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A pro-Ukrainian rock festival came under attack from a gang of unidentified thugs on Sept. 26. Concert organizers blamed the mysterious incident on unspecified government authorities who are politically opposed to the event’s patriotic message. Two dozen men descended on the Gaidamaki.UA festival in Irpin, a town 25 kilometers north- 12
Mask Masked and armed Ukr Ukrainian tax police on Se Sept. 24 fired guns using rub rubber bullets at worko an agricultural enterers of prise in Berdyansk, a port city in Zaporizhia Oblast, injuring four. A similar incident took place five days later in Kherson, leaving a mayoral candidate hospitalized. The violence in Berdyansk 13
At least three clashes in which violence broke out, including two involving police agencies in Berdyansk and Kherson, highlight barbarism in Ukrainian society and the continuing weakness of law enforcement under President Viktor Yanukovych’s administration. In Irpin, police failed to stop a marauding gang that attacked a music festival featuring patriotic bands and politicians at odds with the administration. Meanwhile, tax police carried out violent raids on two businesses, on Sept. 24 in Berdyansk (above) and on Sept. 29 in Kherson. Police injured five people in the two incidents, including three seriously enough to be hospitalized. (Alexey Kalinin/Courtesy of Berdyanskie Novosti newspaper)
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Pinchuk flies guests to Yalta for seventh annual conference The seventh annual, three-day Yalta European Strategy conference is happening this weekend. The international movement was established by billionaire Viktor Pinchuk to support Ukraine’s membership into the European Union. The conference brings together Ukrainian and European policymakers, business leaders, thinkers, researchers and journalists. This year’s event is titled, “Ukraine and the World: Rethinking and Moving On.” Javier Solana, the European Union’s former foreign policy czar, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, the international organization that is bankrolling Ukraine’s government with billions of dollars in loans, will attend the event.
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A panel of experts and officials are seen discussing Ukraine at a YES conference held in 2008. (Sergei Illin)
Taking place at the famous Livadia Palace, many of the sessions will be moderated by Reuters Global Editor Christia Freeland and includes sessions devoted to such issues as the
new global order and its new players, Europe’s future and Ukraine’s place in it, and Ukraine in a changing world. More information can be found at http://yes-ukraine.org/
Bill Clinton comes to help friends Former U.S. President William J. Clinton will speak about global challenges facing Ukraine on Oct. 1 at the seventh annual Yalta Conference sponsored by Ukrainian billionaire Viktor Pinchuk. Then in Kyiv on Oct. 3, Clinton will talk about the huge HIV/AIDS problems facing Ukraine and the world on Kyiv's Mykhailivska Square. The event and associated concert are being organized by the AntiAIDS Foundation, headed by Pinchuk's wife, Olena. The concert, which starts at 4 p.m., will be broadcast live on Novy Kanal. Clinton’s foundation is currently working with Olena Pinchuk’s foundation to keep youth off of drugs. Clinton's visit will culminate on Oct. 4 in a public lecture to students at the Kyiv Diplomatic Academy where he will talk about global challenges. Clinton’s business ties have faced Compiled by Mark Rachkevych
From left: former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin in Yalta on June 29, 2007, during the Yalta European Summit. (UNIAN)
Oct. 1, 3, 4 scrutiny in the West. His foundation has received millions of dollars from Pinchuk. After giving a speech at the 2007 Yalta conference, he was embraced by former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Pinchuk’s father-in-law. Kuchma has been implicated in the Sept. 16, 2000, murder of hard-hitting journalist Georgiy Gongadze. Kuchma has always denied involvement, but former police general Oleksiy Pukach – now in jail awaiting trial – allegedly implicated him anew. Cynically, Kuchma hinted last month that U.S. intelligence services could have been behind the murder as an effort to
undermine Ukraine. Ironically, Clinton was president of the United States at the time. When Gongadze’s widow, Myroslava, saw a newspaper photo of Clinton and Kuchma at the conference, she told Newsweek magazine her response was: “I wanted to throw up.” Clinton, she said, was being used by Pinchuk “to clean up and legitimize Kuchma’s legacy.” Pinchuk's generosity has paid dividends. He was a guest at the inauguration of Clinton’s presidential library in Little Rock, Arkansas, and he attended Clinton’s exclusive 60th birthday bash in New York.
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Tymoshenko going to France FormerPrime MinisterYuliaTymoshenko will address the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, to raise the issue of irregularities in the local election law ahead of the Oct. 31 vote. Tymoshenko’s speech will come on the second day of the five-day session during a discussion on the “functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine.” “We will report on the situation at the PACE session on Oct. 5, and we will demand that the international community, if it doesn’t hold double standards, if the elections take place under the current election law, and if the Regions Party has no main competitor, not recognize these elections as fair, democratic and transparent,” the Batkivshchyna Party leader said on Sept. 28. Tymoshenko has repeatedly said that the authorities are interfering in the internal affairs of the party, putting obstacles in the way of Batkivschyna Party’s participation in the local elections.
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Thugocracy Tax collection should be straightforward and boring, but not in Ukraine. Instead of being a matter for mild-mannered accountants and government auditors, Ukraine has returned to the state-sanctioned gangsterism of the 1990s and early 2000s. This seems to be be the only explanation for two raids five days apart, in Berdyansk and Kherson, chronicled in front page stories today. In both incidents, government tax police donned masks, flak jackets and used guns in storming two businesses as part of court-sanctioned tax inspections. In Berdyansk, a YouTube clip showed scared, unprofessional and tentative young police officers in masks trying to stop a group of workers from entering an agricultural complex on Sept. 24. As frightened as they looked, the officers were still dangerous. They fired wildly into a crowd of workers, injuring four, including two seriously enough to be hospitalized. Then, five days later in Kherson, tax police raided a business and beat up a mayoral candidate seriously enough to hospitalize him. In neither case did there appear to be any justification for such use of force. Despite official explanations to the contrary, it did not appear that workers in either place were armed or dangerous. In civilized and democratic societies, there is no excuse for this kind of law enforcement – poorly trained officers wearing masks and using excessive force. These are signs of a society in which police are politicized. More likely, this force was employed to settle some business dispute or even to take control of the enterprise. At an investor conference on Sept. 28, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov lambasted critics for failing to give his government credit for stabilizing the nation and launching reforms. He scolded journalists for negative reporting that is deterring investors. Poppycock. There are no “reforms” under way – only a grab to monopolize political power by the Party of Regions. It is not a negative perception that scares away investors. A poor investment climate is the deterring reality. No one’s property or money is safe in this nation. The government and the powerful business cliques who back it use corruption and bureaucracy to stifle fair economic competition. Tax authorities’ sweeping powers and their willingness to use them may lead to large-scale crackdowns on anyone who disagrees with the ruling powers – much as the State Tax Administration was abused by tax chief Azarov under ex-President Leonid Kuchma. We wish that life was better for investors, for reasons of national and selfinterest. A better investment climate could lift millions of Ukrainians out of poverty. It would also help ensure the future success of the Kyiv Post and every other investor or business in Ukraine who is here to stay. Ignoring reality because of everyone’s wish for a better investment climate is not going to help anyone or make it happen.
Good news! Ukraine got a rare piece of hopeful public health news on Sept. 27 from a global survey that found the adult smoking rate had dropped since 2005, when 37 percent of adults were regular smokers. The rate is now nearly 29 percent – an improvement, but still much too high. How to interpret the results of the study, known as the Global Adult Tobacco Survey, conducted by governments? Part of the credit goes to the effective work of anti-smoking groups in Ukraine, including those supported by ex-smoker and billionaire philanthropist Michael R. Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and nonprofit organizations such as the Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids in Washington, D.C. Part of the credit goes to smokers themselves, most of whom want to quit the habit, as the survey found. And credit goes to all other Ukrainians – ex-smokers and non-smokers alike – who no longer want their nation to keep losing 100,000 people prematurely each year to tobacco-related illnesses. Aside from the loss of life, Ukraine’s economy also suffers an estimated $3 billion annually from the effects of smoking. What needs to be done is simple to define, yet hard to do: Break the back of the tobacco lobby in parliament. Raise taxes on Ukraine’s cheap cigarettes, so that they are no longer among the cheapest in the world. Institute a national ban on smoking in public places and workplaces. All forms of tobacco promotions and advertisements should also be forbidden, so that Ukraine’s youth can be protected from the predatory tobacco industry. Tobacco sales should be regulated and licensed and no longer allowed from street kiosks. The Kyiv Post has plenty of smokers among its ranks – some trying hard to quit, others not so hard. But we agree that society’s best interests dictate that such vices are expensive, so that fewer people in future generations suffer from this addictive and deadly product.
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C’mon, kids. Let’s get rid of all your silly computer games and bring back ‘Zarnitsa’ (Capture The Flag).
Yeah. I’m running a little late. An old fogie is giving us a retro-lesson about playtime.
NEWS ITEM: On Sept. 15, the Ukrainian government led by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov decided to bring back a popular Soviet pioneer game known as “zarnitsa” or “Capture The Flag,” in which two teams try to capture the others’ flag. According to the resolution, the game was awarded national status as “military-patriotic” game and is to be played in schools and military colleges. Education Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk said the game will help children and young people “learn how to overcome difficulties.” Many teachers expressed surprise at the elevation of the Soviet game. Some also wondered why the government is getting involved in such decisions that are best left to individual schools. (Drawing by Anatoliy Petrovich Vasilenko).
Once and for all, tear down this academic wall! SERH IY K UD EL IA
The walls separating Ukraine from the West have been gradually crumbling over the past 20 years. Although external visa restrictions remain, the state no longer prevents Ukrainians from traveling abroad and allows Westerners to visit Ukraine freely. This makes Ukraine’s Soviet-age policy of non-recognition of Western scholarly degrees look like an embarrassing anachronism – the last major wall between Ukraine and the West, which prevents Ukrainian universities from turning into modern and competitive research institutions. When I chose to do my graduate studies in the United States 12 years ago, I was fully aware of Ukraine’s discriminatory policies against Western degree holders. Still, the process of change in the educational sphere seemed, then, destined to put an end to this discrimination. Thousands of Ukrainians going every year to study in Europe and North America need to break down the wall preventing them from getting employed in the academic institutions in Ukraine. The legacies of Soviet education policies, however, proved strong and lasting. As a result, 20 years after independence there is still no university in Ukraine which offers Western Ph.D.-holders the same treatment that Ukrainian degree
holders get. My own experience at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, unfortunately, proves that even those higher education institutions which are often viewed as progressive refuse to introduce special internal rules to end this discrimination. Why is this so difficult? First, there is another powerful Soviet-era relic - Higher Attestation Commission – which wants to preserve its monopoly not only on issuing all scholarly degrees in Ukraine, but also on recognizing the equivalency of foreignissued degrees. As a result, anyone with a degree from a Western institution has to go through an extremely bureaucratic and (according to numerous sources) corrupt process of recognition, which is called nostrification. Basically, it amounts to a second dissertation defense, only on the local procedurally complicated terms, and may take several years. Some of those who went through nostrification told me they would not want to wish this even on an enemy. Also, most Ukrainians universities are lackluster and they are the ones who could potentially benefit most from a change in rules. Several major universities, including KyivMohyla, demanded greater university autonomy during Viktor Yushchenko’s presidency. They even prepared legislative proposals allowing them to recognize Western degrees themselves, as it is done in most European countries. Their initiative, however, received little backing from the rest of the academic community, found little support in the government and ultimately failed. Finally, the issue lacks the populist appeal needed for any major political force to advocate it publicly and consistently. In fact, it may even seem politically risky given the 15
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Modern inventions that kill romance A couple kisses in Lviv on Valentine's Day. (UNIAN)
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Recently, I was thinking about our contemporary world and the popular notion that romance is dead. I never analyzed why it is dead. But then I started noticing little things. I observed my friends and their behavior and learned the true reasons why online pornography, as a substitute for love, is becoming more popular. So let’s check my list of developments that have increased isolation and decreased fleshand-blood romance:
Imagine the beginning of a romantic comedy. A young woman enters a cafe, orders her latte and a handsome waiter suddenly asks her: “I’m sorry, can I ask your name, please?” She blushes at the flattering attention. “Alina,” she says. Well, maybe in a previous life, it could have been the beginning of a beautiful friendship. But now there is no romantic comedy. Now, all she gets is Starbucks in a paper cup to go.
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Facebook Before Facebook, there was a place for sleepless nights and nostalgia. There were memories of a person with whom you once were in love and whom you will never see again. Now, you’re just going on the page of the guy you hooked up with in the club or museum or the Empire State Building or the pub crawl and all your hopes are gone. No, he is not thinking of you. No, he is not as heartbroken as you had hoped. No, he does not think of the night you spent together. Instead, he is flirting with other girls on his facebook wall and posts pictures of getting a lap dance at his own bachelor party. Epic failure.
Dating websites There is something romantic about meeting a girl or a boy at a bar or a friend’s place and discovering their personality, likes and dislikes, favorite food and drinks step by step. There is something nice in the feeling of uncertainty about his or her intentions towards you. “Does she see me as a friend?” or “Does he want to date me?” Dating websites make it all trivial and open. You register, you check the girl whose picture you like the most, you check her profile, you chat with her, you invite her to a real date – and here it is, the “relationship” is over! Before, people spent months
VOX populili WITH NATALIYA SOLOVONYUK
Is President Viktor Yanukovych a democrat or dictator? Nadezhda Konstantynova Retired “Yanukovych is a democrat. He preaches the right ideas. He lives for the people. He is struggling with bureaucracy, fighting with corruption. And Rome was not built in a day, so it cannot be all right after such a terrible crisis, but you will see that he will deal with this.” Mychaylo Bard Musician “Yanukovych is rather a dictator. This is confirmed by his actions. When Yanukovych came to power, he began to fire people from posts without a logical explanation: in the Interior Ministry and Security Service. People worked well, but they were fired simply because they belonged to another party. Yanukovych acts like a dictator.”
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Here is another scenario. They met in a museum or club or at the Empire State Building in New York or during a pub crawl. She is from Spain, he is from Germany. They spend a romantic and incredibly passionate night together, like in the 1995 movie “Before Sunrise.” If you haven’t seen the movie and you are a hopeless romantic, run immediately to the next DVD rental store or, if you dare to break the law, download from piratebay.com. It’s about religion, politics, relationships, drinking wine and doing all kinds of other things that I am not supposed to describe in a modest newspaper … So, where was I? Oh, right. The next day, she returns back to sunny Malaga and he back to hip Berlin. She spends nights crying into her pillow and imagining how he would appear on her doorstep. So, imagine the year 1994. He knocks on her door in the middle of the night. He spent 500 Deutsch Marks on the Lufthansa ticket to Barcelona and then another 100 pesetas on the bus from Barcelona to Malaga. In order to get all this money, he (as a poor student in my story) either robbed a bank or worked three jobs for the past two months. One wouldn’t do it for another one night stand, would he? Verdict: He is in love. But in the year 2010, he knocks on her door in the middle of the night because he got a really good deal on ryanair.com – a Berlin-Malaga round-trip ticket for 20 euros. Verdict: What do you think it is? I’m not sure either, since that’s what my best friend just did to a poor little Spanish girl, who thought he came to her doorstep because he was in love. It turns out he just needed a couch to sleep on.
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It’s hard to be a romantic nowadays. Fortunately, I am not and have never been and years looking for a perfect one. And now it’s all on the table – her music tastes, her goal (friendship, pen pals, long-term relationship, marriage or casual encounters), even her sexual preferences. One of my friends was looking for a perfect one for the past two years. He is registered on one of those websites. Well, when earlier the phrase “I would like to know you better” meant “what is your favorite time of the year?” now it means: “So, should we finish this meal or get straight to sex?”
Google I Google almost everyone I meet. Sometimes I get a very unpleasant surprise. Once I tried to Google myself – I would never date me if I were someone else. Definitely a romance killer.
Liberal values/democracy Now people are allowed to do almost everything, so how can one find the forbidden apple which is the sweetest to bite? Black and white, rich and poor? Basically, it’s not even fun anymore. If you want romance, move to Iran. That’s where people literally die for the forbidden love, which is romantic, as I was informed.
Feminism/gender equality Nothing kills romance as much as a smart, good-looking and independent woman. She knows it all. So you can’t impress her with your high school geographical knowledge (“Did you know that only 10 percent of Iceland’s territory is covered by ice? And she is like: “Last time I was in Reykjavik for that congress it was 11 percent, but I guess my hotness melted the 1 percent you didn’t mention.” (And she is also funny! What a disaster!) or she is paying for your dinner with
her Visa Platinum card as you hold a 100 euro bill. “Keep the change for the homeless,” she says. “It’s on me. And for the record – this place is so cheesy (your favorite Italian!). Next time I’m booking at the new Ramsay’s restaurant.”
Sexual revolution Everybody knows that men generally don’t want to get married. They freak out just hearing the word “marriage” and only get into these suicidal arrangements under very tough circumstances (such as threat to life from her father, or personal money problems, or when her father is rich, or a combination). Everybody also knows that marriage and, especially, the wedding is the most precious dream of many women. A wedding is the “most romantic” thing ever. Flowers, white dress, thousands of dollars spent for an occasion – all of which will probably be repeated in the future because – see preceding paragraph – of men and marriage. There used to be another trick to get men into a marriage: sex. Now, however, you can sleep with whoever you fancy and your virginity only matters during the few moments while you’re losing it (ouch!). Before that, if a man wanted to sleep with a girl – unless she was some underclass servant or a courtesan (read: smart prostitute) – he had to marry her. Watch the 2009 movie “Bright Star” about British poet John Keats. He not only died young, but he also died without having sex with his darling Fanny Brawne, even though that’s the only thing viewers were expecting for the whole two hours of the movie. But since the whole thing happened a bit earlier than the 1960s and they weren’t married… Now, women pretend that they like sex as much as men do. After months and years of open relationships and one-night stands, they don’t get their deserved marriage proposals, thus most of them never have the most romantic day of their lives. Well, that’s basically it. Of course I could have broadened my list by adding such things as mobile phones (imagine if Romeo and Julia had those), emails, Skype and all other things. All are supposed to make our lives easier but, in fact, they are just ruining romance, which can now only be seen on TV or read in some cheesy female novel. As for me, I was never a romantic – probably because I am a true child of my generation. Alina Rudya is a former Kyiv Post staff writing studying in Berlin, Germany.
