plan to launch about 10 Domino’s pizzerias in Ukraine each year.

Domino’s is one of the first international fast food chains to expand in Ukraine after McDonalds, and is

the first to do so through franchise agreements. According to reports, Dunkin Donuts and Wendy’s are close to breaking onto the Ukrainian market via franchise agreements with regional businessmen.

McDonalds, the world’s largest fast food company, has in contrast built up a 60-plus chain of restaurants as part of a corporate investment. The under-developed nature of franchise businesses in Ukraine coupled with lack of consistency of supplies for the fast food business has until now kept such franchise-based businesses out of the country since independence.

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Akhmetov’s mushrooming Metinvest metallurgical group snaps up another steel mill Kyiv's Leipzig hotel

EBRD approves $30 million loan to help revamp Leipzig hotel Kyiv Post Staff – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has approved a $30 million loan to finance development and reconstruction of Leipzig hotel, an architectural landmark located in the very heart of Kyiv on the corner of Volodymyrska and Prorizna streets.

Anton Usov, spokesperson for the EBRD in Ukraine, said the bank’s board approved the loan on July 12.

A formal loan agreement should be signed this autumn, he added.

Reconstruction of the building commenced about a year ago.

It is being developed by ISTIL Group, a diversified Kyiv-based investment group that is owned by Pakistani-born British national Mohammad Zahoor.

Zahoor also owns the Kyiv Post.

Management at ISTIL said about $70 million is being invested into the 16,800 square meter and 178-room hotel which was originally built in 1900.

ISTIL’s real estate arm purchased the building in 2009.

Kyiv Post Staff – Rinat Akhmetov, reputably Ukraine’s richest man and a strong backer of President Viktor Yanukovych, has further strengthened his grip over Ukraine’s lucrative steel industry.

Metinvest, the largest steel holding in Ukraine which Akhmetov co-owns with partners, announced on July 8 that it had inked an agreement to acquire a 50-percent stake in Zaporizhstal, one of the nation’s top-five producers.

In a statement, Metinvest said it had agreed buy the stake in Zaporizhstal from Industrial Group, which is reportedly owned by domestic businessmen.

Metinvest said agreements signed also gave it an “option� over the remaining 50 percent stake in Zaporizhstal, which analysts say is controlled by either domestic or Russian business groups. “We estimate Metinvest paid about $450 million for the 50-percent stake in Industrial Group, valuing it at about $900 million,� Dragon Capital said in a July 11 note to investors.

The acquisition comes days after Metinvest announced a 31-percent rise in profits for 2010 in year-on-year terms. The company’s consolidated net profit surged to $437 million in 2010 from $334 million a year earlier on higher output and revenues, Reuters reported on July 1.

The privately-held firm increased its revenue to $9.4 billion in 2010 from $6 billion in 2009, its audited financial report showed.

Metinvest owns iron ore and coal mines, ore enrichment plants, smelters and other connected companies in Ukraine and abroad.

The Zaporizhstal acquisition comes months after Metinvest added Illich Metallurgical Plant, one of Ukraine’s top three producers, to its impressive portfolio of steel mills, ore producers and coal mines spanning from Ukraine into Europe, where it owns rolling mills in Italy and the UK, and further across the Atlantic into the U.S. It also follows a $1 billion purchase by Metinvest of a U.S. coal company during the 2009 recession.

The flurry of acquisition further lift Metinvest – which increased steel output to 13.8 million tons in 2010 from 12.8 million the year before – higher into the rank of top world steel industry players. Prior to the purchase, Metinvest already owned two of Ukraine’s three largest steel mills in Ukraine – Azovstal and Illich – giving a dominant position in a country ranked as one of the world’s largest steel producers and exporters. The group also controls a large share of Ukraine’s vast ore and coal mining production capacity and reserves. “The group’s main asset is Zaporizhstal, an integrated flat steel producer with annual capacity of 4.5 million tons of crude steel (3.7 million tons of rolled steel). As part of the deal, Metinvest also acquired, directly

Akhmetov’s Strong Grip Over Ukraine’s Lucrative Steel Sector Steel Mill

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Percentage of Production in First Half of 2011 Total Production (Percent) (million tons)

Illich

Rinat Akhmetov’s Metinvest

3.1

17.6%

Azovstal

Rinat Akhmetov’s Metinvest

3.0

17.0%

ArcelorMittal Kryvy Rih

ArcelorMittal

2.7

15.4%

Zaporizhstal

Half by Rinat Akhmetov’s Metinvest

1.9

11.0%

Alchevsk Steel

Mysterious Russian Group, Ukraine’s ISD Group

1.9

10.8%

Dzerzhinsky Steel

Mysterious Russian Group, Ukraine’s ISD Group

1.6

9.3%

Yenakiyeve

Rinat Akhmetov’s Metinvest

1.3

7.5%

Dniprospetsstal Russian-Ukrainian Group

0.2

1.2%

Others

Not Relevant

1.8

10.2%

Total

Not Relevant

17.4

100.0%

Source: Dragon Capital, Interfax

through Industrial Group or indirectly through Zaporizhstal, stakes in iron ore producer Zaporizhia Iron Ore, coke producer Zaporizhkoks and a number of smaller companies,� Investment Capital Ukraine analyst said in a July 11 note to investors. “Gaining control over Zaporizhstal and its consolidation into Metinvest’s

steel division will mean for the holding a 27-percent increase in crude steel production capacity to about 21 million tons per annum, a 41-percent rise in plate mill production capacity to about 12 million tons per annum, and a concentration of the vast majority of Ukraine’s production of rolled-steel coil,� they added.