Anna Kostya Doctor “I obviously do not like the changes happening in the country. It’s a pity that even apolitical people as I can see that Yanukovych has no relation to democracy. It disappoints those who believe in him.” Maksym Teryoshyn Lawyer “Yanukovych is more inclined to be a dictator, but so far he is showing signs of being a democrat. In Ukraine’s reality, we don’t have real elections. So this is not a democracy.” Mykola Nychko Retired “Yanukovych is not fully a dictator, but he is on the way to this. Whose people sit there? Donetsk’s. Is this democracy?”
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First Domino’s Pizza store sighting in Kyiv
Swiss embassy targeted by anti-RosUkrEnergo protests
The first sighting of a Domino’s Pizza delivery store has been made in Kyiv, in the capital’s Podil district near the Puzata Khata cafeteria (above) not far from Kyiv-Mohyla University. A Domino’s Pizza sign has been erected at the site, which appears weeks away from opening. It comes just weeks after news broke that the U.S.-based pizza delivery giant has inked a franchise agreement to spread its business into Ukraine. Though no formal details were provided on who acquired the franchising rights to build the Domino’s chain in Ukraine, informed sources said the likely partner bringing Domino’s to Ukraine is Kiev-Donbass, a diversified Kyiv-based business holding co-owned by brothers Vyacheslav and Oleksander Konstantinovsky and partners. Along with partners, the brothers also own the Puzata Khata restaurant chain. So far, the globally dominant McDonald’s is the only fast food chain that has established a strong presence in Ukraine. But its competitors are on the way. Konstantin Petrov, a domestic businessman, recently announced plans to bring the Dunkin Donuts chain to Ukraine and Russia. Reports suggest that Wendy’s is eyeing Russia, and could make a side step into Ukraine. (Oleksiy Boyko)
Dozens of Ukrainian activists allied with ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko staged a protest outside the Swiss Embassy in Kyiv on Sept. 27 (above). Mirroring a similar protest that occurred on Sept. 24 outside the Kyiv offices of the International Monetary Fund, the group handed some 100,000 petitions signed by citizens. Tymoshenko and her supporters have called upon the international community and IMF to investigate Swiss-registered RosUkrEnergo, the controversial gas trader which has in prior years made hundreds of millions in profits in its middleman role supplying gas from Russia to Ukraine, and further to Europe. Tymoshenko removed the company in 2009 while serving as premier, and claims President Viktor Yanukovych is going against national interests to bring the company back into business. In her words, Yanukovych’s inner circle founded and de facto co-owns RosUkrEnergo. Yanukovych’s team denies wrongdoing. (Oleksiy Boyko)
On the move DAVID KRAMER, a leading expert on Ukraine and former top U.S. official, has been chosen to serve as the new executive director of Freedom House, an independent pro-democracy watchdog organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. Prior to this post, Kramer served as Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. He served for three years as Deputy U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, focusing on Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Russia, in addition to regional non-proliferation issues. Kramer has also spent five years as associate director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) in Washington, D.C. Most recently, Kramer worked as a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States.
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ANDREAS UMLAND was
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appointed Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Social Technologies of the National University of Kyiv – Mohyla Academy. His long-term lectureship is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service. In his new post, Umland will teach within the Master in German and European Studies program at the Department of Political Science, a twoyear German-language course launched by Kyiv – Mohyla Academy, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, and German exchange service DAAD. Prior to this position, Umland has worked as a NATO and Thyssen Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and Harvard’s Weatherhead Center as well as a Bosch Lecturer at The Urals State University of Yekaterinburg, St. Antony’s College Oxford, and Shevchenko University of Kyiv. Umland taught contemporary East European history at The Catholic University of EichstaettIngolstadt, Bavaria.
was appointed chief financial officer to the Board of Directors at Ukrproduct, one of the leading producers and distributors of branded dairy products in Ukraine. Yakovenko rejoined Ukrproduct as Head of Controlling and Risks Analysis department in August 2009. Before that she held a post as executive director and deputy general director in charge of Finance of ViDi Group Limited, a diversified Ukrainian holding company. Yakovenko, 48, has obtained extensive experience in management positions working at ViDi Group Limited, earlier as finance director at UTL-COM Limited. Prior to this, she was deputy Financial Director of Ukrtechnoprom, one of the leading suppliers of heating equipment in Ukraine. Olena is a graduate of Donetsk National University with a degree in Economics.
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was appointed Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Foyil Asset Management Ukraine. In his new post, Mikhailov will be responsible for all aspects of Foyil Asset Management’s business development in Ukraine. Prior to joining Foyil Asset Management, Mikhailov worked as Commercial Director in Ukraine for L’Oreal. A native Ukraine, Alexei received both his undergraduate and MBA degrees in the U.S. while studying at San Diego State University.
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WITH LEONID ANTONENKO AND NIKOLAI SOROCHINSKIY
Judicial overhaul: Good news for investors or not? It is easy to be suspicious of the motives behind the new Judiciary Act which became law on July 30. The speed with which the new governing coalition established control over the country’s judicial system is disturbing to many. This speed suggests that the prime motive behind the changes was politics rather than considered reform strategy. Perhaps understandably, Ukrainians are not used to giving their politicians the benefit of the doubt. However, when one examines the changes introduced by the new Judiciary Act on their merits, one finds that many of them could be quite positive for ordinary Ukrainians. Greater certainty in the judicial system introduced by the new law could, in the long run, even be good for the country’s investment environment. Take, for example, one of the most discussed reforms introduced by the Judiciary Act: the reduction in the powers of the Supreme Court. The court will no longer be able to hear appeals without the go-ahead from the so-called “high specialized courts,” namely the High Commercial, High Administrative, High Civil and Criminal Cases Court. In other words, to appeal to the Supreme Court, one would have to receive permission from the court whose judgment one wants to challenge. Moreover, the Supreme Court will no longer be able to decide with finality even those few cases that reach it after passing this filter. The Supreme Court will only have authority to send the case for review to the high specialized court. Previously, the Supreme Court was able to send cases for new trial to the court of first instance, forcing the litigants to go through the entire judicial system two and even more times. This meant that in some cases it took years to reach the final decision. The disputes surrounding the bankruptcy of thermoelectric generator Dniproenergo provide many examples of cases travelling through the judicial merry-go-round for years. Such protracted procedures will be far less common under the new law.
As a practical matter, removal of the Supreme Court from involvement in most specific cases may prove to be beneficial for the litigants who may now be able to obtain a definitive and final court judgment sooner. On balance, the limited powers of the Supreme Court will result in shorter time needed for the case to reach a final court decision. This promises a much greater certainty in corporate and other business disputes. This certainty could be extended because the Judiciary Act for the first time in the Ukrainian legal history introduces the concept of judicial precedent. The act provides that those few decisions that the Supreme Court still has authority to issue will be a source of generally applicable law. The notion that decisions of high courts in specific cases should reflect generally applicable principles is a cornerstone of any functioning legal system, but before the Judiciary Act, this common sense notion was not recognized in Ukraine. Many of the other changes introduced by the new law are aimed at simplifying and streamlining court procedures. For example, the law calls for the introduction of an automatic system of document circulation and distribution of cases between judges in all courts. The idea behind this project is that the automatic system is supposed to make it harder to manipulate and misplace documents in court files. If introduced properly, it is also supposed to eliminate or limit the discretion of chief judges in distribution of cases. Many previous governments announced their intention to introduce such a system in courts, but little changed in practice. Let’s hope that the new government’s good record for getting things done will translate in actually making this automatic system a reality. Many changes the Judiciary Act introduces in the procedural codes are likely to result in shortened trial and appeal procedures. For example, under the new rules the maximum time allowed for the consideration of the case in the high specialized courts or
in the Supreme Court is cut from two months to just one month. These and other changes may result in substantially shorter times for the final resolution of many cases. Finally, the Judiciary Act could make the procedure for the appointment of judges a little more selective and transparent. Some of the positive changes in this respect include an anonymous test which candidates for the first judicial appointment would have to take, and a publication of judicial vacancies on the Internet. To be sure, it would be naïve to expect that the new system will rid the process of nepotism and corruption. However, it is hard to imagine a system which is worse than what we have today. A reform effort is welcome. The greater certainty, speed of procedures and other reforms that the new Judiciary Law brings comes at a price of limiting the institutional independence of the country’s judiciary. The Judiciary Act makes it much easier to dismiss judges, centralizing decision-making in such questions in the institutions (the High Council of Justice and the High Administrative Court) perceived as friendly to the current government. These changes expose judges to a much greater risk of political retaliation. However, as Ukraine’s experience amply demonstrates, independence must come with the ability to act responsibly. Unfortunately, Ukrainian judges have not formed anything resembling a culture of responsibility and self-regulation which their privileges call for. More often than not they do not use the status they enjoy to uphold the rule of law, instead using the protection that the judicial office offers for personal gain. The Ukrainian public lost all illusions about the true meaning of judicial independence long before the new government’s reforms. Leonid Antonenko is a senior associate and Nikolai Sorochinskiy is an associate with Asters, a leading Ukrainian law firm. They can be reached at leonid. antonenko@asterslaw.com and Nikolai. Sorochinskiy@asterslaw.com
In case you missed them, read the last five Business Sense columns by experts online at kyivpost.com September 17 with Natalia Pakhomovska, senior associate at the Kyiv office of DLA Piper: “Revised permit law could help business, but needs more work”
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September 10 with Volodymyr Vorobey, partner at CSR Ukraine Community: “Companies catching on to corporate responsibility” August 20 with Kirill Ratnikov and Ivan Trofimenko. Kirill Ratnikov is a partner with Magisters. Ivan Trofimenko is a Kyivbased associate with Magisters: “Progress made in effort to start publicprivate partnerships”
September 3 with Andriy Yarmak, independent agribusiness expert: “Government is eating hand that feeds it”
August 13 with Anastasia Golovach, top macroeconomist at the Kyiv offices of Renaissance Capital: “Hryvnia should strengthen against dollar by year’s end”
Shell’s Patrick Van Daele: Ukraine needs help to boost domestic natural gas production B Y JO H N M A R O N E MARONE@KYIVPOST.COM
Energy independence is consistently flagged as key to the country’s development. But with natural gas production declining, Ukraine remains addicted to increasingly expensive Russian imports. In a Sept. 23 interview with the Kyiv Post, Patrick Van Daele, general manager in Ukraine for global energy major Royal Dutch Shell, said major foreign investment is needed simply to maintain current output. He called on the government to eliminate the barriers to bringing in badly needed Western money and technology. Shell is the only multinational energy company with a presence in Ukraine, including a controlling share in a growing chain of gas stations and, since 2006, an exploration agreement with Ukrgazvydobuvannya, a subsidiary of state-owned Naftogaz. Van Daele, a Belgian national with 27 years of experience at Shell, attributed the recent drop in gas production to the dominance of energy giant Naftogaz on the market. Ninety percent of Ukrainian gas is produced by cash-strapped Naftogaz, with the rest coming from tiny and often embattled independents. Van Daele said independents’ production levels were flat or inching up, while that by Naftogaz is declining. “They know [the reason] themselves and they’ve said it many, many times: We have no money to reinvest in our oil and gas fields,” he said. The price of gas imported by Russia has risen from $50 per 1,000 cubic meters in 2005 to the $230 agreed earlier this year, a 30 percent discount on a higher price in return for an extension on the Russian navy’s stay in Crimea until at least 2042. But Ukrainian households and industry continue to be heavily subsidized at the expense of Naftogaz, which houses the state’s exploration and production together with importing and sales under one roof. As a result, Naftogaz cannot raise the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to maintain current production levels. The solution to this problem, according to Van Daele, is to bring in more multinationals under production sharing agreements or joint ventures with Naftogaz to give Ukraine the financing and technology it so badly needs to get at Ukraine’s hardto-reach gas reserves, much of which is deeply embedded in rock or the Black Sea. But despite a widely acclaimed law overwhelmingly passed by Ukrainian lawmakers in July that envisions the liberalization of Ukraine’s gas sector in line with European legislation, the country is still a long way from facilitating foreign investment. The law foresees the unbundling of Naftogaz into its separate entities of gas transportation (which is profitable), sales (which is not) and production (which could be). Van Daele, like many others, is cautiously optimistic, but raises certain concerns. “The gas law is a big umbrella law. Underneath there are many secondary bits of legislation, the small rules that determine what really goes on. A lot of this still has to be changed, and one of the concerns that we’ve expressed is: Ok, the agreement on
Shell's Patrick Van Daele
this umbrella is fine, great, necessary and timely. So now all this secondary legislation needs to be brought in line with the big umbrella,” he said. And although Shell is aware of a government plan to fill the umbrella law with more detailed legislation, the umbrella law itself contains serious flaws – namely, in its defining of the role of a sector regulator. “The regulator should see how the market is developing, respond to that, making sure that everyone gets their gas on a monthly basis, balancing all the needs of the various customers. … He should not have an open telephone line to the cabinet of ministers that influences what goes on at the regulator.” Meanwhile, Shell is itself feeling penned in by Ukrainian legislation. Obstacles to Shell’s expansion into greater production include yearly changes to the country’s budget law, which affects licensing. “There is the oil and gas law, there is the subsoil code – those are the pieces of legislation that determine by 90 percent what you can and cannot do and how you should do it. But there is 10 percent of legislation that is stipulated in the budget law, and this changes from year to year.” Another obstacle for Shell and other foreign companies interested in seeking a production sharing agreement with the Ukrainian government is a new amendment, passed on Sept. 23, which removes the “stabilization clause.” “Stabilization means that if you entered into a production sharing agreement, then you will execute this agreement for its duration under the rules – and typically its 30 to 50 years – under the rules that were agreed at the time of signing. So any subsequent changes to the tax code or whatever legislation will not affect you. “A production sharing agreement is typically for investments that will require billions of dollars. Nobody is going to put that money on the table unless you have some guarantees that the rules of the game are not changed mid way. Someone has decided that the stabilization clause should not be in there anymore, and has removed it. And I can tell you if that stabilization clause doesn’t go back again, then nobody in his right mind will be willing to come and invest here.” Kyiv Post staff writer John Marone can be reached at marone@kyivpost. com
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Ukraine’s Eurobond success could reopen financial markets BY G R A H A M S TAC K STACK@KYIVPOST.COM
Following Ukraine's successful placement this month of $2 billion of sovereign Eurobonds, analysts expect a succession of companies to follow suit and return to international capital markets for funding needs. The appetite to lend and invest into Ukrainian debt is rebounding, as demonstrated by Ukraine's first Eurobond placement since 2007, and its largest total to date. The country’s government, on Sept. 17, placed one 10-year $1.5 billion bond at 7.8 percent and a 5-year $500 million bond at 6.9 percent. In comparison, Ukraine's last pre-crisis Eurobond was a 10-year bond for $700 million placed at 6.75 percent in November 2007. More importantly, this month’s issue was several fold oversubscribed, showing that there ample investors and cash out on the market available for potential Ukrainian corporate issues. The government had first attempted to place its bonds in July this year, but broke off the attempt as the Greek sovereign debt crisis pushed the yields demanded by investors to over 8 percent. Following Ukraine's deal with the International Monetary Fund and subsequent upgrades from rating agencies, as well as the stabilization of the situation in Greece, the government decision to postpone the placement paid off. Now analysts expect a number of Ukrainian companies, including those who also postponed Eurobond plans earlier in the year, to return to international capital markets for funding. “Ukraine has got over the Greek hiccup,” said Kira Syvoplias of brokerage Millenium Capital. “The problem with low investor confidence is over, and the repercussions of the Greek crisis for Ukraine were not very significant.” In fact, there was not long to wait. Privatbank, Ukraine's largest bank by assets, placed a Eurobond on the same day as the government bond, raising $200 million after postponing earlier in the year. According to Sergey Fursa of Kyivbased brokerage Astrum Capital, state-owned Ukreximbank could be the next borrower, following a success-
ful $500 million placement in April. Fursa also sees Pivdenniy Bank likely to resume plans to raise $100 million through bonds, and Ukrsibbank could likewise raise $500 million. With Ukraine's agriculture sector coming through the crisis relatively unscathed, a number of listed agriculture companies are queuing to place their first Eurobonds. Ukraine's largest egg producer, Avangardco, acquired a Fitch rating at the end of August. A spokesperson for the company said the Eurobond placement was an on-going process the company would only be able to comment on in late October. Earlier the company spoke of the placement raising $200-$250 million. Sunflower oil producer Kernel also indicated in early September an upcoming Eurobond placement, possible before the end of the month. Analysts put the placement at around $200 million, with the funds going towards acquisitions in 2011. Media reported on Sept. 14 that farming company Mryia Agro Holding is planning to raise $300 million from a debut Eurobond sale this year. According to a Mriya source, however, the company is still studying the market. Mryia has ambitious plans to expand its landbank 2011-2013. Much of Ukraine's metal and mining sector is still reeling from the crisis, with billionaire Viktor Pinchuk's steel pipe manufacturer Interpipe this week gaining approval from creditors to restructure $200 million worth of pre-crisis Eurobonds. Iron ore producer Ferrexpo was seen preparing to go ahead with a $300-500 million Eurobond it postponed in July. But September 28 the company declared it had raised a $350 million loan. A source close to the company said the loan did not necessarily substitute for the planned bond, and the company was still monitoring the market and waiting until interest rates came down. Analysts thus see the total volume of corporate Ukrainian Eurobonds issued in 2010 as approaching $3 billion, with the total to date $2.3 billion, according to Mykyta Mykhaylychenko at Concorde Capital. Yields will range from 9.5-11 percent for corporates, with quasi-sovereign borrowers like Ukreximbank closer to 9 percent.
Celebrating 140 years A railway worker carries his son as he walks by an 1870 renovated steam locomotive at the central railway station in Kyiv on Sept. 23 (top photo). An actress in 19th-century clothes (right) also takes part in the festivities to mark the 140th anniversary of the nation's oldest and longest railway, the 6,500 kilometer southwest railway. The celebration also included theater and concerts. (AP)
Nation’s pension system close to bankruptcy (Reuters) – Those who think the French pension system is bloated should take a look at Ukraine, a nation which has not only preserved but enhanced generous Soviet retirement benefits -- which now threaten to bankrupt it. Street protests might come easier to the French than they do to the Ukrainians. But the government of President Viktor Yanukovych, who is being urged to raise the retirement age to 65 years for men and women, is still wary of a possible backlash. Relatively small on an individual basis -- about $140 a month on average -- total pension expenditure is a big burden on the ex-Soviet republic’s budget, making up 18 percent of gross domestic product in 2009, one of the highest rates in Europe. Ukraine’s aging population means the system’s financing needs will only increase unless it is changed. There are already nine pensioners for every 10 working people paying into the pension fund in Ukraine -- and this ratio is set to get worse. “No system can withstand those demographic trends,” said Marcin Swiecicki, director of the European Union-sponsored think tank Blue Ribbon Analytical and Advisory Center. “This would be a financial catastrophe.” The World Bank said in a report this month that fiscal reform, which includes an overhaul of the system, was “the most urgent priority” for Ukraine. “The unreformed pension system and Ukraine’s aging population threaten short-term fiscal stability (with growing deficits that are becoming unfinanceable) and long-term sustain-
ability,” it said. Ukraine was taxing payrolls at 35 percent in order to finance pensions -“one of the highest rates in the world”, Swiecicki said.
Growing burden But even that is not enough. Without reforms, by 2050, Ukraine will have to reduce its average pension to 28 percent of the average wage from the current 40 percent. And if it wants to keep pensions at the same level, the nation will have to raise the retirement age to 65 years for both men and women. Under the current rules, Ukrainian men can retire at 60 while women retire at 55. “Ukrainian women hold the world record in correlation between the length of retirement and the work period needed to obtain a pension: 7.1 years of staying retired for every 10 years of work,” Swiecicki said. That compares to 6.2 years in Italy and just 4.6 years in Germany, according to Blue Ribbon data. Opponents of change say earlier retirement in Ukraine is justified by the fact that life expectancy at birth in Ukraine is 7.8 years shorter than in the EU for women and 13.3 years shorter for men. Among other worries are the disparity between pensions in different sectors -- miners and military officers, for example, enjoy much higher benefits than an average pensioner -- and the fact that only 75 percent of workers pay pension contributions.
‘Big risk’ In his long-term reform program announced this year, Yanukovych
promised to radically change the pension system by switching to an accumulative system used in countries like Chile and ex-Soviet peers Russia and Kazakhstan. But the government has so far committed only to gradually raising women’s retirement age to 60, as spelt out by its $15 billion deal with the International Monetary Fund made in July. It also plans to reduce early retirement benefits and increase the qualification period for full benefits by 10 years. “This is not a complete solution but it represents a significant step forward,” said Blue Ribbon’s Swiecicki. The plans have not been clearly articulated at home. The Yanukovych government has prudently shelved discussion of the issue until after the Oct. 31 regional elections so as not to damage his Regions Party’s prospects at the poll. However, signaling that even modest reform plans could be reviewed, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Tigipko said this month the government would try to avoid retirement age adjustments -- a policy that could displease the IMF. “If we find ways to compensate (growing pension expenditures) without raising the retirement age, we will not raise it,” Tigipko told reporters. “If we don’t find ways to compensate we must stimulate people to continue working -- by enabling them to earn more for working every additional year and so on.” Carrying out pension reform in a slowly growing economy was “a big risk,” he added.
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Bank Forum complains of smear campaign BY G R A H A M S TAC K STACK@KYIVPOST.COM
A large Ukrainian bank owned by Germany’s Commerzbank claims that it has fallen victim to a damaging smear campaign allegedly concocted by Ukrainian businessmen who owe the bank tens of millions of dollars. Yaroslav Kolesnik, chairman of Commerzbank-owned Bank Forum, said that the media attack on his bank kicked off two weeks ago and is apparently aimed at destabilizing Forum. Allegedly slanted reports suggesting the imminent collapse of Forum, which ranks as Ukraine’s 13th largest bank in terms of net assets, have appeared largely on the Internet, according to Kolesnik. And the culprits behind the smear could be the banks’ own clients, trying by fraudulent means to avoid repayment of a fortune in loans. The troubled started two weeks ago. Three former regional Bank Forum managers held a press conference, complaining they had been made scapegoats for disbursing bad loans. The managers included the former head and deputy head of the Dnipropetrovsk branch, as well the former manager of the Khelmnitsky branch. It continued with publication of negative reports by Internet news outlets such as gazeta.ua, which were linked to advertisements posted in respected independent outlets such as Ukrainska Pravda. The articles alleged that Bank Forum was on the verge of bankruptcy. They also referred to reports that Russian state-owned bank Rosselkhozbank had called off an acquisition bid after due diligence revealed Bank Forum to be in a poor financial position. Kolesnik dismissed all talk of attempts by the German shareholders, Commerzbank, to sell Bank Forum as “fantasy” and said the bank remains sound. Kolesnik said suspects behind the black PR could include a number of million-dollar borrowers. He said that Forum had several large clients using schemes such as fictitious bankruptcy, asset transfer and resale of collateral to avoid paying back loans, against whom the bank was taking legal measures. One of the most problematic such clients, according to Kolesnik, is Dnipropetrovsk-based Sparta Group, co-founded by Gennady Axelrod and Oleg Levin. According to Kolesnik, Sparta Group owes Bank Forum around $38 million and is using fraudulent means to avoid repaying the debt. Whether Sparta group, or any other problematic Bank Forum client, is in fact behind the smear campaign remains unclear. Kolesnik said that Sparta Group used the Europe mall in Dnipropetrovsk as collateral for the $38 million loan. But in an attempt to wriggle out of the debt, the part of the street on which the building is located was renamed, so that the address of the property specified as collateral in the loan contract no longer corresponded to the current address of the building. The building was then resold a number of times. “According to Ukrainian legislation, the third resale is considered bona fide and is hard to challenge,” said Kolesnik. In April, Levin and Axelrod formally exited the business. Finally, Sparta declared itself bankrupt. Levin refused to comment on the
Yaroslav Kolesnik, chairman of the board of Bank Forum
Forum chairman say attacks aimed at destabilizing bank situation and said he had no knowledge of the smear campaign. Axelrod could not be reached. Media reports link Sparta Group to Ukraine’s powerful Privat business group, which is led by oligarchs Igor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Bogolubov, and originated in Dnipropetrovsk. The man who replaced Levin and Axelrod as formal owner of Sparta in April, Vitaly Timshin, is likewise linked to Privat, having been chairman of metallurgy company Privat-Intertrading from 1999 to 2009. Privat-Intertrading is a major shareholder in Privat Bank. Axelrod and Levin are also linked to prominent Dnipropetrovsk businessman Gennadiy Korban, chairman of Slavutich Capital, who in his turn is a partner of Kolomoisky and Bogolubov in oil refinery Ukrtatnafta. Axelrod, Levin and Korban recently jointly hit the headlines after a bomb exploded Sept. 17 under a sofa on which the three were sitting at the Pepperoni Restaurant in Dnipropetrovsk. The three men escaped with light injuries. Korban said later that he believed the bomb had targeted him. Kolesnik said, however, that he had doubts that the debt owned by Sparta to Bank Forum could spark such a concerted smear campaign. “We cannot be sure that behind the campaign are our problematic debtors,” he said. “The loan amount does not seem large enough to warrant such efforts. It seems more like a serious attempt to destabilize the bank.” Among other Forum clients failing to return major loans, Kolesnik named Poly-Pack, a Luhansk-based packaging company, and part of the Apex Group owned by Ihor Chaplygin. Kolesnik said Poly-Pack owed the bank $10 million, and was attempting to defraud Bank Forum via asset transfer and fictitious bankruptcy. “Bank Forum, today basically Commerzbank, takes a far tougher line on debt repayment than is usual for
Headquarters of Commerzbank, which owns Bank Forum in Ukraine, in Germany’s financial center of Frankfurt-amMain (top left). The Europe Shopping Centre in Dnipropetrovsk (top right) was used as collateral for a $38 million loan from the bank that has not been repaid. Bank officials say they are victims of a smear campaign, possibly by clients who refuse to repay loans, in a bid to tarnish the bank's reputation. (Courtesy)
Ukrainian-owned banks, and shows no readiness to compromise,” Chaplygin said. He said Poly-Pack had passed through insolvency due to non-payments to suppliers, but the situation was now resolved. Chaplygin said that Bank Forum has filed a lawsuit against Poly-Pack for an amount less than $10 million, but claimed Poly-Pack had in fact no outstanding debts to Bank Forum. Kolesnik ruled out any involvement in the smear campaign of the bank’s former shareholder, Leonid Yurushev, who sold out his remaining 25 per-
cent stake in the bank in February. “The deal was complicated, but both sides were satisfied, and there are no outstanding claims left. Anyone who knows Leonid Yurushev realizes that he would not harm a bank he spent so much time building up,” Kolesnik said. Banking analyst Anastasiya Tuyukova of Dragon Capital said that ‘’it looks like some bank may be trying to lower the acquisition price for Bank Forum. It is most likely some foreign, possibly Russian, bank, although some local banks such as Privat have in the past employed similar rude measures.”
Kolesnik said the bank’s owner, Germany’s Commerzbank, which holds 89.3 percent, remains fully committed to the bank and would not be deterred by the turbulence. But Kolesnik warned that it would be difficult for Ukrainian banks to resume lending until the courts deal effectively with such cases. Bank Forum posted a net loss of $186 million for the first half of 2010 due to increased provisioning for loan losses. Kyiv Post staff writer Graham Stack can be reached at stack@kyivpost.com
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Ukrainians: Visas still too difficult to obtain for travel to European Union nations BY SV ITL A NA TUCH Y NSKA TUCHYNSKA@KYIVPOST.COM
Keeping the memory alive Ukrainians on Sept. 29 marked the 69th anniversary of the 1941 Babyn Yar massacre, in which Nazi German soldiers massacred tens of thousands of Jews and others in a ravine outside of Kyiv. Viktor Stadnik, 77, (top) pauses at a Kyiv monument to the victims. Tamara Kovalenko, 73, holds a photo of her aunt and uncle, who were among the victims. The site turned into a mass grave for more than 100,000 people during two years of Nazi occupation in Kyiv, starting in 1941. (AP)
Constitutional Court likely to widen powers of president (Reuters) – A top court in Ukraine will on Oct. 1 hand down a ruling that could give President Viktor Yanukovych wider powers, enabling him to name his own government and tighten his grip on the country. Since Yanukovych came to power in February, his allies have pressed for him to recover presidential powers, lost in 2004 constitutional reforms, on the grounds this will enable him to push through reform. They have now asked the Constitutional Court’s 18 judges to rule that there were irregularities in a 2004 law which was brought in during the upheaval of the 2004 Orange Revolution street protests, the popular protest that led to a rigged election
being overturned in favor of The law shifted some presidential powers to parliament, chiefly the right to name the prime minister and most cabinet members, and frustrated the pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko in his five years in office which ended earlier this year. If the court rules in favour of the proposal, Yanukovych, who has quickly consolidated power since taking over from Yushchenko, will rule in a presidential system like that of many other former Soviet republics, including Russia. The Constitutional Court said on Sept. 30 it had reached its decision and would announce it on Oct. 1 in a session starting at 10 a.m.
The arrival of low-cost airlines to Ukraine and ease of booking trips on the Internet has made travels to Europe easier and cheaper. But applying for Schengen visas – needed for travel to many European Union countries – can be a stressful and expensive process for Ukrainians. Many are left bitter after refusals or complications, especially when they feel they have submitted all the necessary documents and met all requirements. Yevheniya Boyko and Maksym Zaitsev planned to celebrate their engagement with a two-week trip to Spain and France via Germany. But they had to cancel their trip after Boyko was not granted a Schengen visa by the German Embassy, even though they thought she had fulfilled all the requirements. Boyko applied twice for a visa at the German Embassy. She was told after her first refusal that the problem was her unemployed status, even though she had just graduated from university. She got her new employer to issue a letter confirming she would start work on Oct. 11. Zaitsev wrote to confirm he was paying for the trip and provided a bank statement – a common procedure if the person is not paying for his own trip, according to Schengen rules. Boyko blamed personal antipathy from the embassy staff for the refusal. The couple had to cancel their trip, losing 700 euros each paid for flights and hotels and 120 euros for the two failed visa applications. Ukrainians complain that decisions often seem arbitrary and requirements can differ between embassies, despite the introduction of a Visa Code by the European Union in 2009 harmonizing rules for visa issuance. “The situation varies in different embassies, and in absolutely the same situation one embassy can issue a visa without any questions while another will decline,” Oleksandr Sushko, head of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation. The German Embassy, for example, asks for confirmation of full hotel payment, despite the fact that absolute majority of hotels take a few percent of the price from customer’s credit card as booking confirmation. “Booking confirmation is enough for every embassy, except the German and sometimes the Polish one,” said Orest Bilous, head of a A visa is refused if applicant: • presents a false travel document; • gives no justification for the purpose and conditions of the intended stay; • provides no proof of sufficient means of subsistence for the duration of the stay nor for the return to his/her country of origin/residence; • has already stayed for 90 days in the current 180-day period; • has been issued an alert in the Schengen Information System (SIS) for the purpose of refusing entry; • is considered to be a threat to the public policy, internal security or public health of one of the Member States; • provides no proof of travel medical insurance, if applicable; • presents supporting documents or statements whose authenticity or reliability is doubtful. Source: Summary of Visa Code, http://europa.eu
Spurned applicants say that decisions appear arbitrary tourist firm who helps clients with visa applications. “The person has to ask the hotel to withdraw the full amount from his card, which few hotels want to do. Despite this, the embassy still can decline visa and then the person loses money.” The German Embassy said the check was necessary to confirm that accommodation costs are covered. But the requirement appears to go beyond that of the EU’s Visa Code, which stipulates that the applicant should provide “documents in relation to accommodation, or proof of sufficient means to cover his accommodation.” One of the biggest problems for Ukrainians is proving their salary, as a large proportion of employees are paid most of their salary in an envelope, rather than officially into their bank accounts. Taras Lopuszansky had a problem getting a visa from the Slovenian Embassy after he rented a villa near Lake Bland where he planned to spend vacation with family. He booked via U.K.-based website villarenters.com, but in the Slovenian embassy he was told the consul can call only Slovenian numbers to verify his booking. “He refused to call a non-Slovenian number and asked for a Slovenian one. This after an interview where I was interrogated regarding the goal of my trip for 20 minutes despite presenting all documents, insurance and credit cards,” Lopuszansky complained. The Slovenian Embassy declined to comment on specific cases. Lopuszansky said he feels by pressing this kind of requirements European countries are treating Ukrainians like second-class people. Experts say each country has the right to refuse anyone entry, and many are cautious because of some Ukrainians who overstay their visas. “There is a mistaken belief that a visa is an entitlement, but in reality every country has the right to allow or refuse entry to anyone for any reason it deems fit,” said an international immigration expert, speaking on condition of anonymity because of his official position. “There are instances where decisions are made arbitrarily, prompted by a subjective opinion of a consular officer, however most decisions are based on the merits and fact pattern presented by the applicant,” he added. The German Embassy said the most common reasons for refusal are either doubts regarding the purpose of the trip or the applicant’s willingness to return. Experts also point out that the rejection rate for Schengen visas is relatively low – 4.6 percent, according to Europe without Barriers, a Ukrainian nongovernmental organization. However, it is still higher than the 3 percent considered acceptable for countries like Ukraine that are seek-
Percentage of Ukrainians rejected for visas applications in 2009 Spain
14.7
Germany
10.9
Latvia
10.2
Belgium
9.0
Greece
9.0
Italy
7.1
Portugal
6.1
Netherlands
5.9
France
5.7
Denmark
4.3
Czech Republic
4.2
Slovenia
4.2
Finland
3.8
Estonia
3.6
Poland
3.3
Sweden
2.8
Austria
2.6
Lithuania
2.3
Hungary
2.2
Slovakia
2.1
Source: Europe Without Barriers
ing to sign a visa-free agreement with the EU. Meanwhile, the likelihood of receiving a visa shapes people’s travel destinations. “The majority of Ukrainians prefer to travel to countries where you either get a visa upon arrival or do not need visa at all,” said Olena Shapovalova, head of the Ukrainian Tourist Business Association. “Egypt and Turkey are not trendy just because they are cheap, but because the person does not have to collect documents and then wonder whether he or she will be granted a visa with vacation plans hanging in balance. The situation will not change until the EU softens its visa policy.” Shapovalova said many, especially those who have been denied a visa, feel so angry and humiliated they do not want to try again out of principle.
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Good news! Study shows fewer smoking in Ukraine BY N ATA L I A A . F E D US C HAK FEDUSCHAK@KYIVPOST.COM
A significant number of Ukrainian men and women have stopped smoking since 2005, two-thirds of current smokers would like to quit and more than 90 percent of the population supports a total ban on smoking in the workplace, according to the largest tobacco survey ever conducted in Ukraine. “We’re happy with the result,” said Nataliya Korol, a national survey officer from the World Health Organization’s Ukraine office. “But we can’t let up.” Released on Sept. 27, the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS), which was conducted between 2008-2010, provides not only detailed information about the country’s smoking habits, but also shows how they have changed since Ukraine’s parliament ratified in 2006 the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). FCTC was developed by WHO as the world’s first international public health treaty in an effort to combat the global smoking epidemic. The study showed that 28.8 percent of Ukrainian adults smoke, half of whom are men. Some 67.9 percent of current smokers said they would like to quit, while 40.5 percent tried to kick the habit in the past year. A large majority of adults, 93.1 percent, said they believe smoking causes serious illness, while 86.3 percent believe second-hand smoke is extremely harmful. Just less than 33 percent of adults inhale secondhand smoke daily or almost daily and 34 percent and34 percent are exposed to secondhand smoke at work. Two-thirds of adults surveyed said they noticed any anti-cigarette smoking information, and only 45.1 percent noticed cigarette marketing. Ukraine was one of 13 countries that undertook a GATS study. GATS is the international standard used for systematically monitoring adult tobacco use, both smoking and smokeless, and tracking key tobacco control indicators. It is a nationally representative survey that uses standard protocol across countries.
Participants in an April 23 anti-smoking protest are seen holding placards outside in Kyiv. They warned citizens about the health risks associated with smoking and urged responsible action from government officials who have long given into the powerful tobacco lobby by keeping cigarette prices in Ukraine among the lowest in the world. (UNIAN)
Tobacco prematurely kills more than 100,000 people in Ukraine annually and is some 13 percent of the country’s disease burden. Around 70 percent of tobacco-related deaths occur in the 35-69 age groups, experts said. The drop in smoking rates has come despite a strong tobacco lobby in the Ukrainian parliament, which cuts across all political groups, said officials who presented the GATS finding at a press conference in Kyiv. In fact, the lobby has kept taxes low, making Ukraine’s cigarettes among the cheapest in Europe.