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One of the few synagogues in Lviv that survived Nazi occupation during World War II. (Pavlo Palamarchuk)

Krakivsky Market (top) as it looks today. The bazaar was erected in Soviet days on the site of Lviv’s Old Jewish cemetery that was dessimated by the Nazis. It’s headstones (inset) were used to pave roads and sidewalks. (Pavlo Palamarchuk)

Jewish heritage in Lviv nearly erased during World War II Æ1 Sheykhet. “It was a glorious community life that definitely shows there was harmony between Ukrainians and Jews.”

For nearly two decades, often working with limited resources, Sheykhet has tirelessly traveled throughout western Ukraine to ensure Jewish cultural remnants are preserved. It has not been an easy job for the 58-year-old, who has lived in Lviv nearly his entire life.

Not only is Sheykhet racing against time, neglect and the elements, he is also fighting apathy from some segments of the Ukrainian population, which does not always recognize Jewish culture as part of its own. For instance, since 2003 he has been at loggerheads with local officials in Sambir, a town south of Lviv, to remove three large Christian crosses erected in the Jewish part of the cemetery. Visits by international figures like former Canadian-Ukrainian parliamentarian Borys Wrzesnewskyj

Old Jewish Cemetery in Lviv at the beginning of the 20th century.

and Mark Freiman, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, have not changed local minds.

Before World War II, today’s western Ukraine boasted artifacts that reflected a culturally rich Jewish life. The landscape was dotted with cemeteries and synagogues, while towns and villages, often home to a population comprised largely of Jews, bore entire Jewish quarters, with unique religious and residential structures.

By the end of the war, much of that heritage, including some of its most precious treasures, was deliberately destroyed or desecrated by the Nazis, then later the Soviets. Lviv lost two remarkable synagogues – the ornate 16th century Golden Rose Synagogue and its surrounding religious complex, and the 19th century Temple Synagogue, a Baroque structure with a large dome.

In Lviv and Ternopil oblasts, once storied cemeteries which boasted

headstones from the 14th century became overgrown with weeds. Others became trash dumps or favorite spots for children to play in or for livestock to graze.

Other necropolises, like those in Lviv, were destroyed all together. Headstones, many elaborately decorated and telling the stories of their owner’s lives, were torn out of the ground and used to pave city streets. Lviv’s ancient Jewish cemetery became the site of a local bazaar, Krakivsky Market, where stalls and booths were erected atop ground where some of Judaism’s most revered rabbis are buried.

Sheykhet’s efforts, however, have borne fruit on a small scale, although the success is decidedly mixed. He has ensured that a fence be placed around a Jewish graveyard in Brody to keep grazing livestock at bay, although the city’s synagogue, which only a few years ago could have been saved, now has a collapsed roof that puts in doubt its resurrection.

In Ternopil’s Pidhaitsi, he was also able to get a fence placed around the cemetery, even though he had heated discussions with local authorities over where one section actually ended. He still has been unable to raise money for a desperately-needed roof to cover Pidhaitsi’s synagogue, even though it is one of the region’s oldest remaining structures of Jewish heritage.

Sheykhet has researched on several continents old maps and archival documents to locate more information about Jewish places of interest, and has obtained aerial photos to find locations where Jews were shot during the war en masse – such as in nearby Vynnyky – in western Ukraine. Now he just needs local municipalities to acknowledge and honor those places.

Sheykhet also received a $32,000

Meylakh Sheykhet, Ukraine’s representative in the Union of Councils for Jews in the former Soviet Union has worked tirelessly to preserve Jewish heritage in western Ukraine. He is standing in the midst of the remains of Lviv’s Golden Rose Synagogue, destroyed by the Germans. (Pavlo Palamarchuk)

grant from the U.S. government to fund archaeological research in 2010 at the Golden Rose Synagogue and it religious complex. Digs, however, have been suspended as he battles a developer in court who wants to build a hotel complex in the heart of Lviv’s old Jewish district. The hotel structures would incorporate a one-time yeshiva – a religious school for boys – and closely border what remains of the Golden Rose.

Recently, however, Sheykhet scored a major victory when the government in Kyiv decreed that two priority locations in Lviv have religious and historic significance. The diktats noted that Krakivsky Market was sacred ground, opening the door to its possible relocation, although everyone recognizes the difficulties involved. The other order involves Lviv’s Citadel, a 19th-century military fortress located in the middle of town that the Nazis used as a prisoner of war camp during World War II. “Jewish prisoners of war were separated from their countrymen and kept in particularly harsh conditions, stripped naked, confined in the basement, 30 men to a cell, and starved to death,” Sheykhet said. More than 144,000 inmates died of disease or were executed at the Citadel, some of them buried in mass graves in the fortress courtyard.

Jews and officers were executed at the Citadel’s main tower, which was known as the “Tower of Death,” Sheykhet said. The tower now houses a luxury hotel and restaurant.

Because the bazaar and the Citadel are now protected as part of Ukraine’s historical-cultural heritage, Sheykhet will have more room to maneuver to prevent further desecration of the cemetery at Krakivsky Market. The decrees may also finally halt plans on the part of Lviv’s municipal authorities to build a hotel complex, with a large conference center, on the Citadel.

On June 22, on the 70th anniversary of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, authorities unveiled a large cross honoring the many nationalities that perished there during the war.