“This decrease was the result of introducing measures in Ukraine which showed their effectiveness in other countries,” said Mykola Polischuk, Ukraine’s former health minister who authored the country’s tobacco control law adopted in 2005. Lawmaker Lesiya Orobets, however, said her colleagues are still dragging their feet in approving graphic warnings that are to be placed on cigarette cartons to dissuade smokers. “They say in (parliament) that these drawings are terrible,” she said sarcastically. Officials are concerned that cigarette
companies will target young people now that adults appear to be cutting back on smoking. Indirect tobacco costs to Ukraine’s economy were about $3 billion in 2007. To ensure the young don’t light up and adults continue to quit, experts said Ukraine must raise excise taxes on cigarettes. “When cigarettes are cheaper than chocolate and milk, priority number one is to raise taxes,” said Hanna Hapko, the advocacy coordinator in Ukraine for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit group that has worked to get anti-smoking
laws passed in parliament and cooperates with other organizations on antitobacco educational campaigns. Konstantin Krasovsky, who heads the tobacco control unit at the health ministry’s Ukrainian Institute of Strategic Research, told the Kyiv Post other steps that should be taken to decrease tobacco use in Ukraine include establishing a national monitoring and surveillance system to measure the effectiveness of tobacco control policies and tobacco consumption; amending national legislation and regulations to increase coverage and improve enforcement of smoke-free policies; establishing a comprehensive national system of activities to diagnose and treat tobacco dependence; create greater visibility of messages about the various dangers of tobacco use, including nargile, cigarillos and other tobacco products and developing other informational activities. “Legislation should be amended to remove point-of-sale, Internet, and other kinds of tobacco advertising,” he said. “These policies, when fully enacted and enforced, will reduce the burden of disease and deaths in those who smoke or are exposed to the tobacco smoke of others.” In September 2009, the Cabinet of Ministers approved a national targeted social program until 2012 that mitigates harmful effects of tobacco on human health and monitors the effectiveness of policies for the prevention and reduction of tobacco use. The GATS survey was based on 8,173 completed interviews with individuals 15 years of age and older from randomly selected households. It was conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) and supported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, WHO and Bloomberg Philanthropies, an umbrella organization which manages the charitable donations of billionaire Michael R. Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City. Kyiv Post staff writer Natalia A. Feduschak can be reached at feduschak@ kyivpost.com
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Political motive in attack? 1 west of Kyiv, under cover of darkness. They swept past security guards at the entrance and briefly scuffled with police before disappearing into the night. Unofficially, six people were injured in the assault – two concertgoers, two private security officers and two police officers. Official reports say only three people were injured seriously enough to be hospitalized. But initial reports that the attackers were armed with baseball bats and iron rods were later discounted by the authorities. No arrests have been announced and no motive for the bizarre attack has been identified by police. The festival organizer, opposition parliamentarian Oles Doniy, suggested a political motive could have been behind the incident. The festival brought together opposition politicians and patriotic rock groups whose stance run contrary to the vision of Ukrainian history and culture espoused by President Viktor Yanukovych’s administration, which has been labeled “pro-Russian” and even “anti-Ukrainian” by critics. There is clearly tension between the festival’s participants and the ruling pro-presidential Party of Regions. Vadym Kolesnychenko, a vociferously pro-Russian lawmaker in Yanukovych’s Party of Regions, had appealed on Sept. 24 to the Security Service of Ukraine to keep tabs on the event, warning it would be used to foment public unrest and incite rebellion among young Ukrainians. “The bands scheduled to play at the festival are known for their xenophobic and ultra-nationalist songs,” Kolesnychenko said. Jewish Forum leader Arkady Monastyrskiy and
Ruslan Bortnik, head of the Common Chain Russian nationalist organization, co-signed the letter. The event's organizer's denied such accusations.
its employees were injured in the attack, but refused to comment about their injuries or talk about the altercation.
‘Small-town gang’
The festival had caused controversy even before it started, with critics accusing it of inciting extremism, which organizers denied. Festival organizer Doniy, a lawmaker from the Our Ukraine–People’s Self Defense parliamentary bloc, said extremist rhetoric was discouraged during the festival and alcoholic beverages were strictly prohibited. Evening performances by popular Ukrainian music groups, including TNMK, Mertvyi Piven, Vertep, Tanok na Maidani Kongo and Tartak, were the main attractions at the jubilee. The Hr 50 price of admission provided access to independent television station stars and daily lectures on a wide variety of topics, ranging from Cossack history, Security Service of Ukraine archives and the law on local elections to post-modern Ukrainian culture, the lyrics of Taras Shevchenko and how to organize a new opposition movement. Lecturers included Soviet-era political prisoner Stepan Khmara, former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, as well as Ukrainian nationalists Ivan Zaets and Yuriy Hrymchak, both lawmakers with parliament’s Our Ukraine–People’s Self Defense bloc. Jerom Rozendaal, a Dutch journalist resident in Irpin who attended several of the tent talks, said they resembled opposition pep rallies. “I much preferred the music,” he told the Kyiv Post.
The incident occurred on the last evening of three-day long festival in Irpin’s Victory Park commemorating the 20th anniversary of a hunger strike by students in October 1990, a key event in the run-up to Ukraine’s declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. “Around 8:45 p.m. on Sept. 26 a group of about two dozen men entered the park,” Misha Orlyuk, a festivalgoer, told the Kyiv Post. “It was dark. The attackers wore tracksuits and looked like a medium-sized small-town gang.” Orlyuk, 25, said he stumbled upon the group minutes after an altercation between several of it's members with two police officers guarding the entrance to the venue. “I saw members of the group flee after security guards hired by the concert organizers intercepted them about 50 meters from the concert stage,” he said. “It was all over in less than 10 minutes.” The account corroborates the official police version, which says a group of 20-30 aggressive youths entered festival grounds without buying tickets, overpowered two policemen and approached the concert stage. At least six people were involved in the ensuing melee with private security guards. When it was over, two gang members, two policemen and two security guards were taken to hospital for treatment of various head and hand wounds. The Vulkan security firm hired by festival organizers confirmed that two of
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Motive Doniy suggested a political motive for the attack on the festival, which was used in part to drum up opposition to perceived “anti-Ukrainian” policies promoted by President Viktor Yanukovych and Education Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk. “Perhaps the latest attacks on government critics and on the festival are being coordinated through one entity?” he told the BBC on Sept. 28, referring to the government’s crackdown on opposition politicians. “Either this is the explanation, or the authorities are trying to create an atmosphere where everything connected to Ukrainian culture and free press is regarded as abnormal and unpleasant.” He said the incident reminded him of when so-called “anarchists” mysteriously appeared and attacked opposition demonstrators during the Ukraine Without Kuchma protests in the early 2000s in opposition to former President Leonid Kuchma, who left
office in 2005. However, pro-government lawmakers blamed the Irpin concert organizers. In a post to his website on Sept. 27, Kolesnychenko urged law enforcement agencies to find the organizers of the attack, alleging dirty tricks by the opposition. “Organizing provocations and creating an atmosphere of fear and hatred in society is the hallmark of both the organizers of the Gaidamaki.UA festival and their puppet masters, who hold the strings and stand behind the curtains,” Kolesnychenko said. Tabachnyk also took a potshot at the opposition on the same day in comments that appeared connected to the attack. “Instead of offering a valid alternative to the current political course and the development of society, our opponents are resorting to political terrorism and hooliganism,” he said. Kyiv Post staff writer Peter Byrne can be reached at byrne@kyivpost.com
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SBU under fire for using KGB-style tactics BY OL E S I A O L E S H KO OLESHKO@KYIVPOST.COM
One of the most reputable Ukrainian weeklies recently ran a joke: “In 2003 [then-Ukrainian President] Leonid Kuchma published his book named ‘Ukraine is not Russia.’ In 2010, he is going to publish another one: ‘I Was Mistaken [about that]’.’’ After President Viktor Yanukovych and his team came to power on Feb. 25, the country radically changed its course eastward. The president started copying the governing style of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. A crackdown on political opposition began under the cloak of an anti-corruption campaign. In Russia, media were tamed and politically disobedient oligarchs brought to heel. All of it is reminiscent of the Soviet Union, the political entity that Putin and so many others admired, where the fearsome KGB was one of the main enforcers of the authoritarian system. Now, in Russia, the successor agency to the KGB is the Federal Security Service, known as the FSB. And it, too, under Putin’s patronage has Soviet-like powers. In Ukraine, the equivalent law enforcement agency is the Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU. During Viktor Yushchenko’s five-year presidency ending on Feb. 24, the SBU behaved a lot less like an oppressive law enforcement agency. Under the leadership of Valentyn Nalyvaychenko, a Yushchenko appointee, the agency became more open to the public and declassified a lot of previously secret historical documents. Is all that changing now for the worse? Some think so. “You can’t help but notice that the atmosphere in Ukraine is getting rotten. It resembles Soviet times,” said lawmaker
Stepan Kurpil, a parliamentarian with the opposition Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko. “I feel like we are living again in the Soviet Union.”
International groups With one of Ukraine’s top oligarchs, Valeriy Khoroshkovsky, in charge of the SBU, the agency is reverting to heavyhanded practices, drawing public outrage. Khoroshkovsky, seen as the Yanukovych administration’s top enforcer, would not be interviewed for this story. But one of Khoroshkovsky’s close associates, presidential chief of staff Sergiy Lyovochkin, blamed the criticism of Khoroshkovky and the SBU on political critics waging an unfounded campaign of discreditation. While Koroshkovsky wouldn't be interviewed for this article, SBU spokesperson Maryna Ostopenko said: " Nevertheless, SBU actions speak for themselves. Several days ago Viktoria Siumar, executive director of Mass Information Institute, a media think tank, said that SBU employees asked her concierge about her routine under the pretext of investigating a shady company registered at her address. “It’s complete nonsense,” Siumar said. “We’ve been living here since the condo was built and there was no company here.” Siumar was also surprised by the reaction of Party of Region’s lawmaker Inna Bohoslovska who, according to Siumar, told her: “Well, your organization is funded through international grants, so it has to be checked.” Earlier Mykola Kniazhytsky, director of TVi channel, complained he had been shadowed by SBU operatives. SBU agents have also been in con-
Security Service of Ukraine head Valeriy Khoroshkovsky flict with international organizations and foundations accredited in Ukraine. Three months ago, Nico Lange – director of the democracy-promoting Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Ukraine -- was denied entry into the nation for several hours. There has not been a public explanation. Shortly after, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned international organizations to stay out of direct involvement in politics. On Sept. 6, however, the International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) posted a statement saying that the SBU contacted its grantee organizations and asked them to provide information about foundation-funded projects, including the financial information and evaluation of their impact on the upcoming local Oct. 31 elections. Yevhen Bystrytsky, IRF executive director, said the foundation does not endorse any political forces in Ukraine. Instead,
Bystrytsky said, the foundation is focused on charity projects for people with physical disabilities, low-income families, orphans and pensioners. “Nothing like this has happened before,” Bystrytksy said. Bystrytsky believes the SBU encounters with the International Renaissance Foundation and Lange are linked. “Those are very unwise actions done by officials, including those from SBU,” Bystrytksy said. Siumar said that the SBU is mistaken if it thinks it can intimidate civil society and political opponents. “It really looks like they didn’t properly analyze what caused the Orange Revolution,” said Siumar, referring to the popular uprising that overturned a rigged presidential election in 2004, leading to Viktor Yanukovych’s triumph over Viktor Yanukovych for president on Dec. 26, 2004. “The Orange Revolution was not fueled by international foundations and grants. It was fueled by intimidation, pressure, censorship, corruption and the absence of independent justice.”
Historians, academia On Sept. 8, six SBU agents detained Ruslan Zabily, an historian and director of Lviv Lontsky Prison Memorial, and interrogated him for more than 14 hours without letting him call a lawyer. The SBU officers confiscated his laptop and external hard drives, where he kept electronic copies of declassified documents and his research files. They tried to persuade him to stop his research and think about teaching at school instead, as it “would be better for his family.” Zabily says the agents were acting on verbal orders from Khoroshkovsky and were looking for documents that could have been used for Zabily’s research on strategy and tactics of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, known by the UPA acronym, the guerrilla fighters who battled
Soviets to achieve Ukrainian national independence during World War II. “They asked me if I had any documents marked with secret/top secret, which is completely ridiculous, as the documents I was working with were all declassified,” Zabily said. But now, Zabily and others believe, documents shedding light on Soviet atrocities in Ukraine will become classified as secret again – part of a new Kremlin-friendly historical revisionism. “Revealing the truth about the Holodomor (the 1932-1933 Josef Stalinordered famine that killed millions of Ukraines) and UPA impedes spreading Russia’s influence on Ukraine,” Zabily explained. “Russia wants to implant its own national myths here in Ukraine, so the Ukrainian ones have got to go.” On Sept. 9, Zabily learned that a criminal case has been launched against him. The researcher is also accused of publishing a state secret. SBU spokesperson Maryna Ostapenko confirmed that Zabily was suspected of disseminating state secrets and collecting information in an unlawful manner. SBU officials are also trying to trace Zabily’s contacts with Ukrainian and foreign historians whose research focused on the history of Ukraine under the Communist regime. The SBU appears to be trying to infiltrate the academic community once again, like its Soviet KGB predecessor. In May, agents tried to recruit Borys Hudziak, rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Gudziak refused to cooperate. Zabily also thinks that SBU’s visits to Hudziak and organizations funded by the International Renaissance Foundation are linked. “Those can’t be just coincidences,” Zabily said. Kyiv Post staff writer Olesia Oleshko can be reached at oleshko@kyivpost.com
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Tax police fire on workers in Berdyansk, injuring four 1 started at 9 a.m. as plant employees arrived at work. At least four workers were wounded, two seriously enough to be hospitalized. The region’s top tax official was quick to defend the actions of his subordinates as self-defense, accusing workers of attacking the tax police. However, eyewitness accounts and video of the incident posted on YouTube contradict the official version of events that workers fired first on police. The six-minute, 31-second clip has since become the latest Ukrainian YouTube sensation (at www.youtube. com/watch?v=CvwYGZMCxNc&featur e=player_embedded), with more than 90,000 hits since it was posted on Sept. 24. The video shows eight young tax police officers wearing face-covering masks and bulletproof vests blocking workers from their offices. The workers are unarmed in the clip. Syatoslav Olyinyk, a parliament deputy from the opposition Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko, appealed to President Viktor Yanukovych and the Prosecutor General Oleksandr Medvedko to intervene. “What happened is a glaring example of the socially dangerous behavior exhibited by the nation’s tax police. No one can feel safe in a country where tax agents wearing masks are shooting unarmed civilians,” Olyinyk said. “The mere fact that tax policemen opened fire out in the middle of street is outrageous. This altercation shows the need to either replace those who head the country’s tax police, or to eliminate this law enforcement agency altogether.” The official version is this: Tax agents and tax police were deployed to a Berdyansk agricultural enterprise early on Sept. 24 to seize documents related to a criminal case when they were met by armed men demanding entry to the premises. “Some of these men carried cameras,” Viktor Yashchenko, head of Zaporozhia Oblast’s tax police directorate, told journalists on Sept. 27. “Others carried automatic weapons, and one of the men began shooting from a gas pistol.
Tax police were forced to return fire using rubber bullets to restore order.” Video footage of the incident shows only tax agents carrying pistols and automatic weapons. Eyewitnesses to the melee, which took place on a 12-hectare plot occupied by some 20 enterprises, say it was tax police who fired on workers and not the other way around. Local journalists covering the story said a special detachment of armed tax police were deployed from Zaporizhia to Berdyansk to carry out the raid, which was supervised by a local tax inspector. Valeriya Bukhanova, a journalist with weekly newspaper Berdyanskie Vedomosti, said most of the two dozen or so enterprises located in the compound process and store various types of motor oils. “Nothing like this has ever happened in Berdyansk before,” Bukhanov told the Kyiv Post on Sept. 28. But it did happened again, on Sept. 29, this time in Kherson, where a raid by a dozen tax police officers on an enterprise resulted in the hospitalization of mayoral candidate Vladlen Hiryn. Hiryn and several enterprise workers attempted to repel the law enforcement agents, saying the police action was illegal and aimed at preventing Hiryn from running for political office. Hiryn received wounds to the face and shoulder during the tussle and was taken to a hospital for treatment. Collecting taxes has been a police function in Ukraine since the late 1990s, when the agency under former tax chief Mykola Azarov (1996-2001), now the nation’s prime minister, was accused of harassing entrepreneurs and companies with ties to opposition leaders. Tax police, who are subordinate to the State Tax Administration, seek out and arrest individuals who avoid paying taxes and businesses which neglect reporting to tax authorities. Kyiv Post staff writer Peter Byrne can be reached at byrne@kyivpost.com
Armed tax police officers in Berdyansk stand behind Andriy Shevchenko, deputy chief of the Berdyansk tax authority, during a Sept. 24 raid on a business there. Officers shot four workers, injuring two seriously enough to be hospitalized, during the confrontation. Eyewitnesses said the workers were unarmed and did not provoke the assault. (Alexey Kalinin/Courtesy of Berdyanskie Novosti newspaper)
Vladlen Hiryn, a candidate for Kherson mayor, was hospitalized on Sept. 29 when a squad of tax police officers raided businesses allegedly tied to him. Supporters said Sept. 30 that the raid was an attempt to prevent Hiryn from running for mayor in the Oct. 31 election. (UNIAN)
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The proFFesor’s latest flub: Yanukovych without a clue Editor’s Note: Professor is deliberately misspelled in the headline, a reference to President Viktor Yanukovych’s declaration as a presidential candidate in 2004, when he made more than a dozen mistakes on the Central Election Commission form, including misspelling “proffesor.” Such mistakes have raised questions about the legitimacy of Yanukovych’s claim to having a master’s degree in international law and a doctorate of science in economics.