The journey in preserving Jewish memory has at times been a lonely one for Sheykhet, who is single. He has watched his friends, including his sister, emigrate over the years.

Still, Sheykhet said he has no plans to give up his fight. “Who else will do it?” he asked.

Part 5: Reconciliation?

Kyiv Post staff writer Natalia A. Feduschak can be reached at feduschak@ kyivpost.com.

Ukraine’s Vanquished Jews Part 1 (June 24): Boris Orych and Western Ukraine Jews Part 2 (July 1): The Killing Grounds Part 3 (July 8): Surviving The Holocaust In Lviv Part 4 (July 15): Saving Jewish Heritage Part 5 (July 22): Reconciliation?

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Editor’s Note: With less than one year before the European soccer championship kicks off in June 2012, the Kyiv Post has launched a Euro 2012 page that will cover events from both host countries: Ukraine and Poland.

Three universities received the lion’s share of the tenders: Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University ($308,000); Dragomanov National Pedagogical University ($86,125); and Kyiv National Trade and Economic University ($64,125).

public transportation for free on match days and until noon the following day.

All aspects of the combined ticket system are currently being agreed with Europe’s top soccer governing body.

Metro stop renamed to avoid confusion On July 11, Kyivians witnessed the appearance of a new sign at the entrance to the now former “Republican Stadium” metro station. That day city workers replaced it with the name “Olympic” after the stadium, which is being re-built nearby, and where the final Euro 2012 match will take place on June 31, 2012.

On May 25, Kyiv’s city council renamed the metro station to avoid confusion among tourists and visitors.

The audio recording announcing the metro stop inside the metro train has been playing for some time.

Obolon Arena on May 21 in northern Kyiv was the site of a massive brawl between fans of Obolon Kyiv and Metallist Kharkiv soccer clubs following the final whistle of the match. (Ukrainian photo)

Euro 2012 hooligans to get punished in one day Ukrainian courts will process violators of public order within 24 hours over the course of next year’s threeweek European soccer championship, a recent parliamentary bill says.

Considered administrative offenses, the law simplifies the procedure for processing individuals who commit transgressions at “mass sporting and cultural events” Courts will consider cases in this category within 24 hours.

Detainees will be held in specially equipped rooms at sports facilities.

Meanwhile, courts have the right to ban those who cause trouble in stadiums from attending mass sports or other

entertainment activities during Euro 2012. The law also introduces a shortened consideration procedure for cases on forced deportation of foreigners and stateless persons who committed offenses. The law goes into force on June 8 and loses power 30 days after the tournament’s completion, on August 30.

Fans to travel for free in Kyiv during Euro 2012 Kyiv intends to introduce a combined ticket system during the finals of Euro 2012, reads a press release by the city administration.

This system was used in previous World Cups and European soccer championships. Fans who have tickets to Euro 2012 matches will be able to use

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Pension law will force citizens to work longer for miniscule pensions Æ1 new pension rules will take effect on Sept. 1. Many aspects of the law proved unpopular, sparking protests on the day the debate in parliament began, on July 7. But economists said the changes were necessary to shore up state finances.

Deputy Prime Minister Sergiy Tigipko said the legislation had been agreed with the IMF. It is the only way to ensure pensions would increase in the future, he added.

The more than 13 million pensioners in Ukraine account for almost onethird of the population against 20 million working people. The average pension is Hr 1,122 ($140) per month, but many pensioners, particularly those who worked in certain state roles, receive much larger sums.

Critics say the new pension legislation is unfair and inhumane in raising retirement ages in a country with a relatively low life expectancy.

It increases retirement ages for women from 55 to 60. The age will be raised by six months every year for the next 10 years. Ukrainians will also have to work 10 years longer to receive full pensions: men 35 years and women 30.

“European experience shows that the average life expectancy in European Union countries is 10-12 years higher [than in Ukraine],” opposition lawmaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk told parliament during the debate. “When you raise the retirement age and years people will work, where will Ukrainian youth go to work?”

In the past, additional years of work gained retirees extra credit, resulting in a higher pension. Now extra years of work will be mandatory.

The maximum amount of salary that can be taxed for contributions to the

pension fund was also limited to Hr 14,400. Top earners will not have to contribute above that level, which is fifteen times the size of minimum wage in Ukraine. The maximum pension that a typical Ukrainian can receive was set at 10 times the living wage of a disabled person per month, currently Hr 7,640, or just under $1,000. Before, there was no restriction.

The lawmakers, however, decided not to extend the provisions to themselves, instead leaving their pension at 80-90 percent of the monthly salary of a deputy, or over Hr 15,000.

State officials were hit hard by the pension reform. Previously, prosecutors, judges and scientists had received pensions according to special laws.

State officials will now enter mandatory retirement at 62, although they will be eligible for pensions from 60. Pensions will be paid out at 80 percent of salary, rather than the current 90 percent, although that change won’t affect workers in prosecutors’ offices.

The question now is whether President Yanukovych will sign the bill into law. Amid falling ratings, he could look to increase his popularity by vetoing the unpopular bill, although this would hamper negotiations with the IMF over further loans.

The opposition has pledged to take the fight to the Constitutional Court.

Analysts, however, give them little chance of success. The court can rule only on certain provisions, rather than the document as a whole. In any case, the court is seen as being loyal to the president, they say.