AL E X A N D E R J. MOT Y L
As readers of the Kyiv Post no doubt know, on the eve of his Sept. 21-24 visit to New York, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych penned an open letter to the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, in which he appealed for cooperation with the Ukrainian disapora. The diaspora in general and the UCCA in particular responded by snubbing him--not only refusing to meet with the president, but also organizing a demonstration against him. Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Hryshchenko then criticized the diaspora for living according to old stereotypes and for not living in Ukraine-implying that they’re just a bunch of old fogies and turncoats. If supporting Ukrainian language, culture, and identity is old-fashioned, and if supporting democracy is treacherous--then so be it. But what’s perfectly clear, and far more important, is that Yanukovych and Co. failed to do their elementary homework. As even a junior diplomat from a minor country can tell you, the first rule of diplomacy is: never go public with something unless you are absolutely certain of success. Yanukovych and his advisors should have known that the Ukrainian diaspora is hostile toward his administration for two nonnegotiable reasons: his policies are anti-Ukrainian and anti-democratic. Even a casual stroll through the Ukrainian neighborhood in New York would have led Yanukovych’s minions to realize that the diaspora will not budge on these two issues. Any Ukrainian-American could have told him that. Heck, I could have told
him that, if he’s genuinely serious about enlisting the diaspora’s support, Minister of Education and Science Dmytro Tabachnik and Head of the Security Service Valeriy Khoroshkovsky have got to go. What Yanukovych’s latest faux pas means--and make no mistake about it: to be turned down by some diaspora organization is the ultimate diplomatic failure--is that Yanukovych’s people have no clue about Ukrainians living abroad. And that means that both Hryshchenko and Khoroshkovsky failed to do their jobs: after all, it’s the job of diplomats and spies to know what foreigners are thinking about. (This may explain Hryshchenko’s intemperate comments about the diaspora: he knows he flubbed and probably should be sacked.) Worse, they could’ve found out so easily. All they had to do was hang out with Ukrainian-Americans at some local New York bar or pick up a copy of The Ukrainian Weekly. Evidently, they didn’t even do that. Couldn’t they afford a subway ride downtown? Don’t they speak Ukrainian or English? Or did they just assume that, when the boss of Donetsk expresses a wish, everyone will naturally interpret it as a command and jump to attention? But forget the diaspora. The real meaning of Yanukovych’s unprofessionalism is this. If Yanukovych’s team of proFFesionals is so unprofessional when it comes to something as minor as relations with the diaspora, one can begin to imagine how utterly outclassed they must have been while negotiating fleets, pipelines, and energy with the Russians, free trade zones and visa-free travel with the Europeans, or trade and investment with the Chinese. Those guys are pros, and they know what they’re doing. Yanukovych and his friends clearly are not and do not. One can just imagine how Russian, European, and Chinese diplomats must be running circles around Yanukovych’s band of amateurs. Small wonder that Moscow was able to sucker Kyiv into extending the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s basing rights in the Crimea for nothing. As W.C. Fields put it, “Never give a sucker an even break.” And Yanukovych’s proFFesionals are acting like, alas, suckers. Psst, Viktor: Do ya wanna buy the Brooklyn Bridge? Alexander J. Motyl is professor of political science at Rutgers University. He can be reached at ajmotyl@andromeda.rutgers.edu
U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and U.S. President Barack Obama pose at the United Nations in New York on Sept. 23. (UNIAN)
About 200 Ukrainian-Americans in New York took to the streets on Sept. 22 to protest President Viktor Yanukovych’s policies. Ukrainian diaspora groups also rejected Yanukovych’s invitation to meet with him during the president's New York trip from Sept. 21-24, when Yanukovych spoke at the United Nations General Assembly. (UNIAN)
Ukrainians abroad made mistake by snubbing president WOL ODY MY R D ERZ KO
The question of how the Ukrainian diaspora living in the West should deal with Ukraine’s pro-Russian and anti-democracy stance has arisen several times since the election of the President Viktor Yanukovych on Feb. 7. The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America chose to ignore and bypass a meeting with the Ukrainian leader on his recent trip to New York from Sept. 21-24. Instead, they held a protest rally during the meetings of the United Nations General Assembly, where Yanukovych spoke. As Tamara Olexy, head of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America told the Kyiv Post: “We understood that there is no sense to meet with Viktor Yanukovych. The president has not yet answered the list of grievances that the World Congress of Ukrainians presented to him at the meeting in June of this year despite his promise.” This leads to a bigger question: Strategically, what other options are available to Ukrainian community leaders when dealing with the current Ukrainian government? It’s not as simple as a dichotomous yes or no decision. The question has not been well explored and discussed. Traditionally, the Ukrainians abroad have exclusively used only two negotiation tactics in conflict situations with Ukraine: isolation and/or confrontation. Ask any master’s in business administration student who has taken a basic course in conflict resolution and they will tell you that there are three more approaches, which the diaspora is ignoring and is not utilizing in its negotiation tool kit. I’m constantly amazed at this fre-
quent lack of transfer from professional life to volunteer life. Skills and techniques that managers, executives, consultants and professionals regularly use during the day are ignored in the evening, when we sit down as volunteers in our Ukrainian organizations. While the snubbing of Yanukovych by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America in New York could be considered by many as a short-term public relations victory, in my mind, it was a tactical and strategic error. A much bigger and more important opportunity window was ignored and missed by Ukrainian diaspora leaders in the West. Most people don’t realize that the Yanukovych government now desperately needs the support of the leadership institutions in the Ukrainian diaspora, in both Canada and the United States. Why? And why now? One signal that was misinterpreted by the diaspora, just before the Yanukovych visit to New York, was the token attempt at a last minute reproachment with the western Ukrainian diaspora, which included the sudden reappearance of an edited and watered down Holodomor web page on the Ukrainian presidential web site. It came as a reply to the five-month-old letter of demands from the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and included an offer to reopen the KGB archives on Holodomor and to set up a public TV broadcast station in Ukraine. Is Yanukovych suddenly turning democrat? No. The Yanukovych government is seeking a prestigious and influential two-year seat at the United Nations Security Council. This requires convincing two thirds of the 192 member countries of the United Nations to vote for Ukraine. The key influential players here are the USA and Canada. Without their overt support, any bids for a seat on the UN Security Council are doomed to failure. “Ukraine is ready to discuss all the
promising concepts of reform of the Security Council,” Yanukovych told the UN General Assembly “We are convinced that the key to success is recognizing the interests of all regional groups, which are underrepresented in this body, in particular the Eastern European one.” With this pronouncement, Ukrainians living abroad in America and Canada now suddenly find themselves in an elevated position, holding two strategically important trump cards in Ukraine’s bid for nomination to the Security Council. Sadly, this issue is not even on the Ukrainian diaspora radar. The Yanukovych government needs to court the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and the Ukrainian World Congress to convince both the American and Canadian governments – and other strategic member countries – to support Ukraine’s future UN bid. Ukrainians living abroad hold an important “supporter trump card” to support Ukraine’s bid as well as a “detractor trump card” to derail or torpedo Ukraine’s bid. According to Kyiv Post article on chronicling Yanukovych’s visit (Sept. 24, Ukrainians in New York greet Yanukovych with snub, protest”: “Olexander Motryk, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, called Askold Lozynskyj several days before Yanukovych’s visit and asked what the president could do to avoid the street protest. Lozynskyj answered: fire Soldatenko [head of the Institute of National Memory], Education Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk and recognize the Holodomor as genocide.” With these two trump cards, the diaspora can add many more demands to the negotiation table. Wolodymyr (Walter) Derzko is a senior fellow at the Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) and a lecturer in the master’s of arts program in Strategic Foresight and Innovation, Ontario College of Art & Design University in Toronto, Canada.
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Kudelia: Western degree no good? 4 enduring suspicion and even hatred among many Ukrainians of anyone coming from the West. Thus, any campaign for a simplified procedure of recognizing Western degrees may be viewed as an attempt to make it easier for Western-educated scholars to indoctrinate young Ukrainian minds. Still, I would argue that the time is ripe for the Ukrainian government and other political forces to put this issue on the forefront of their agenda. There are three major reasons why Ukraine would benefit from it. Firstly, it will help to improve the quality of Ukraine’s higher education. Currently, no Ukrainian university is ranked in any authoritative worldwide university rankings. Ukrainian higher education remains on the periphery of the world’s education process. It is backward both in management style and in scholarly substance. The current government seems to have already recognized that. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov recently announced plans to bring leading international scholars to teach in Ukrainian universities. However, having foreign scholars as guest lecturers is not enough. They should be incited to stay and become a permanent part of the faculty producing valuable research and introducing new teaching techniques. Western PhDs already work productively in the leading universities in Russia, Kazakhstan and Georgia. Ukraine should catch up with them and take the lead.
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Nation’s hidebound academics still fear, even hate the West Secondly, it will help to reverse the “brain drain” and bring many bright Ukrainians home. During my 10 years of studying in the U.S, I met a few talented Ukrainians pursuing their doctoral studies in the best American and European universities. None of them was interested in returning and pursuing an academic career in Ukraine. It was never a viable option, not because of their lack of desire to do teaching and research in Ukraine, but due to the very practical considerations – the sense of being alienated by the state, the lack of financial security and the corrupt rules of the academic game. The first step to bring Ukrainians with Western degrees back is to make them feel wanted. And the change in the nostrification rules would be a powerful first signal. Finally, it will benefit the Ukrainian society at large. Currently only major private companies and some Ukrainian
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government officials can afford to hire Western educated lawyers, bankers and policy consultants to work on their reform plans and bottom lines. Having Western Ph.D.s versed in the current scholarly literature and modern research trends share their knowledge with thousands of young Ukrainians will make the country more competitive in the long-term. It may also change the society’s current disillusionment with the low quality of Ukraine’s higher education and make us again believe in its promise to transform people’s lives. Many countries around the world introduced special policies to entice Western-educated scholars to work at their universities at the crucial developmental period in their histories. For Turkey or South Korea the emphasis on adding Western Ph.D.s to the faculty of their universities logically coincided with these countries’ modernization efforts. Ukraine is also currently in the midst of another reform effort. And its outcome will, to a large extent, depend on whether we will see the wall separating Ukraine from the worldwide academic community demolished once and for all. Serhiy Kudelia holds a Ph.D. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University and M.A. in political science from Stanford University. He is currently working at the political science department of the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”. His email is skudelia@hotmail.com
Why governments need to take action on climate change
LE I G H TU R N E R
Foreign policy, at its heart, is about ensuring the security and prosperity of our citizens. We can’t do this unless we develop an effective strategy for dealing with climate change. Climate security is inseparably connected to energy security, food security and water security. That is why William Hague, the British foreign secretary, gave a major speech on climate change at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Sept. 27. In his speech, he said that failure to respond to climate change was contrary to the values of the United Nations and Britain, “undermining trust between nations, intensifying competition for resources and shrinking the political space available for co-operation.” The point here is that without an effective response to climate change, the security of all of us will be threatened and our economies will weaken. The poorest and most vulnerable will bear the brunt of the impact. As the foreign secretary set out: “We have a shared vision to meet the millennium development goals. In a world without action on climate change that vision will remain a dream. The effort of the last 10 years will be wasted.” Britain is responding. The United Kingdom is about to establish a Green
Investment Bank to leverage faster flows of private capital into low carbon infrastructure and get us off the hook of dependence on oil and gas. We are also radically transforming our electricity network and pushing the European Union to cut emissions by 30 percent by 2020. We’re doing this not only because we believe it’s right, but because it’s in our interests – and those of all of our partners. The global low carbon economy is already estimated to be worth up to $5 trillion a year. Britain’s share of that is $176 billion, with nearly one million British people employed in the low carbon sector. But an effective response cannot be developed alone. We need others to act too. That is why we are calling for a global climate deal under the United Nations. It is why we are calling on European Union countries to modernize their infrastructure and address the low carbon challenge. And it is why we are calling on all countries – both developed and developing – to take action. Persuading governments worldwide of the action we all need to take is a big challenge. But it’s a challenge we must all tackle in order to take robust and timely action before it is too late. As the foreign secretary said: “If we do, we can still shape our world. If we do not, the world will determine our destiny.” Leigh Turner has been the British ambassador to Ukraine since June 2008. You can read all his blog entries at blogs.fco.gov.uk/roller/turnerenglish (in English) or blogs.fco.gov.uk/roller/ turner/ (Ukrainian).
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October 1, 2010
Yanukovych is living in a Wonderland AL E X A N D E R J. MOT YL
The policy and business elites who attended the Atlantic Council’s September 24th luncheon in New York with Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych may be wondering just what he meant by what he said — and, more important, by what he did not say. The good news is that his “address” was probably written by his minions — possibly in Ukrainian, possibly in Russian — and then translated into barely adequate English (with a noticeable absence of definite and indefinite articles). The speech may therefore be assumed to reflect Yanukovych’s views, and not those of his American handler, the political consultant Paul Manafort. It’s important to remember that, despite Yanukovych’s claim to be a straight shooter, he is above all a product of Soviet politics and ideology and their current incarnation in his bailiwick — Ukraine’s reactionary rustbelt, the Donbas. That means he knows that words, and their manipulation, matter. So, as Americans try to maneuver through Yanukovych’s linguistic Wonderland, they may be advised to keep the following translation manual in mind. Let’s go through some of the main claims made by Yanuklovych and determine what they really mean or what really lies behind them. Claim: “For the first time in the modern history of Ukraine – the president, the government and the parliament (to be exact the coalition majority that has been formed) are moving in the same strategic direction, not in three different ones as was the case earlier.” Reality: Yanukovych fails to mention that this unprecedented unanimity is the product of crude constitutional shenanigans that enabled his Party of Regions to form a majority in the parliament and thus a government. Claim: “I put forward tough, but accomplish-
able requirements to reduce licensing procedures by 90 percent, to cut the number and scope of activities of the controlling bodies to the fullest extent possible in order to substantially decrease the tax pressure.” Reality: Revenue collection by the government is woefully below target, with the result that tax collectors have been set loose on the small- and medium-sized businesses Yanukovych claims to support. More important, Yanukovych fails to explain just how the liberalizing measures he ostensibly supports can be reconciled with an authoritarian bureaucracy dominated by one party — his own — and intent on never giving up power to an opposition that Yanukovych’s people have publicly vowed to destroy. Claim: “This and other measures have already brought in first considerable results – we have not only stopped an unprecedented economic downslide in a time of peace, but set forward a steady economic development – more than 6 percent gross domestic product growth in the first six months of this year.” Reality: As everybody knows, no government policies can affect GDP immediately. There’s always a time lag of several months, maybe more. Ukraine’s economic growth in the first half of 2010 is thus due either to the policies of the Tymoshenko government or, more likely, to the general upswing in the global economy. We’ll see what impact Yanukovych’s policies will have only in 2011. Claim: “I think you will be interested to know how I understand democracy. Of all its various definitions the following is the closest to me: Democracy means stable state institutions, broad civic freedoms and justice. A state in which these principles are being violated is doomed to have corruption, chaos, lawlessness or authoritarianism.” Reality: No self-respecting political theorist anywhere would define democracy as stability plus broad civic freedoms plus justice. Democracy, Yanukovych may be interested in knowing, is about “rule of the people” — and that means, above all, fair and free elections in which competing and viable parties take part. That Yanukovych says nothing about elections is his way of say-
Before you, my dear followers, is the first Ukrainian czar. Get used to it! We just need to make a couple changes to the Constitution first.
NEWS ITEM: The Constitutional Court is expected on Oct. 1 to announce its ruling on an attempt by pro-presidential lawmkers to scuttle 2004 amendments to Ukraine’s Constitution and return to the 1996 document that gave the president broader powers to pick the prime minister and Cabinet of Ministers. Supporters say return to a stronger presidential system will help end the political gridlock of the last five years. Critics say Yanukovych’s followers are simply out to monopolize power in all branches of government and end checks and balances. (Drawing by Anatoliy Petrovich Vasilenko)
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych waits to address the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23 at United Nations headquarters. (AP)
ing that his party plans to stay in power for the indefinite future, despite the inconvenience of local elections in October 2010 and parliamentary elections in 2012. Note also that Yanukovych fails to mention specific freedoms, such as freedom of assembly and speech, as those have been violated systematically since he came to power. Last, Yanukovych pointedly avoids the term “rule of law,” which is about impartial institutions and procedures, and prefers to speak of “justice,” which all authoritarian leaders, from Russia’s Putin to Belarus’s Lukashenko, claim to be best qualified to dispense. Claim: “National public discussion of the public television concept that I initiated has been completed. In the nearest future a bill paving the way for the principally different mass media – the ones in which policy will be determined by the civil society — will be submitted to the Parliament for consideration.” Reality: Note that Yanukovych states that the policy of public television will be determined by “civil society” — implying, among other things, that the current media, and especially his critics, are not reflective of civil society. You can therefore be certain that his notion of civil society excludes the opposition. More important, you can be equally certain that “civil society” will be represented by some Yanukovych-appointed “civic” body, whose members will all be Yanukovych allies and/or creatures. And you can be absolutely certain that they will transform public television into a mouthpiece of the president. Claim: “I categorically disagree with statements that claim freedom of speech is in decline in Ukraine. As for separate turf wars in the media sphere that have recently been widely discussed, I have to responsibly stress that the government has nothing to do with them. They are the clash of business interests or disputes between the media management and its staff.” Reality: Yanukovych fails to mention that these turf wars involve Ukraine’s largest media mogul, Valery Khoroshkovsky — who just happens to be the head of Ukraine’s intelligence service, which just happens to have begun a process of selective intimidation of academics, journalists, and foreigners. Khoroshkovsky, by the way, was appointed by Yanukovych.
Claim: “Will correction of our Euro-Atlantic integration course and defining our non-aligned status as the main guidance point in the security sphere leave a mark on our relations? … By the way, the term “non-aligned” or “non-alignment” is not the most adequate one since the era of military blocks has long ended together with the Cold War. But at least, it is concise and understandable. I think the principle of non-participation of our country in any military-political alliance most adequately fits the current geopolitical realities.” Reality: Note that Yanukovych eschews the word neutrality. That’s no accident. As he knows, neutrality would imply removing the Russian military presence from the Crimea. Non-alignment, in contrast, can be fudged, and, as we know from history, non-aligned countries could be non-aligned with the West (like Yugoslavia) or with the East (like India). Even so, Yanukovych should know that even non-aligned countries do not permit foreign militaries to have bases on their territories. When they do — and Yanukovych extended the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s basing rights by 25 years — they effectively abandon non-alignment. Claim: “Taking this decision was conducive to defusing tensions that existed both in Ukraine and on the entire European continent in connection with the possibility that Ukraine would join NATO.” Reality: Yanukovych forgets to mention that Ukraine’s joining NATO was on President Kuchma’s and his own agenda before the 2004 Orange Revolution disgraced both of them. The “tensions” about NATO that enveloped Ukraine after 2004 were entirely the handiwork of Yankuovych and his minions in the Party of Regions. In the end, just what did Yanukovych really say to the Atlantic Council? That he’s right, that his critics are wrong, and that he has no intention of leaving office. That may be stability — but only in Wonderland. Alexander J. Motyl is a contributing editor at the Atlantic Council and a professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark. The opinion is reprinted with the author’s permission and originally appeared at http://www.acus.org/new_atlanticist/ yanukovych-wonderland.