Kyiv Post staff writer Maria Shamota can be reached at shamota@kyivpost. com

Visual interpreters to be used during Euro 2012 Ukrainian rescuers will be able to communicate with hearing impaired Euro 2012 fans using visual language interpreters. Ukraine’s Ministry of Emergency Situations will provide 310 such “guides” in the four Ukrainian host cities, according to Vitaliy But, the ministry’s deputy head.

“We received 310 visual language interpreters from the U.S. State Department Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement. These devices will be distributed between the regions that will host the tournament,” he said.

Donetsk authorities plan to evict homeless Paweł Janas is one of many “friends” of Euro 2012 picked by Poland.

Associations announced.

Former Polish internationals Pawel Janas and Wlodzimierz Smolarek, exOlympic fencer Ryszard Parulski and singer Patrycja Markowska were introduced on Polish TV on July 12. They take the total of Polish friends of Euro 2012 to 51, to be joined by 49 competition winners and 100 others from co-hosts Ukraine.

Civil Servants to learn European manners The Senior Civil Service Corps School awarded tenders totaling $470,000 on June 20 for universities to improve the foreign language knowledge of public servants and to give lessons on European and Euro-Atlantic integration, according to the Public Procurement Journal.

The director of Donetsk’s city shelter for the homeless, Mykola Fedoruk, doesn’t think Euro 2012 fans should see the city’s down-on-their-luck residents.

“Droves of people will come who’ll see people digging in garbage cans,” said Fedoruk in June.

“This is embarrassing, a nuisance and not good for us. Therefore we came up with an initiative before the city’s mayor to create living conditions during the [soccer] games.” Law enforcement officials have offered to place the homeless in a former military base located between Donetsk and Makiyivka.

“There are good living conditions there – running water in the barracks, heating. A camp city can be erected for the summer period with food,” said Fedorchuk. Citing police figures, BBC reported that there are more than 16,000 people without roofs over their heads in Donetsk oblast.

Poland picks last batch of Euro 2012 friends Two World Cup semi-finalists, an Olympian and singer became Poland’s last celebrity friends of the soccer tournament, the Union of European Soccer

An estimated 16,000 homeless people live in Donetsk Oblast.

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Kazakhstan brides dress Ukrainian

Kazakh people often buy Ukrainian-made wedding dresses.

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The man passing through customs at Boryspil airport in Kyiv dragging two bulging bags was bound to attract attention.

But when law enforcers stopped the traveler to Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, and ordered him to open his bags, even they were surprised at what they found – 30 wedding dresses.

This wannabe wedding tycoon was one of four caught so far this year attempting to carry marital garments out of Boryspil to Kazakhstan or Turkmenistan in Central Asia. The illicit trade is fueled by the popularity

of Ukrainian wedding dresses in those countries, where they are known for their high quality and low prices. “Ukrainian dresses account for 80 percent of the Kazakh wedding market,� said Dinara Amirova, who coowns two wedding boutique with her mother in Astana. “I myself got married in a wedding dress from Ukraine eight years ago,� she added.

Both of Amirova’s boutiques – called Aru, or “beauty� in Kazakh – sell only dresses from Ukraine. She said garments sewn in Kazakhstan are of poor quality and unreasonably expensive.

Amirova said she can easily pick out a dress made in Ukraine by its quality of material, cut and design. “Some people also bring dresses from China, but it’s

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The popularity of Ukrainian wedding dresses is perhaps surprising, given that Ukrainian women largely prefer foreign-made clothes to locallydesigned attire. Amirova put it down to a desire to look European, but at a price that’s easier on the wallet.

In some exclusive boutiques in Astana it’s possible to find wedding dresses from France or Italy, but demand for them is significantly lower than for the more affordable Ukrainian dresses. While you can buy a dress from Ukraine for $200-$1,000, for the Italian garment you will have to

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Her family business is booming. It’s not all her work: While she sells the dresses in Astana, her mother takes charge of the most difficult part of the business – bringing dresses from Bukovyna region in the far west of Ukraine. The import route is long, winding and not always legal.

After the four-hour flight from Astana to Kyiv, the purchaser usually travels to Chernivtsi by bus or taxi. “People from all of the post-Soviet states go there,â€? said Amirova. “Mama says Chernivtsi lives on revenues from wedding dresses.â€? Æ13

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Night N O Owl WITH ALINA CHERNYSH CHE CHERNYSH@KYIVP CHERNYSH@KYIVPOST.COM

Tropical retreat in Mai Tai lounge bar Dark and light rum, orange liqueur, a dash of Grenadine, triple sec or pineapple juice. There are many recipes of the famous Mai Tai cocktail offered in Kyiv bars, but now we can try the original one in a lounge-bar of the same name.

Trader Vic’s, the international chain that claims to have mixed this very first sunny, rum-based drink in 1940s, opened the Polynesian wooden doors to Mai Tai lounge-bar in the city center in May. The tropical retreat has an exotic atmosphere that brings to mind Hawaii or Indonesia. The first restaurant, though, was opened in Oakland, California. Now, there are 26 restaurants and bars all over the world in Trader Vic’s family.

Swirling to the sounds of salsa, I was impressed by how different this club is compared to all others I’ve seen in Kyiv. Waitresses in Hawaiian flower necklaces and long skirts make sure guests enjoy themselves and dance a lot. Mai Tai doesn’t have a designated dance floor, but it’s not a problem as people dance in all five lounges, which are decorated with statues of the Polynesian gods tikis, tribal masks and ceremonial drums.