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Ukraine’s richest businessman Rinat Akhmetov (L) admires a traveling exhibition from the Louvre on Sept. 12, 2008, in Kyiv. The art was shown in St. Sophia’s Cathedral to mark the end of restoration works of one of its houses by Akhmetov’s foundation, Development of Ukraine.
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What happens when the nation's oligarchs become interested in art? Ukraine gets OligArt, which is what it is being blessed with now. It is a mixed blessing, critics say. For instance, on a sunny September morning, an aspiring artist took a suburban train from her village of Muzychi near Kyiv to board a private jet. The painter’s name is Alevtyna Kakhidze. The owner of the plane is Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest businessman. If this sounds like a modern Cinderella’s journey to a business presentation, this was very close to it. At the airfield, Kakhidze, the 36-year old winner of Malevich art prize in
2008, launched the oligarch’s new program called “i3 [idea, impulse, innovation]� to sponsor modern art in Ukraine. It was Kakhidze’s dream to feel what it’s like owning a plane and creating art on board. Akhmetov didn’t give her the jet, but forked out $10,000 for the flight to feed her muse. The novelty of the project was not in the plane, but in the fact that Akhmetov joined the art patrons’ club in Ukraine. The billionaire built his fortune in steel during the fall of the Soviet Union, snapping up state assets on the cheap during the nation’s crony capitalism days, and has since diversified his portfolio with media, telecommunication and hotel businesses among others. He also owns Donetsk football team Shakhtar.
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Opened in early September, this restaurant still smells of fresh paint. It’s made to resemble a boat with plank decks for the floor and steely sails for a roof. With two of its lounges complete, a slight scent of paint hovers around the other two - still in the works. None of that should bother you though, unless you decide to check out the construction in progress. The restaurant named "Sad," translated as garden, is a convenient two-minute walk from the Presidential Administration on Bankova. The backyard of the classy Union of Writers building has leveraged its rich history to the new food joint. But let’s get to the food first. Greeted at the door by friendly staff, we were first offered a table in the spacious garden, which looked like a homely, well-manicured dacha. But since it was already a chilly September evening, we chose to sit inside. Albeit slim, the menu was all over the place. Sturgeon’s caviar at Hr 1,200 per 40 gram serving was in uncomfortable proximity to Ukrainian borscht for about Hr 50. Asparagus, a rare find in Ukraine’s supermarkets, for Hr 80, was on the same page with buckwheat, Hr 30, the staple food in every pensioner’s home. With some difficulty, we ordered an Italian-themed dinner of four courses. Another surprise came with the wine. If you didn’t want to order a bottle, there was only a choice between one type of red and white. Chilean Cabernet for Hr 60, however, was of proper room temperature and was served quickly with a complimentary bread basket and dill-flavored butter. The indoor lounge where we sat felt like an upscale marquee with slanted ceilings, white shades draping the white walls and naked lamp bulbs hanging down the walls like clusters of grape. Relaxing lounge music, was unobtrusive and felt natural, just like the service itself Caprese salad for Hr 90 was a great combination of sweet cherry-tomatoes and moist mozzarella balls. It was enough to share. It took about 25 minutes for the main course to arrive but the company and general ambiance made the time fly by. Grilled sea bass for Hr 110 was a good value for the quality offered. The 23
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Young rock musicians have no choice but to shine in the limelight together with rock veteran Oleh Skrypka, who is organizing a huge festival “Rock Sich” for the fourth time round. Old-timers in the likes of Vopli Vidopliasova, Tanok na Maidani Kongo, Tartak, Mandry, and Mad Heads XL among others will lend their fame to aspiring artists. The gig will have three stages for traditional rock and one more specifically for the ethnic rock heads. Also check out a collection of vintage cars and watch some pro’s compete in tuning the old horses. Oct. 2-3, Trukhaniv Ostriv, www.rocksich.org. Tickets: Hr 50 – 150
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We’ve had Elton John and Queen give concerts in Ukraine to raise awareness of the dangers of AIDS. This time, we have former U.S. President Bill Clinton coming to talk about the HIV virus that is spreading rapidly in Ukraine. The 42nd U.S. president won’t sing. But Ukrainian celebrities will lend their lyrics to the occasion. Ani Lorak, Jamala, Tina Karol and Iryna Bilyk among others will hit the stage. The concert is organized by the AntiAids Foundation, founded and run by Olena Pinchuk, former President Leonid Kuchma’s daughter. Her husband, billionaire Viktor Pinchuk, is a friend of Clinton, who will also deliver a speech at Pinchuk’s Yalta European Strategy forum starting Sept. 30. Oct. 3, 4:30 p.m. Mykhailivska Ploshcha, www.antiaids.org/en. Free admission.
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Street of games A festival with an odd name “The Street of Games - Games on the Street” will take place at Kyiv’s most artsy and quirky historical slope, St. Andrew’s Descent. Adored by tourists and locals alike, it’s packed with arts and crafts amid nice restaurants, museums and galleries. During the festival, though, you’ll get a double shot of creativity checking out some 21 projects put together by the St. Andrew’s artists and people who care about the slope’s future. Starting with a concert of some hundred musicians on Oct. 1 at 6:30 p.m., the festival will run for three days. Artists will wrap an old house like a candy on Oct. 2 at 12:30 p.m., fly Chinese lanterns in the shape of skyscrapers on Oct. 2 at 6 p.m. and build themselves into a wall for a couple of hours on Oct. 3. at 11 p.m. to name a few. The festival has been organized to raise awareness of St. Andrew’s history and artistic purpose and defy the city authorities’ plans to renovate the street. Oct.1-3, Andriyivskiy Uzviz
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Best music picks Qiev Dance is an annual dance music festival, taking place for the seventh time. Highlights include Fatboy Slim, the famous English DJ and pioneer of electronic dance, German Dash Berlin and Cosmic Gate from Denmark on Oct.2. International Exhibition Center at 9 p.m.,15 Brovarsky Prospekt, tel. 502-3464. http://qievdance.ua (in Russian). Tickets: Hr 200-400.
Joe Cocker is a legendary English singer, known for his bluesy soul voice. During his career, which spans over four decades, he has released 21 studio and four live albums. Cocker sang at Nelson Mandela’s birthday, the fall of the Berlin Wall concert and George H.W. Bush’s inauguration. He was ranked 97th on U.S. magazine Rolling Stone’s 100 greatest singers of all time list in 2008. He will perform on Oct.3 at Palace Ukraina at 7 p.m., 103 Velyka Vasylkivska. Tickets: Hr 100-5000.
Morcheeba is a cocktail of trip hop, R&B, rock and pop locked in one British band. Fans and critics attribute the band’s success to its female lead singer Skye Edwards. When she left Morcheeba after four albums together, the guys had no luck whatsoever. But now Edwards is back and will sing with the lads again their new album “Blood Like Lemonade”, their seventh baby in 15 years. Oct. 4 at 7 p.m.,Zhovtnevyi Palats, 1 Instytutska. Tickets: Hr 250-1000
Limp Bizkit is a hugely successful rock-rap band from the USA. These guys are infamous for their sexist remarks and arrogant attitude, but it never seemed to bother their fans. The band was nominated for Grammy Awards three times and won a few other cool prizes from MTV Music Video and Blockbuster Awards. Limp Bizkit is coming to Kyiv for the second time to perform on Oct. 7 at Kyiv Expo Plaza, 2B Salutna near metro Nyvky. Tickets: Hr 290-450
Gary Moore is the man you need for quality blues-rock. Born in Ireland, Moore started playing a guitar at the age of seven. Despite being left-handed, he learned how to play a standard right handed guitar. His career took off in the ‘60s, introducing the audience to the “white male” blues. He played together with great many artists, including with B.B. King, Ozzy Osborne and George Harrison among others. Oct.7 at 7 p.m. in Palats Ukraina, 103 Velyka Vasylkivska, metro Palats Ukraina, tel. 247-2316. Tickets: Hr 250-1800
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First-class blues Even if you are hard to surprise, we suggest you try bluesman Melvin Taylor in concert. Those who know their music describe Taylor’s guitar style as a cocktail of Jimmi Hendrix and Wes Montgomery, both revolutionary guitarists. Taylor started playing the guitar when he was only six. Growing up in Chicago, the blues capital of the world, he constantly heard his grandma and mother striking the chords. At 15, he started playing in The Transistors band for about a decade. In the beginning of the 1980s, famous American pianist Pinetop Perkins chose young Taylor to play with him on a European tour. Melvin and his band with a straightforward name Melvin Taylor Blues Band will play in Kyiv, Yalta, Sevastopol, Simferopol and Lviv. Oct. 6, 8 p.m., Culture and Education Center Master Klass, 34 Lavrska, www. masterklass.org (in Ukrainian), 594-1063. Tickets: Hr 150
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Movies MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Manhattan Short Film Festival has long outgrown the boundaries of the New York City district. The U.S. directors have not even made it on this year’s list of best shorts. Ten filmmakers from Australia, Ireland, Mexico, the U.K., Croatia, France, Canada, Poland, Germany, and Italy will compete for the viewers’ appreciation. The festival takes place simultaneously in some 200 cities across the world. The rules are simple: viewers vote for the movie they fancied right after the showing. Their votes are later sent to New York for a count. The film getting the most votes wins no hot-shot experts or jury will intervene. The shorts gig was started in 1997 by a guy named Nick Mason who placed a screen on his truck and showed a few short movies on one of the streets in Manhattan. In Ukraine, the event will take place in seven cities: Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizzhya. Not all of the films will be shown in original language, so call the cinema in advance. ASIA FILM FESTIVAL Asian producers go for extremes. Their stories are sharp and controversial, challenging esthetic and philosophical norms. In short, Asians dig into the issues Westerners wouldn’t dare touching. In 1988, movie Red Sorghum by a Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou started what some critics call an Asian wave. The interest in Asian films has been strong ever since. This year Asia Film Festival presents five award-winning works by Japanese and South Korean filmmakers. Their quirky personalities shine through in the films. Take Hong Sangsoo, for example. A Korean director of Hahaha, he is infamous for his love for alcohol. To get to know his actors better, he always invites them for some booze. Unsurprisingly, his films are full of drunken scenes and - to make the show look more convincing, actors get wasted before shooting. Films are shown in original language with Ukrainian subtitles. HAHAHA, 2010, Drama, 115 min. THIRST, 2009, Drama/Horror/Romance, 133 min. MOTHER, 2009, Crime/Drama/Mystery/ Thriller, 128 min. HOTTARAKE NO SHIMA - HARUKA TO MAHO NO KAGAMI, 2009, Animation/ Action/Adventure/ Family, 93 min. AIR DOLL, 2009, Drama/Fantasy, 125 min. DOUBLE INDEMNITY Language: English Crime/Film-Noir/Thriller/USA (1944) Directed by Billy Wilder Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
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Live Music Double indemnity, in insurance language, means a clause which guarantees double compensation in case of death from a hardly probable accident. Keep that in mind as you meet a good-looking but not so clever insurance agent Walter Neff. He fancies Phyllis Dietrichson, who is, of course, married to another man. The foxy lady makes Neff sell her husband an insurance contract with the double indemnity. The murder and an investigation are next in the plot with many dark and odd developments. Based on James M. Cain’s novel, the film is a classic film noir. It was nominated for seven Oscars but did not win any. BENNY’S VIDEO Language: German Drama/Thriller/Austria/Switzerland (1992) Directed by Michael Haneke Starring Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich M?he, Ingrid Stassner Everyone thinks that Benny is a quiet teenager from a nice family. Like many boys of his age, he likes video games and moving images, especially those of horror and porn. Busy working on their own pig farm, his parents think Benny is a good boy. But in the meantime, the youngster is learning how to use his folk’s methods of killing pigs in order to try it out on his girlfriend. “Benny’s Video” is one of Michael Haneke’s first works before classics such as “Forbidden Games,” “Pianist” and “White Ribbon.” His films highlight a postindustrial society challenged by feelings of aggression and guilt. Haneke’s violence is intriguing and paralyzing with its mysterious and irrational nature. The film won the prize of the European Film Academy FIPRESSI in 1993. CHATROOM Language: English Drama/Thriller/Great Britain (2010) Directed by Hideo Nakata Starring Aaron Johnson, Imogen Poots, Matthew Beard, Hannah Murray Teenage friends Eve, Jim, Emily and Moe befriend William – a mysterious guy they met in a chat room on the Internet. Soon they become completely fascinated with his character. But William is playing a game of his own. Helping Jim to get off the antidepressants, he’s really on a mission to bring him down. The Internet in this movie reminds a cheap motel, where every site is like a room full of vice. “Chatroom” is filmed in English by Hideo Nakata, the world-famous Japanese master of horror films and the author of creepy “Ring,” which is considered one of the best in its genre.
ZHOVTEN 26 Konstyantynivska, 205-5951, www. zhovten-kino.kiev.ua Chatroom Oct. 1 at 5:35 p.m. Oct. 2 at 9:40 p.m. Oct. 3 at 8 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Oct. 4-6 at 5:45 p.m. and at 9:30 p.m. The Manhattan Short Film Festival Oct. 1 t 5 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 7:20 p.m., 9:20 p.m., 9:30 p.m. Oct. 2 at 11:30 a.m., 12:55 p.m., 3:20 p.m., 5:35 p.m., 7.20 p.m., 9.30 p.m. Oct. 3 at 1:35 p.m., 5 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:20 p.m. Oct. 4-6 at 1:20 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 7.10 p.m., 9.20 p.m. Asia Film Festival: “Hahaha,” “Thirst,” “Air Doll” Oct. 1 at 00:10 a.m. KYIV CINEMA 19 Chervonoarmiyska, 234-7381, http:// www.kievkino.com.ua Manhattan Short Film festival Oct. 1-6 at 2:50 p.m. and at 7 p.m. BLOCKBUSTER CINEMA 34-V Moskovsky, 498-4832, 498-4833, http://www.multiplex.ua Manhattan Short Film festival Oct. 1-6 at 6:30 p.m. And 8:40 p.m. KOMOD CINEMA 4-A Lunacharskogo, 593-3577, 593-3580, http://www.multiplex.ua Oct. 1-6 at 9:30 p.m. UKRAINA CINEMA Gorodetskogo, 5, 279-6301, 279-6750, http://www.kino-ukraina.com.ua/ Asia Film Festival: Air Doll Oct. 1 at 4:30 p.m., Oct. 2, 6 at 7:10 p.m. Hahaha Oct. 1 at 7:10 p.m. Hottarake No Shima - HarukaToMaho No Kagami Oct. 2-3, 6 at 4:30 p.m., Oct. 5 at 7:10 p.m. Mother Oct. 3 at 7:10 p.m., Oct. 4 at 4:30 p.m. Thirst Oct. 4 at 7:10 p.m., Oct. 5 at 4:30 KINOPANORAMA CINEMA 19, Shota-Rustavelli, 287-30-41, http:// kinopanorama.com.ua Asia Film Festival Oct. 1-6 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. THE MASTER CLASS CINEMA CLUB 34 Ivana Mazepy, 594-10-63, www.masterklass.org/eng/ The Double Indemnity Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. YA GALLERY CINEMA CLUB 55/57 Voloska, 537-3351, www.yagallery. com.ua/akino/ Oct.5 at 7 p.m.
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Singer Oleksandra Luzhetska of “Majestic Duo” jazz band (www.live.kiev. ua) DOCKER’S ABC 15 Khreshchatyk, 278-1717, www.docker. com.ua Concerts traditionally start at 9:30-10 p.m. Oct. 1 Tabula Rasa, Angie Nears , Hr 70 Oct. 2 Mr.O÷ & His Root Boys, Red rocks, Hr 50 Oct. 3 Segodnianochyu, Antitela Oct. 4 Animals session, free admission Oct. 5 Tres Deseos, latino party, Hr 20 Oct. 6 Rockin’ Wolves, Hr 30 Oct. 7 Tex-Mex Company, Hr 30 DOCKER PUB 25 Bohatyrska (metro Heroyiv Dnipra), 5371340, www.docker.com.ua Concerts traditionally start at 9:30-10 p.m. Oct. 1 Lampasy, Ruki v Bruki, Hr 70 Oct. 2 Antitela, More Khuana, Hr 70 Oct. 3 Second Breath, free admission Oct. 4 Mojo Jo Jo, free admission Oct. 5 Chill Out, free admission Oct. 6 The Magma, free admission BOCHKA PYVNA ON KHMELNYTSKOHO 3 B1 Khmelnytskoho, metro Teatralna , 3906106, www.bochka.com.ua Concerts traditionally start at 9-10 p.m. Oct. 2 45EH (indie rock), Hr 50 Oct. 5 Syur Band, Hr 40
Oct. 6 Hip-hop festival, Chill Out, Hr 30 Oct. 7 Vpershe Chuyu (positiv-rock), Hr 40 PIVNA No.1 15 Baseyna, 287-4434 , www.pivna1.com. ua Concerts traditionally start at 9 p.m. Oct. 1 Jocker (pop), free admission Oct. 2 Persona (pop-rock), free admission Oct. 7 Wilde Peoplez (pop), free admission JAZZ DO IT 76A Velyka Vasylkivska, metro Respublikansky stadion, 289-5606. www. jazz-doit.com.ua Concerts traditionally start at 8:30 p.m. Oct. 1 Majestic Duo, free admission Oct. 2 Mariya Zubkova, free admission Oct. 6 Mykhaylo Chuyev, free admission OTHER LIVE MUSIC CLUBS: DRAFT (1/2 Khoryva (Kontraktova Ploshcha metro), 463-7330) KHLIB CLUB (12 Frunze, www.myspace. com/xlibclub ) CHESHIRE CAT (9 Sklyarenko, 428-2717) O’BRIEN’S (17A Mykhaylivska, 279-1584) DAKOTA (14G Heroyiv Stalinhradu, 4687410) U KRUZHKI (12/37 Dekabrystiv, 562-6262)
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After seven years of no high-level visits between the two countries, President Viktor Yanukovych’s trip to China on Sept. 2-5 to meet his counterpart, Hu Jintao, opened a new page in bilateral relations. But after the initial euphoria of renewed bilateral cooperation and investment promises ebbed, the question still remains how far relations will go beyond official declarations. While most of the agreements signed in China were non-binding memoran-
Chinese business etiquette tips 1. FRIENDSHIP: Before doing business, Chinese partners will try to learn more about you and your personality. Chinese prefer to deal not with a company but with some specific person of the company they know and trust. 2. RESPECT: This is key in doing business with the Chinese, especially when a foreign partner is on Chinese territory. 3. ETIQUETTE: Business cards should be written in both languages. When giving the card, hold it with both hands, smiling looking into the eyes of the partner, with a slight nod of the head. When receiving a card, skim through it immediately. 4. MODESTY: Don’t try to demonstrate you are smarter and better than your Chinese partner. 5. PATIENCE: Don’t expect to sign a contract with the Chinese immediately after negotiations. 6. EUPHEMISM: Chinese rarely say “no” directly. 7. REPUTATION: Being respectful, attentive, tactful and unemotional is important during the negotiations. 8. SUPERSTITIOUS: There are some golden rules which should be followed. For example, don’t buy presents and white flowers. The number 4 is considered to be unlucky, but the number 8 brings the luck. 9. BODY LANGUAGE: Be cautious with gestures. 10. RANKING: In Chinese culture, the first person who enters the room is generally the head of the group. Likewise, principal guests are seated directly opposite the principal host or head. Compiled by Elena Shevchenko, Ph.D. student in Chinese studies at National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv.
dums of understanding, at least one contract was inked as a result: a $950 million loan to build an eight-kilometer high-speed train from Kyiv to Boryspil airport, Ukraine’s largest and busiest air travel hub. The project, which also foresees the construction of four stations and the purchase of high-speed trains, is expected to start next year and be finished by the beginning of the Euro 2012 soccer tournament that Ukraine co-hosts with Poland. Other agreements include: construction of the Shchelkino steam-gas plant in Crimea, leasing of a drilling platform for Black Sea shelf exploration and sales of jet engines for China’s L-15 plane, among others. All the agreements signed in China are worth $4 billion, according to the president’s administration. Starting in November, the visa regime between Hong Kong and Ukraine will be canceled. Ukraine state company Ukragroleasing plans to list on the Hong Kong’s exchange, one of the world’s 10 biggest exchanges. “Since the establishment of diplomatic ties between Ukraine and China, we have experienced the best moment in our relations,” said Zhang Weili, counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine.
Chinese President Hu Jintao (C) and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (R) review a guard of honor during Yanukovych’s visit to China in Beijing on Sept. 2. (Andrei Mossienko)
Ambitions are great Trade between the two countries, at $5.7 billion last year, is something that Yanukovych wants to double by 2012 as a sign of greater ambitions. China, which recently surpassed Japan as the world’s second largest economy and which has outpaced Germany as the world’s biggest exporter, is exploring new trade routes for its goods to Europe – and Ukraine’s geographic position makes it well-positioned to cash in. According to parliamentarian Valery Konovaluk, who heads the UkraineChina Business Council, construction of a new logistics center at KyivBoryspil Airport could cut the shipping time for goods from one end of Eurasia to another by almost 30 days. “We want to create the so-called ‘Silk Route’ which would connect two of the biggest economies (in the region) – China and the European Union. Talks are ongoing with the Chinese side,” Konovaluk said. Andriy Goncharuk, acting director of Ukraine-China Association For Cooperation, said that such a logistics
center could “give Ukraine a realistic chance of capitalizing on its geopolitical position.”
Will it happen? With Ukraine’s state coffers running on empty and the Euro 2012 soccer championship approaching, Ukraine is in need of investment. China, brimming with cash, is seen as having more resources and desire than the United States and the European Union – both of whom ask pesky questions about democracy and human rights, issues that don’t seem to interest China’s leaders. In 2009, China’s outbound foreign direct investment was $57 billion and the country plans to double that figure by 2013. Chinese investment seems to be everywhere, including the African continent. Ukraine is in more of a hurry than their Chinese counterparts. “It’s essential for us to see results next year,” Konovaluk said. “Before that, Ukraine has to adopt a new tax code and secure foreign investments.”
Weili of the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine said Chinese investors look for state guarantees for big investments and, like everyone else except the beneficiaries, would like to see less corruption in Ukraine. “But we are glad to see political stability reinstated in Ukraine,” he said Goncharuk of the Ukraine-China Association For Cooperation said that inflows of Chinese investment “will depend on whether officialdom would transform from being a business exploiter to its server.”
Economics dominates politics But there are limits to the relationship. “Ukraine is not a direct sphere of influence of China and doesn’t play an important part in the foreign-policy interests of China,” Goncharuk said. That’s bad news for many in Ukraine who would like to see greater diversification of the economy. A better relationship between Ukraine and China might also help in
other areas. “Just as the EU welcomed a thaw in Russia-Ukraine relations, so they would approve of an economic partnership with China,” said Mykhailo Pashkov, director of international programs at Razumkov Center, a think tank.
What are risks? Perhaps the Ukrainian fear of global competition will deter Chinese investors, as it has so many others. “Big Chinese money could bring unnecessary competition to national producers, competition on the labor market and issues with migration,” said Andrey Bespyatov, research director at Dragon Capital. But others think of the benefits of even a small influx of Chinese. Said Goncharuk: “Chinatowns exist in all major cities of the world and they are safe places for entertainment and cheap food.” Kyiv Post staff writer Kateryna Grushenko can be reached at grushenko@kyivpost.com
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Chinese traders at Barabashovo market in Kharkiv on March 13, 2009. (UNIAN)
Chinese community in Ukraine small, insular – but many here to stay
Newly appointed Chinese Ambassador Zhang Xiyun on Sept. 29, during the celebration of Independence Day at the Chinese Embassy in Kyiv. (Oleksiy Boyko)
BY K AT E RY N A G R U S HEN KO GRUSHENKO@KYIVPOST.COM
Despite high growth rates, industrialization and shared Communist regimes, China and Ukraine “discovered” each other not so long ago. The first entrepreneurs crossed the modern Ukrainian border after the fall of the Soviet Union, carrying bags full of clothes. Setting up their marquees in the street bazaars, they kept a low profile. And it is still hard to find a big Chinese presence. The Chinese Embassy estimates there are about 20,000 of their people living in Ukraine. Chinese omnipotence, including famous Chinatowns in all major world capitals, have bypassed Ukraine – where it’s still hard to find even authentic Chinese restaurants. “The Chinese community is young in Ukraine, with many coming over just 15 years ago with very little money,” said Li Xiang, who imports construction machinery from China. “Few of them received citizenship, and they hardly have any influence on Ukraine’s politics.” Xiang, 41, made Kyiv his home in 1991 after an internship at the Kyiv Polytechnic University. He speaks Russian with harly an accent. He is also a publisher of a Ukraine-China Business biweekly newspaper with a circulation of 3,000 copies that seeks to connect people in both lands. Officially, the bilateral relationship wasn’t much better – until recent hopeful signs emerged. The 2004 democratic Orange Revolution in Ukraine – in which the nation overturned a rigged presidential election that year -- quashed official cooperation, since the authoritarian Chinese takes a dim view of popular uprisings. (See history of Tiananmen Square uprising of 1989.) But with Viktor Yanukovych elected
Chinese omnipotence has bypassed Ukraine, which may not have enough to offer the world's No. 2 economic power president on Feb. 7, China has shown renewed interest – hence, bilateral meetings between the Ukrainian leader and Chinese President Hu Jintao, leading to cooperation agreements on economic and other issues. Li Dongbin, one of the directors at a Chinese telecommunications company in Ukraine, Huawei, welcomes the new momentum. His company grew from five people in 1998 to 300 this year. He now hopes to hire more. On a personal level, Dongbin, who is 38, said he has many Ukrainian friends and even adopted the Ukrainian habit of weekend gateways to grill some shashlyk. His company also keeps up with traditions, culinary and otherwise. The firm hired Chinese
t prepare prreepa pare re them them hem meals. meeals With a cooks to third of the employees at Huawei hailing from China, they often celebrate Chinese holidays in the office. The latest party was on the occasion of the mid-autumn festival, a holiday when the moon, which signifies reunion, is considered the brightest during the year. Many of the 8,000 Chinese students in Ukraine also are close-knit, with many residing together in dormitories. Cheaper university fees and greater racial tolerance lure Chinese students to Ukraine, but so does getting a second academic chance for those who find Ukraine’s universities and opportunities better suited for them. This was the case for Chzhan Litsze, a shy 22-year old female studying to become a Chinese-Russian interpreter at Kyiv National Linguistics University. “My Russian is not good. I want to work in Kyiv for a few years after graduation and then return to China. There are a lot more opportunities for me there,” said Litsze, who almost speaks in a whisper. After four years
Chinese businessmen welcome President Viktor Yanukovych during the business forum on Sept. 3 in Beijing that gathered business elites of China and Ukraine. (Ukrinform)
in Ukraine, she said she didn’t make a single Ukrainian friend. “We are like this,” explained Seoyan Chzhu, Litsze’s friend, who is also majoring in Russian language. “We are introverts, modest and like to stick together.” Chzhu is a bit more outgoing than his friend. To improve his Russian, he took the bold step of moving into a dorm with Ukrainian students. “I need to learn the language well so I can come back to China and work with my family that does business with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan [where Russian language is widely spoken],” he said. But he’s afraid of getting too close.
Asked if he liked Ukrainian women, Chzhu said he worried about a lack of understanding in the families if he married one of them. Publisher Xiang begs to differ. Married to a Ukrainian woman for 13 years, he said patience and knowledge of the Russian language help to strengthen their union. “We have many differences – from cuisine to how we bring up our children and how we spend weekends,” said Xiang, an agnostic in contrast to his wife’s Christian faith. “But when in Rome, do as the Romans do.” Kyiv Post staff writer Kateryna Grushenko can be reached at grushenko@kyivpost.com
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Jamala: jazz singer with a twist Jamala (R) performs during the concert ‘Christmas Meetings’ on Dec.12. (UNIAN)
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Her otherness has many faces, but one stands out: her voice. Wearing a tall turban, singer Jamala burst on to the Ukrainian music scene only a year ago with a look and sound from another planet. Her future, however, can easily be imagined outside Ukraine. And her first album recorded in English shows why. A Ukrainian jazz singer, Susana Jamaladinova, a.k.a. Jamala, has only one song in Russian, but it helped her star rise. Recorded in jazz-pop style, it was balancing on a thin line, appearing in the pop-music festival New Wave in 2009. Grotesque, flamboyant and decidedly strong, Jamala was voted the best. The next item on her wish list is representing Ukraine in the next Eurovision song contest. But for that she has to win the selection rounds in Kyiv. Jet-setting between London, Amsterdam, Istanbul and Moscow to sing at countless concerts, Jamala, 27, briefly touched down in Kyiv recently and met with the Kyiv Post in her studio. She wore a bright-yellow long dress, high heels and a big smile. Thoughtful and reserved, she left a totally different personal impression than her wild and eccentric stage presence. Her family history has probably something to do with that. Born into a Muslim family in Kyrgyzstan, she was taught to be conservative. She doesn’t smoke or drink alcohol. She said her great-grandparents were deported from Crimea during Josef Stalin’s infamous cleansing of the Ukrainian peninsula after World War II. Jamala’s father took the family back to their ancestral land when the singer was only one year old. With her mother playing a piano and
father conducting a choir, Jamala didn’t see any other future for herself but on stage. “During math classes, I used to get bored and would start humming a song, which made my classmates laugh at me,” she recalled. “But my teacher loved my singing and used to give me Cs or Bs in advance, which made the rest of the class go mad.” Vocals of four octaves as strong as Whitney Houston are now a good reason for other singers to be jealous. Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s classics and American jazz legends like Herbie Hancock, James Brown and Billie Holiday were among her musical idols. “Today I prefer singing in English just because it is the true language of American music of the ‘60s,” she said. “I got used to it and enjoy it so much.” In 2001, Jamala followed her older sister and entered an opera faculty at Kyiv Tchaikovsky National Music Academy. The sisters lived in a dormitory and were often rebuked by their neighbors for long hours of opera singing and playing the piano. Opera lyrics from all over the world helped Jamala study foreign languages. Today, besides speaking Ukrainian, Russian, Crimean Tatar, Turkish, Armenian and English, Jamala said she can converse in Italian, French and Spanish. Around this time, college mates started calling her Ja or Jam. She liked the idea and later adopted Jamala, which means beautiful in Arabic, as her stage name. “There is everything in this name, you know, the East, classics, jazz, soul, ethno. Susana sounds too sweet.” Sweet and mainstream are two words missing from Jamala’s vocabulary. While still in the academy, she said she was invited to teach singing in a private school. “The director told me there were only VIP children in that school and I was not allowed
to rebuke them or downgrade them if they did not do their homework. I said OK to all of that. But then he said these kids liked to sing Glukoza [a Russian pop singer with questionable vocals]. And I replied ‘sorry, goodbye. I can’t do what I do not believe in’.” She wanted to teach students only classics. Since then, she has said “no” on many occasions. Winning an international opera contest at 24, she was invited to stay and study in La Scala’s school for promising singers. “But something snapped inside. I heard of the [New Wave contest in] Yurmala and, in one day, without even telling my mom, I packed everything and left.” After winning New Wave, she gave another“no” to her producer and famous choreographer, Olena Kolyadenko. Jamala said Kolyadenko insisted on a pop singer’s image, which would alter her singing style and clothes. She said she also could not stand criticism about her knees, which she bends in a peculiar way when singing. With media naming her Idol of the Year, she could get away with that and carry on with the way she was – bright and different. Jamala’s new video for the song “It’s Me, Jamala,” costing her $110, 000, will appear on music channels in the middle of October. Asked what was next for her, she gave the usual list – Grammy, a big house and a husband. It turns out that Ukraine’s It-girl has pretty normal dreams. It also appears that she – and her fans – will enjoy seeing them come true. To see a schedule of Jamala’s concerts, visit: http://jamalamusic.com The date of the Eurovision song contest selection rounds will be announced later in October. Kyiv Post staff writer Iryna Prymachyk can be reached at Prymachyk@kyivspot. com
Jamala sings in her stylish turban during the media awards ceremony ‘Teletriumph 2008-2009’ on Sept. 4, 2009. (UNIAN)
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If it irons out the kinks, ‘Sad’ a great destination 17 fish’s mild flavor needed no more than a touch of some freshly squeezed lemon juice. It was grilled perfectly (could be steamed if you like) until it could flake easily. The waiter undressed it fancily on a separate little table in front of us and served it with asparagus (Hr 80) on the side. This veggie also appears on the hors d’oeuvre page with a special mustard sauce for Hr 100. The restaurant owners must have taken a special liking to it as it appears on the venue’s logo. My company opted for vitello tonnato, Hr 90, an Italian dish made of braised veal and tuna-flavored sauce.
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World War II, and also as a hospital and a kindergarten. Writers moved in the 1950s and keep musing there to this day. Despite this illustrious heritage, the venue still looks like a teenager with a closet full of cool outfits but no idea how to wear them. On the one hand, airy white draperies and comfy couches call for bohemian coffee breaks in the afternoon and fashionable pre-party in the after-hours. But on the other, its proximity to the president’s workplace and porridges on the menu hint at Soviet-themed kitsch, which Kyiv has already got in abundance. Fixing a phone line and a website could help as well, since neither seems to function properly at this stage. The Kyiv Post hopes the restaurant finds its waters and dives into its bohemian past without any Soviet inkling. Kyiv Post Lifestyle Editor Yuliya Popova can be reached at popova@ kyivpost.com Sad, Bankova 2, tel.: 599-0808, www.bankovagarden.com
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17 in the works, but there are three categories for art institutions, individual artists to conjure up something new and individual professional travel. “We are doing several experiments like funding individual projects, which are hard to predict.� The outcome of the football matches is also difficult to forecast, and yet Ukraine’s richest man regularly shows up at the pitch of his $400 million stadium in Donetsk to see his team play. Nevertheless, Karas said it was important to encourage Akhmetov in his effort to discover new talent and help Ukraine make a name in modern art. Unlike Akhmetov, Ukraine’s other top wealthiest businessman, Viktor Pinchuk, likes to monitor his art personally. He stepped into art philanthropy in 2008, opening arguably the largest center of modern art in Central and Eastern Europe, which also bears his name. He spent $4.6 million on the center in its opening year and has been pumping money into it ever since to bring in big shots such as Damien Hurst, Jeff Koons and the like. “Any kind of competition in the field of philanthropy will have a very positive outcome,� said Dennis Kazvan, spokesman for the Viktor Pinchuk Foundation. To compete though, Akhmetov needs his rival oligarch’s publicity, which is often fed by controversy. Art fans form long lines in front of the Pinchuk gallery daily to see modern oddities in action. There are other businessmen in Ukraine wanting to compete in sponsoring art. In May, Andriy Adamovsky, a real estate owner, opened the contemporary art center M-17. Its minimalist interiors in blinding white seem to copy Pinchuk’s center. Adamovsky has a soft spot for Ukrainian avantgarde of the late 19th-early 20th century. Ukrainian sculpture art has a sponsor in the face of Ihor Voronov. With a stake in an insurance business, he likes to collect and exhibit sculptures. Another businessman, Sergiy Tsyupko, diversified his business in jewelry and banking by opening the Museum of Contemporary Painting Art in
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Kyiv this year. The wife of Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Sergiy Tigipko, Viktoria, organized an international film festival in Odesa this summer. The list goes on. “Each philanthropist goes through the same stages to become a full member of the art community,� said Karas. “He starts with collecting art objects, then sets up a gallery to show what he’s got and then ends up contributing to trends in the cultural process.� Akhmetov, it seems, is still testing the waters. His foundation restored a couple of museums, including the Metropolitan’s House - a part of St Sophia’s National Reserve, which is on the UNESCO’s heritage list. But financing young artists seems a riskier plight than dusting old relics or purchasing new footballers. Painter Kakhidze left Akhmetov’s jet plane empty-handed. There was no painting, no sketch, not even an idea. To the dismay of many, she said: “I felt so calm on the way to the airport and in the sky but now I have to account for this tranquility. What have we done on the plane? We were there. There is no result. I have nothing to show for what actually happened there.� The project managers explained further that it was one of the tasks of modern art to provoke debate. The cost of this debate though was $10,000. Kyiv Post staff writer Olga Gnativ can be reached at gnativ@kyivpost.com
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Business clubs
International Church, Kyiv. English and Spanish Bible study classes. We invite you to weekly services at 10.30 a.m. Saturdays at 13A Miropolskaya str. (m. Chernigovskaya, 2nd stop by a tram Boichenka. Central entrance of two-storied building). Tel.: 38093-757-6848, 542-3194.
www.kyivpost.com Improve your English-speaking skills and have fun. Be prepared to speak English most of the time with native speakers. Conversational club, thematic discussions on Saturdays and Sundays. For more information please contact Vadym. email:vadik_s@ukr.net, call 066-767-4407. Free international conversation club on Fridays at 7 p.m. at English Language Center. Interesting topics for discussion, studying the Bible sometimes. Join us at 4B Kutuzova lane office No. 106 (m. Pecherska) and 76 Irpenska, office No. 31 (m. Akademgorodok. The ELC LTD. Tel. 5811989, 229-28-38. http://english.in.ua Are you a native English speaker? We are glad to invite you to join our English-speaking club. Call 067-6203120 (Olga) or e-mail Olga.Bondar@atlantm.com.ua Free English/German conversation club on Sundays. Druzhbi Narodiv 18/7, office No.3. Everyone is welcome. Tel: 529-75-77.