The beach-holiday atmosphere appeals to many businesses that often throw parties here, including the recent American Independence Day event on July 4. A barmen show, a karaoke battle and an Elvis impersonator as the host made the evening remarkable. While the parties are fun and Hawaiian waitresses friendly, I still think Mai Tai has been overused lately as nearly all networking events and major holidays take place here. You can have too much of a good thing.

On the other hand, I can see why people flock here day and night. Its special culture with aboriginal flavor, summer undertones and plain happiness is very alluring. I noticed many cool Ukrainians, happy Americans and other expats who seem to feel at home.

As you may have noticed, most clubs and restaurants in Kyiv like to impress their guests with unusual bathroom designs. In Mai Tai’s, the lavatory has the shape of a huge pumpkin with a few doors. In fact, during the busiest hours, it seems like you are playing the game of running around the pumpkin in circles, trying to find an open door.

It is another proof that Mai Tai is a lot of fun and a must for anyone looking for an upgrade of their night life and the original Mai Tai cocktail formula.

Alina Chernysh works for the ISTIL Group, which is owned by the publisher of the Kyiv Post.

Trader Vic’s Mai Tai 66 Velyka Vasylkivska St. www.maitai.com.ua Open: 12 pm – 6 am Entrance fees to night parties from Hr 100.

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Friday-Sunday, July 15-17

Jamala and The Maneken

Friday, July 22

Jazzy pop singer Jamala will share the stage of Arena Concert Plaza with housemusic stars The Maneken in a joint concert. It’s a natural combination as the two have worked together for some time. The founder of The Maneken, Evgeniy Futskiy (aka DJ Major), has been a star of Ukrainian house-music since 2002. The Maneken will perform from its second album “Soulmate Sublime,” and Jamala will present tracks from her debut record “For Every Heart,” which was produced by Futskiy.

Jamala is the stage name of Kyrgyz singer Susanna Dzhamaladinova, known for her powerful voice. She started winning different musical competitions at the age of 16 and took first place in the famous “New Wave” event in Jurmala, Latvia in 2009.

Friday, July 22, 8 p.m., Arena Concert Plaza, 2 A Baseyna St., 222-8040, metro Ploscha Lva Tolstoho, www.arena-kiev.com.ua. Tickets: Hr 200.

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If you love dancing but typical nightclubs are not your thing, join in with the crowd of tango- or salsa-lovers who regularly come together in open-air venues, turn on some Spanish music and start dancing.

Tango is the music of choice every Saturday at the Vernissage Master-Klass cafe that holds evenings of Argentinean tango.

They have it all: performances by some tango pros and lessons for those who are only starting.

Every Saturday at 7 p.m., Master-Klass cultural center, 34 Mazepy St., metro Arsenalna, www.masterklass. org/eng, 594-1063. Free admission.

If the intimacy of tango is too much for you, and all you want to do is just lose yourself in the moves, salsa is a great option.

Often associated with a beach culture, salsa clubs in Kyiv also tend to gravitate towards the water of the Dnipro River. Some salsa lovers recommend heading to the R&B café at Hydropark (on Sundays, from noon till 6 p.m., free admission) where you dance right on the beach, while others prefer Cuba club on Trukhaniv island (Sundays, 7 p.m., free admission).

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Getting high with parachuters There are several sports that involve hurtling through the air with nothing keeping you up but a strip of canopy, but canopy piloting is surely one of the most exciting for spectators. This weekend there’ll be a competition involving all types of maneuvering through a course and staying airborne for as long as possible before landing on. That’s no mean skill, and requires a fair bit of bravery as well as talent.

Friday - Sunday, July 15-17, 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Borodyanka airfield, buses available from metro Svyatoshyn (Hr 12), paraskuf.com.ua, 553-2643, (067)733-5818.

Free admission.

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If you are afraid of swimming in the Dnipro River, a giant water park opens on July 15 in the Dream Town shopping mall in Kyiv. The park, called Dream Island, will feature 14 waterslides and five pools, each with a special theme. In addition, there will be nine types of saunas, including some exotic ones, like Indian or Egyptian. Covering 24,000 square meters, Dream Island is set to become the largest park in Ukraine, overtaking Terminal in the Kyiv suburb of Brovary by some 4,500 square meters. The owners say the complex has a capacity of 3,500 people and promise that there is much more to the park than just traditional water fun. Various parties will be held at weekends, where the visitors will even be able to set up tents near the pools and sing songs to a guitar.

From Friday July 15, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., (Friday and Saturday till 11 p.m.), Dream Town, 1B Obolonsky Prospekt., metro Minska or Obolon, 428-3611.Tickets: Hr 120-240.

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From Friday, July 15

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New waterpark at Obolon

Sunday, July 31

Robert Plant

Robert Plant is a British singersongwriter best-known as vocalist in legendary rock band Led Zeppelin. He will rock Kyiv with his new album, “Band of Joy,” spiced up with Led Zeppelin’s hits. Plant started his solo career in 1982, producing successful records on his own, playing duets with such icons as Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin and creating short-term bands. He brought together the Band of Joy last year, the same name as his very first group in the 1960s. This year Plant decided to surprise Kyivans and invite rock band North Mississippi Allstars from Memphis to join the concert. They have released 11 albums and won a Grammy for best contemporary blues album.

Sunday, July 31, 7 p.m., Palats Ukraina, 103 Velyka Vasylkivska St., 2472303. Tickets: Hr 300-3,000.

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Live Music July 18 Animals Session, free admission July 19 Tres Deseos Latino Party, free admission July 20 The Magma, free admission BOCHKA PYVNA ON KHMELNYTSKOHO 4B-1 Khmelnytskoho St, metro Teatralna, 390-6106, www.bochka.com.ua Concerts traditionally start at 9-10 p.m.

July 15 Pora Festivalit Party: My100, Mars Atakuet, DJ 47, free admission July 16 Modern Rock Heroes Festival, Nochnyie Snaipery Cover Party, Hr 40 July 21 Stereoplen, Hr 25

Listen to ‘Stereoplen’ on July 21 in Bochka. (Courtesy) ART CLUB 44 44B Khreshchatyk St., 279-4137, www.club44.com.ua Concerts traditionally start at 8 – 10 p.m.

July 15 Legkiy Flirt, Hr 50 July 16 MJ Project, Hr 50 July 17 Soiuz 44 Jam Session, free admission July 18 Brazil A, free admission July 19 Checkpoint, free admission July 20 Doza, Hairy Riot, free admission July 21 TyGyDym Party, free admission DOCKER’S ABC 15 Khreshchatyk St., 278-1717, www.docker.com.ua Concerts traditionally start at 9:30-10 p.m.

July 15 Mad Heads XL, Hot Guys, Hr 70 July 16 Angie Nears, Foxtrot Music Band, Hr 70 July 17 Karnavalnaya Zhara, free admission July 18 Gera and Second Breath, free admission July 19 Partizanskie Vytivky, Hr 20 July 20 Rockin’ Wolves, Hr 30 DOCKER PUB 25 Bohatyrska St., metro Heroyiv Dnipra, www.docker.com.ua Concerts traditionally start at 9:30-10 p.m.

July 15 Strong Time, Partizanskie Vytivky, Hr 70 July 16 Mad Heads UkrainSKA, Chill Out, Hr 70 July 17 Vostochny Express, free admission

PORTER PUB 3 Sichnevogo Povstannya St., 280-1996, www.porter.com.ua Concerts traditionally start at 7:30 p.m.

July 15 Juke Box July 16 Tartilla July 17 Syndicat July 20 Ivan Bliuz July 21 Horoshy Plohoy Zloy JAZZ DO IT 76A Velyka Vasylkivska St., 289-56-06, http://jazz-doit.com.ua Concerts traditionally start at 8:30 p.m.

July 15 Living Blues July 16 Alexander Marchenko July 20 Nikolskaya Elena Other live music clubs: GOLDEN GATE IRISH PUB, 15 Zolotovoritska St., 235-5188, http:// goldengatepubkiev.com/ TO DUBLIN IRISH PUB, 4 Raisy Okipnoi St., 569-5531, http://www.to-dublin.com.ua/ PIVNA NO.1 ON BASEYNA, 15 Baseyna St., 287-44-34, www.pivna1.com.ua DRAFT 1/2 Khoryva St., metro Kontraktova Ploshcha, 463-7330 KHLIB CLUB 12 Frunze St., www.myspace. com/xlibclub CHESHIRE CAT 9 Sklyarenko St., 428-2717 O’BRIEN’S 17A Mykhaylivska St., 279-1584 DAKOTA 14G Heroyiv Stalinhrada St., 468-7410 U KRUZHKI 12/37 Dekabrystiv St., 562-6262.

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Nicolas Cage rises from the dead in ‘Drive Angry.’ (thewolfmancometh.files. wordpress.com) Editor’s note: Although Kyiv theaters rarely show films in the original language, there are other ways of getting hold of movies without irritating dubbing or subtitles. Buy a film at an online video shop (some of them deliver to the door) or pick up a movie in DVD stores across Kyiv. Here’s a list of latest releases.

DRIVE ANGRY USA 2011 Language: Russian and English with English subtitles Starring Nicolas Cage and Amber Heard Genre: a very stupid action movie Where to buy: Yakaboo, Hr 57 http://www.yakaboo.ua/ru/catalog/all/ drive-angry-212735 Nicolas Cage finally did it. The Oscar winner and nephew of famous director Francis Ford Coppola, Cage seems to have fallen so low that he’s now starring in B movies.

“Drive Angry” lives up to a definition of a B movie – a low budget commercial picture with a dull screenplay and actors performing very poorly. Naturally, Cage is the best among them. He is a professional – he learned from Coppola, among others, so at least he looks persuasive in the role of Milton, a vengeful father who escapes from hell to chase after a man who killed his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter. The Devil of

course is not pleased with all of this and sends his messenger to nail Milton. Get ready for lots of shooting and dirty talk.

The film is worth seeing in three cases: 1) If you are drunk but not ready to go to sleep. This film would take up an hour and a half you wouldn’t want to remember; 2) You always hated Nicolas Cage and want to make sure he is dead as an actor; 3) You always loved Nicolas Cage and now, when he is dead as an actor and not making much money (B movies don’t pay a lot), you want to support him financially by buying his films.

RED RIDING HOOD USA 2011 Directed by Catherine Hardwicke Starring Amanda Seyfried, Lukas Haas and Gary Oldman Genre: Horror / Fantasy Where to buy: Yakaboo, Hr 55 http://www.yakaboo.ua/ru/catalog/all/ red-riding-hood-212184

Catherine Hardwicke made her name as one of the best directors of American independent movies. Then she switched to mainstream Hollywood and made the extremely popular “Twilight”. Working on “Red Riding Hood,” she combined two styles producing a film, which could be one of the best in the fantasy genre this year.

It tells the story of a werewolf that struck a peace treaty with villagers. But one day he broke the promise and killed a young woman. People called on a famed werewolf hunter, who finds out that the werewolf can turn into any of the villagers during the day.

The film has nice cinematography, and Hardwicke definitely knows how to mystify her works. But this movie will not be as popular as “Twilight” because its werewolves aren’t as attractive as vampires who like teenager girls.

THE ROOMMATE USA 2011 Directed by Christian Christiansen Starring Minka Kelly, Leughton Meester Genre: Thriller Where to buy: Yakaboo, Hr 57 http://www.yakaboo.ua/ru/catalog/all/ the-roommate-212905 This story has already been told a thousand times. College student Sara (of course, she is a young attractive woman, which makes the film interesting for men no matter how stupid the screenplay is) has a new roommate Rebecca (again, a very attractive young woman).

Soon Sara finds out that Rebecca is somehow obsessed with her (the male audience is going crazy). And so the violence begins as Rebecca is jealous of Sara dating men.

A predictable thriller, this type of movies became popular in the 1990s. Buy it if you want to kill an evening and enjoy young attractive women on screen, because the story itself is not really worth the effort.

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No to women, yes to cookies and other superstitions in football

BY KO S T YA D OV G AN an d M A R K R AC H K EVYC H

A stray dog runs for a ball during a training prior to a friendly match between Ukraine and Italy in Kyiv on March 29. (AFP)

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From devout praying to sitting on the same seat on the team bus, grown soccer coaches and players have their share of superstitions.

A study of the most common superstitious beliefs known to soccer fans by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, shows that rituals and illogical practices haunt many Ukrainian professional players and coaches. The online poll surveyed 687 football fans in April aged 18 and older; its findings are rather endearing and charming.

In terms of superstitious role models, legendary Soviet and Ukrainian player and coach Valeriy Lobanovsky beats all others. A fervent practitioner of irrational rituals, he categorically forbade women from riding on the team bus or flying in the same airplane as the players, the study says.

On game day, the national team’s breakfast always included a small portion of black Beluga caviar. This practice, along with tea and cookies as the last snack before a match, is still practiced, say football observers.

Lobanovsky also had an aversion to the number 13, identical to what the study’s respondents reported.

Current national team coach Oleh Blokhin always sits on the front right

seat on the team bus. His assistant, Andriy Bal is always seated behind the bus driver in the front.

Dynamo Kyiv’s Coach Yuri Semin, a devout Christian, took his team to a chapel in Vyshhorod district north of Kyiv to pray on the eve of their match against rival Shakhtar Donetsk in May.

Needless to say, Dynamo lost that fixture.

Players often are seen crossing themselves before entering the pitch and step with the same foot first. They also often lace their shoes in a prescribed order.

“Although at their level of play soc-

cer players are confident of their capabilities and skills, they still try to augment this with rituals to gain an extra advantage or to do things ‘just in case,’” said Volodymyr Pohorilyi, a chief psychiatrist from the Kyiv-based Association of Psychotherapy.

Others have falsely rationalized

cause and effect outcomes out of completely random acts. Germany’s Mario Gomez once forgot to sing to the national anthem in the youth team, he scored a goal in that match and hasn’t sung along to the anthem ever again.

“This kind of formal logic stems from people observing something that randomly occurred believing that the same outcome will come about if repeated again,” said Pohorilyi of logical fallacies.

Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is known to avoid shooting toward the goal before a fixture because he doesn’t want to “waste goals.”

Some players wear a lucky charm, the study said. Most often players drop a lucky coin into their socks but FIFA’s recent crack down on jewelry has made this more difficult.

Recently, Dynamo Kyiv rebranded by reverting to the Soviet design of its famous cursive “D,” as Dynamo had more success in Soviet times. But veteran striker Andriy Shevchenko wasn’t concerned with the design change.

“What’s most important is that the letter ‘D’ is still there. It makes no principled difference whether it’s the old or new version,” Shevchenko said on July 3.

Dynamo beat Shakhtar 3-1 on July 5 with their “new old version” of the emblem.

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Miss Ukraine goes from law school to catwalk

Chernivtsi wedding dresses reverse old Silk Route

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Æ10 Built in the 18th century, this town of 300,000 people is known as an Austro-Hungarian architectural jewel and the wedding-dress capital of Ukraine. The city is filled with boutiques, but experienced buyers tend to head for Kalinovsky market, where the price of the dresses starts at $50, and the choice is wide. Sellers come from all over Bukovyna, including the famous village of Voloka, where almost all of the inhabitants are employed in the sewing of wedding garments.

However, this business is not always legal, and sellers want to avoid attention from the tax administration: Photography is banned at the market and few want to talk about their work.

Valentyna, a seamstress with her own shop in Chernivtsi, said there are several foreigners among her clients – mostly Russians and Kazakhs.

“They mainly buy dresses decorated

by Swarovski crystals. They also choose white or cream colors,” Valentyna said of Central Asian buyers’ preferences.

She refused to give her surname.

The next challenge for the longhaul wedding salespeople is getting the dresses out of Ukraine, legally or otherwise.

Ukrainian law allows goods worth up to $200 to be carried over the border without a customs declaration. Timur Omariv, a customs officer at Boryspil airport, said businessmen from Central Asia sometimes don’t seem to know about this rule or simply try to evade it. Violations are not considered smuggling, and are punished by fines and confiscation of goods.

Omarov said the dresses normally leave Ukrainian territory legally. Before entering the country, a person declares $4,000-$5,000, spends it on dresses and accessories in Ukraine and then takes them away on his way back.

Omarov said he thought it was something in the Central Asian love of glamour that fed the desire for dresses.

“They are Oriental people, and love showy weddings,” he said.

Kyiv Post staff writer Oksana Grytsenko can be reached at grytsenko@kyivpost. com

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Ivano-Frankivsk-native Olesya Stefanko at first appears a typical choice as Miss Ukraine-Universe 2011.

Tall? Check. Elegant? Check.

Beautiful? Check.

But there’s more to this 22-yearold legal student than meets the eye.

As a teenager, her dream was not, as beauty contestants often claim, to save children or heal the world, but to put criminals in their place as a prosecutor.

“I dreamed of being a prosecutor,” said Stefanko, who is in her fourth of six years studying at the Odesa Legal Academy, in an interview. “But then I spent some time at the prosecutor’s office as an intern and realized that this isn’t work for women. Legal practice is better.”

After winning the national beauty crown in December last year, Stefanko will head off to Brazil for the Miss Universe contest on Sept. 12.

The fragile brunette has all the typical sound bites needed to excel in the competition. She said beauty is not just about a perfectly-shaped nose or good genes, but also neatness, kindness and looking after oneself.

Olesya Stefanko

Beauty queen and law graduate Olesya Stefanko poses in front of the mirror.

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Surprisingly, Stefanko said she never considered herself extraordinary and because of her natural shyness hadn’t intended to take part in any competitions, never mind make a living on the stage.

Her timid character may lie behind her decision not to pursue a career as a prosecutor. The brown-eyed beauty said the stress and irregular working hours are a bad influence on a happy family and home life. These views are typical in a country with few women in top government positions or company boardrooms.

Stefanko hasn’t yet found that lifestyle – she’s single and has no plans for a serious relationship in the near future.

For all you hopefuls out there, looks and wealth aren’t at the top of her must-have list.

“I often date men who are shorter than me. So what? I don’t have any complexes,” she said.

Stefanko comes from a regular fam-

ily – her mom is a housewife, and her father is an ordinary worker. “They are simple people, but they love and respect each other. I want the same kind of pure and real relations,” she said.

The lawyer-beauty ended up in contests by chance. When her university friends asked her to represent the law faculty, she refused at first, afraid that her shyness would hold her back.

But in the end she agreed, won and began taking part in inter-university contests.

Next stop: Brazil, for the Miss Universe pageant. Victory, she said, would help her in her further career as a lawyer. How? “I don’t know,” she replied, before adding: “My life has changed rapidly, and I don’t know how it can change further. I always had plans for the future – top marks at high school, a bachelor’s with honors, legal practice.

But now everything has changed,” she smiled.

Stefanko has a certain naivety about her, the innocence of a young girl thrown into an unusual, very public world. But that timidity disappears when she’s in front of the camera.

While being interviewed she posed for an elegant photoshoot, exuding class and experience. In life, she is much gentler and smiles constantly.

Her success in beauty contests hasn’t changed her as a person, she said. She still meets with friends, studies, reads detective novels and works

by Paulo Coelho.

And Stefanko isn’t looking for love.

Not just yet.

“I believe in fate, that it [love] will find me when I need it. Love means dependence. You need all your time for it. I’m working on my career at the moment,” she said.

Kyiv Post staff writer Yuliya Raskevich can be reached at raskevich@kyivpost. com

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Kyiv Cricket Club gladly welcomes teams participating in the Kyiv Cricket League: KCC, BUCC, Seniors, Friends, Kagarlyk, Combined XI & EverGreen XI

Next weekend matches:

July 16 Saturday

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The League’s competition begins on May 28 through August 14, 2011 with games at the Voskhod Stadium at 6 Pryvokzalna Street, Kyiv.

You are invited with family, friends & colleagues!

Cold beer & snacks available to beat the heat & enjoy watching the game.

July 17 Sunday

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July 18 Monday

BUCC vs Combined Seniors vs EverGreen KCC vs Friends EverGreen vs Combined Seniors vs BUCC

12:30 PM 4:00 PM 9:30 AM 1:00 PM 4:00 PM

Seniors vs Friends

12:00 PM

Results of Kyiv Cricket League held on July 9-10, 2011:

July 9 Saturday 1st Semi-final July 9 Saturday 2nd Semi-final July 10 Sunday Final

ISTIL XI Donetsk vs ANANTA XI Kharkiv

ANANTA XI won by 2 wickets

Ranbaxy XI vs Seniors XI

Seniors XI won by 4 wickets

Seniors XI vs ANANTA XI

ANANTA XI won by 3 wickets

Man of the Match: Suraj

Man of the Match: Safeer

Man of the Match: Tera Singh

ISTIL XI: 158 runs/20 overs ANANTA XI:159 runs/8 wickets Ranbaxy XI: 95 runs/all out Seniors XI: 96 runs/6 wickets Seniors XI: 127 runs/9 wickets ANANTA XI: 128 runs/7 wickets

Thanks to everyone involved in the Kyiv Cricket League!

Please let us know if you would like to play. To register please contact Mr. Wayne, KCC, at +380 50 358-88-49 or Mr. Shailesh, KCC, at +380 50 355-61-16 For more information please visit kyivpost.com/projects/cricket

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