Word of God Church offers Bible study every Sunday and Wednesday at 7 p.m. Sunday school, nursery for children. For more information call: 517-5193.
People in need
International Baptist Church invites you to our English language worship services (Sundays at 10 a.m.). We are located near Vyrlytsya metro in the downstairs hall of Transfiguration Church, 30B Verbytskoho.http://livingvinechurch.googlepages.com.
The Business-English Center meets on Sundays at 3:00 p.m. for a series of business English skills workshops. For more information, call Alex at 234-08-71, e-mail: e-club@i. com.ua or visit www.etcentre.com.ua.
port network and participate in our extensive social and charitable programs. For more information, see our website www.iwck.org, call or e-mail the IWCK Program Coordinator Yaroslava Neruh at 234-3180,office@iwck.org. Address: 39 Pushkinska, #51, entrance 5, door code 38.
A new gentelmen’s club is always open for well-educated, successful members (free admission) to combine establishing business relationships with unconstrained socializing. Please contact us: vadym_n@ukr.net, kobserg@yahoo.com, (067) 7406820 Sergio. The British Business Club in Ukraine meets every Saturday for business discussion and once every month for networking. Membership in the BBCU is by invitation only and is open to individuals and companies. Please e-mail:administrator@bbcu.com.ua. Free English discussions about Internet marketing. Bold Endeavours, a British marketing and web development company, welcomes senior marketing managers/ directors to an English language discussion group about search engines and Internet marketing at noon on the first Saturday of each month. Call 221-9595, or register online atwww.bold.com.ua.
Public speaking
The Rotaract Club Kyiv meets on Thursdays at 7:00pm at the Ukrainian Educational Center, Prospect Peremohy, #30, apt. 82. For more information, please email: president@rotaract-kyiv.org.ua or visit our websitewww.rotaract-kyiv.org.ua. The Evangelic Presbyterian Church of the Holy Trinity invites you to our worship service, held in Ukrainian and Russian with simultaneous English translation. We meet each Sunday at 50-52 Shevchenka blvd., #402 (4-th floor). Worship begins at 11:00 a.m. Sunday school for adults begins at 9:45 a.m. Pastor Ivan Bespalov: tel. (044) 2870815; (097) 317-9598; e-mail: ivanbespalov@gmail.com. Kyiv International Bible Church, an English language evangelical nondenominational church meeting at 10:30 a.m. on Sundays at 34A Popudrenka, between Darnytsya and Chernihivska metro stops. Contacts: 501-8082,orkievIBC@gmail.com. International Christian Assembly meets at 57 Holosiyivska. Services are held every Sunday: 9 a.m. till 11:30 a.m. For further information contact: Paul, +380503822782,www.icakiev.com
Support groups
Top Talkers Toastmasters Club is happy to invite ambitious and enthusiastic people to learn by doing. Together we will discover inner potential in public speaking and leadership in each of us. We meet every Tuesday at Kraft Foods, 23 Yaroslaviv Val Street at 7 P.M.. Please check our websitewww.toptalkers.org American Chamber of Commerce Toastmasters Club invites English speaking business professionals to advance their presentation and communication skills in a friendly and supportive atmosphere. We meet each Wednesday at 7.30 p.m., at the Microsoft Ukraine office, 75 Zhylyanska St., Floor 4, Business Center Eurasia. To receive further details on the club and its membership, please contact our Club Vice President Membership Anton Stetsenko at 093-609-5161. Kyiv Toastcrackers Club,a part of Toastmasters International, is a worldwide organization that helps men and women learn the arts of speaking, listening and thinking through effective oral communication. We invite new people to benefit from the meetings on Wednesdays, at 7 p.m. at the House of Scientists, 45a Volodymyrska St. For more information seewww.toastcrackers.kiev.ua. Talkers Toastmastersclub invites those interested in improving their public speaking, communication skills, English and creative abilities to join its meetings on Saturday mornings at 11 A.M. Please, check club’s websitearttalkers.wordpress.com, call 8096-565-6229 or E-mail:arttalkers@gmail.com
Religion Christ Church, Kyiv. We are the Anglican/Episcopal Church, serving the English-speaking community in Kyiv. We meet Sundays at 3 p.m. at St Catherine’s German Lutheran Church, 22 Luteranska Street, 5-minute walk from Khreshchatyk. Bible study on Tuesdays at 7.30 p.m. Please call Graham at 38098-779-4457 for more information, www.acny.org.uk/8592. You are invited to the St. Paul’s Evangelical Church. Roger McMurrin is its founding pastor. Music for worship is provided by the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Worship services are held every Sunday at 2:30 pm at the House of Artistic Collectives (Veriovka Choir Hall, 4th floor) at 50/52 Shevchenko Blvd. Call 235-45-03 or 235-6980.
Amnesty International English Speaking Group. Meetings are being held every other Tuesday of the month at 7pm. Become informed, get involved and brush up on your English. Meetings are held at the German Lutheran Church, 22 Lyuteranska. For more details call 38066-2474099 or e-mail at amnestykiev@yahoo.com. Democrats Abroad Ukraine is the official organization of the Democratic Party in Ukraine; connecting Americans with U.S. politics and the Democratic Party; registering, informing, and motivating voters; supporting U.S. candidates, holding events, and fundraising. To join, email info@ democratsabroad.org.ua. The Kyiv Multinational Rotary Club welcomes all Rotarians who are in Kyiv and new potential Rotarians. Our meetings are conducted in English and are held every Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel, Yaroslaviv Val Street 22. For a map and further information please consult our website at:http://kmrclub.org. The Kyiv Lions Club is one of 45,000 Lions Clubs around the world, we raise funds and provide services to help those most in need in our community by supporting charities in our chosen sectors of giving: children, the disabled, and the elderly. We meet on the second Monday of every month in the downstairs bar of the Golden Gate Irish Pub at 7 p.m. For more information contact Paul Niland at 044-531-9193 or paul.niland@primerosfunds.com.
Dnipro Hills Toastmasters Club would like to invite success-oriented people to learn and develop public speaking, presentation and leadership skills. Join us Sundays from 10 to 11 a.m. at Kyiv Business School, 34 L. Ukrainky Street, metro station Pecherska. For detailed information, please, check our websitewww.dniprohills.org.ua European Business Association Toastmasters Clubinvites enthusiastic, goal-oriented people to learn and improve their communication and leadership skills in friendly learning and supportive environment. We meet every Monday at 7.30 p.m. at American Councils at Melnykova, 63. For details please contact Sergiy Kotla, President of the Club, at 09- 948-2885,www.ebatmc.blogspot.com.
The Kyiv Rotary Club meets on Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. at Andreevskiy Prichal restaurant, Bratskaya Street #6. For more information, please contact Natalia Rodovanskaya at +38 067 296 5672 or n_radov@yahoo.com.
English clubs Divorce mediation, commercial mediation, consulting on diagnostics of conflict resolution in organization. Ukrainian Mediation Center, www.ukrmedation.com.ua Please contact Oksana Kondratyuk: 380-66-758-66-44, delo2@i.ua. Individual consultations, psychological support in divorce, family relations, stress management, health issues, relaxation, self-esteem, personal development. Call Elena: 097-294-6781. Alcoholics Anonymous English-speaking group meets Sat. at 10.30 a.m. at 17-D Kostyolna. Meets Sun, Tues, Thurs at various locations. Contacts:aakyiv@ukr.net, 38067-234-8699/38050-331-5028 (Jon). Counselling/advising in relationships, personal growth, body/ mind/spirit matters. Well-known Ukrainian psychologist counsels expats in English and French in the center of Kyiv (Lyuteranska). Seewww.hohel.kiev.ua, or call 38050-595-3686 between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Individual psychological counseling for Russian and English speakers. Family issues, mood disorders, anxiety, depression. Psychological Rehabilitation & Resocialization Center. Call Elena Korneyeva, 38050-573-5810, between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., or e-mail:kornyeyeva@rambler.ru.
Social, sport and health clubs Kiev Hash House Harriers club meets every second Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Lucky Pub, 13 Chervonoarmiyska St. (near Lva Tolstoho metro station). For more details visit websitewww.h3.kiev.ua.
International clubs Welcome to the friendly atmosphere of a Frenchspeaking club. We meet once weekly on Saturdays or Sundays for conversation practice and movie sessions. Please contact Svetlana: 067-907-1456 or email: consonance-s@ukr.net. Student Embassy Project invites students to join intercultural events in Kyiv, Lviv and Ternopil. The initiative is aimed at international students’ integration into Ukrainian society, youth leadership development, intercultural dialogue. To learn more please e-mail us at studentembassy@gmail.com or visithttp://studentembassy.org.ua. The Kyiv Rotary Club meets on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. at Andreyevsky Prichal restaurant, 6 Bratskaya Str. For more information, please contact Nataliya Rodovanskaya at +38067-296-5672 or n_radov@yahoo.com. The International Women’s Club of Kyiv (IWCK) welcomes women from around the world to join our sup-
English-Russian Conversation Club for adults. People of different ages are invited for international meetings. Mini-groups, individual approach. Making new friends. Conversational trainings. E-mail: engrusglobe@i.ua Sprout Christian International School is looking for Native English-speaking volunteers who are enthusiastic and love working with children to help in preschool and English club starting coming September. For more details please call ASAP: Natalie Istomina: +380 67 501-04-06, +380 93 798-98-40 Wave Language School offers free English speaking clubs to the public. Join us on weekends from 4pm – 6pm or 7pm – 9pm on Saturdays and 1pm – 3pm or 4pm – 6pm on Sundays. Please contact us by email if you are interested: info@wavelanguageschool.com. We hope to see you soon – everybody is welcome. Free English practice at conversation club, regular meetings on Fridays at 7 p.m. near Akademgorodok metro. English native speakers. Interesting topics for discussion. Everyone is invited. Join us at 76 Irpenskaya str., off.31. http://english.in.ua/, Tel. +38(044) 229-2838. Free book & DVD exchange. Hundreds of English books and movies. Bring one, take one at the Phoenix Center. Address: metro Pecherska,2 Nemyrovycha-Danchenko, University of Technology and Design – blue 14-storied building, 3rd floor. Hours: Mon-Fri 6 p.m. till 7:30 p.m., Sat noon till 1:30 p.m. Native English speakers. Meet the best and the brightest in Kyiv, well-educated, ambitious, and talented young people 20-30 y.o. Share your English skills and make new friends. Everyone is welcome to visit for free. We also organize picnics, balls and excursions. Five days a week at different locations. Please contact Mark Taylor atjmt260@ hotmail.com for more information. Free speaking English club in Irpen on Saturdays at Lan School. Call +38093-623-3071.
Two-year-old Vanya Chornozub from Kherson Oblast has brain cancer. Since no clinic in Ukraine was able to cure him, he has been transferred to Germany for further treatment. Due to the efforts of many people, two years of therapy brought very good results. Vanya is getting better. But his parents are very short of money to pay for further treatment. His parents appeal to anyone who can help support Vanya’s treatment. Contact person: volunteer Olga Kopylova : +380-67-2341225 Webpage Details for money transfers: PrivatBank Account: 29244825509100 Bank branch location code: 305299 Code: 14360570 Details of payment: card replenishment: 4405885012914724, Chornozub À.À., support for son’s treatment Sofia Sydorchuk, 3,5 years old, needs your help urgently. The girl has recently been diagnosed with myeloblastic leukemia, she is in hospital, the intensive chemotherapy department. Sofia needs to undergo a course of medical treatment that consists of 4 blocks of chemotherapy (one block has already been done). It is difficult to determine the exact cost of the treatment at this stage; our best estimate is around Euro 200,000. After chemotherapy Sofia needs to move to a specialised rehabilitation clinic in Israel or Germany. Sofia’s family hopes for your support, each day they do treatment and tests. You can make a donation via one of the following options: (1) Donations made through a bank transfer Banking details for transfers in Hr: Beneficiary: ÀÒ “Ukreksimbank” Account: 2924902234 Bank of the beneficiary: ÀÒ “Ukreksimbank” MFO code: 322313 EDRPOU code: 00032112 Payment purpose: receipt of funds to the account of Sydorchuk D.V. 0001025541 (2) Donations via web-money Z351457992891 R639870369876 E252216931289 U585571766822 (For instructions on transferring the money via web-money please refer to: http://webmoney.ua/withdrawfunds/ transfer/#) PLEASE HELP Nastya Kotova, 15 years old, who suffers from acute myeloid leukemia. Nastya already had 3 blocks of chemotherapy in Okhmatdet clinic. She desperately needs bone marrow transplantation from a non-relative. The Israel clinic sent invoices for USD 156,000. Nastya also constantly needs ongoing therapy in Ukraine. HELP PLEASE Hryvnya account: Privatbank, account number 29244825509100 MFO:305299, OKPO:14360570 Card account: 4405885014676768, Kotova Olena Vasilievna (id 2608400766). USD account: Beneficiary**: Acc.#0144 KOTOVA OLENA VASYLIVNA/262032029308 (name of the client) Bank of Beneficiary: open Joint Stock Company RAIFFEISEN BANK AVAL; Kyiv,Ukraine. S.W.I.F.T. code: AVALUAUKDNI Correspondent bank: Corr.acc. #2000193004429 Wachovia Bank,New york,NY S.W.I.F.T. code: PNBPUS3NNYC Yandex koshelek: 41001136440702 The Down Syndrome Ukrainian Organisation gathers parents who have trisomic children, in order to help them raise their kids, and aims at changing the public perception of the disease. The Organisation is now opening a Center for Early Development of the Children with Down Syndrome in Kyiv. The association has recently launched the operation “Serebrenaya Monetka” (Silver Coin) in order to raise funds for the center. Transparent boxes have been displayed in the 100 branches of UkrSibBank (the subsidiary of the French BNP Paribas group) in Kyiv, in order to collect the small coins that everybody has in their pockets. All donations are welcome. Details can be found at the:http://www.downsyndrome.com.ua/; http://www. ukrsibbank.com. The operation will end on March 19th. All the proceeds of the operation will be used to buy equipments and furniture for this Center.” Hryvnya account: BENEFICIARY: Vseukrainskaia Bkagodiyna Organizatsia Down Syndrome ACCOUNT: 26007265663400 MFO 351005 UKRSIBBANK
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2 The Chinese circus came to Kyiv on Sept. 24 with its colorful plate spinners, bicycle stunts and exotic animals. Artists from China were invited by the Kobzov circus. The show features both Chinese and Ukrainians performers. To the sound of traditional Chinese music, the show opened with plate-spinning (3) and poi – a special performance when balls suspended from a rope are swung in various patterns (1). A young girl juggled a spool on a string tied between two sticks (7). Chinese acrobats won loud applause for their performance with tables (4), umbrellas and jugs. Both Ukrainian and Chinese air gymnasts flew above the arena performing magnificent stunts (8, 9). Children loved a show with trained monkeys, dogs and a bear (5, 6). The Chinese circus will be in the capital until Dec. 12 at the Concert Hall Kobzov, 7A Dehtyarivska. More information can be found online (in Russian) at www.circus-kobzov. com.ua or by calling 455-8585. – Svitlana Tuchynska – Photos by Yaroslav Debelyi
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Golf center’s owner, Sergiy Kiroyants (R) showing guests around
Guests watching a golf show Ukraine’s businessmen left their phones and laptops at home to meet each other in person while playing golf on Sept. 25 at Kyiv Golf Club. Golfers from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Russia's Sberbank, and Ukraine's National Bank were spotted among other high-flying guests. U.S. professional golfer and entertainer Josh Olson gave a master-class. Olson, who performs around the world, gave a demonstration on long driving among other tricks with the ball. Before hitting the field, guests practiced at the driving range. Later, the white-collar crowd was offered wine and a gallery of luxury items to browse. (Natalia Kravchuk)
Sergiy Kruglyk, head of external trade relations at the National Bank of Ukraine (C) and U.S. golf professional Josh Olson (R)
Gallery of children’s dreams Anna Vicentini (L) and Dina Bekova (C) from International Women’s Club of Kyiv and David Sinclair from Hewlett Packard
A photograph by Polina Havdyuk, 18, raised by a single mother
Guests bid on children’s photographs
International law firm Clifford Chance and charity organization Narodna Dopomoga presented a special photo gallery on Sept.23. The exhibition was put together by 60 orphans and children from underprivileged families during the summer. Participants were asked to photograph their life and what they wish it to become. A silent auction was held to gather funds to make dreams come true for those photographed. Vasyl Pylypyuk’s gallery hosted the closure of the charity project “Fotogolos: Moya Mriya.” (Oleksiy Boyko)
If you want Kyiv Post Paparazzi to cover your event, please send details or invitations to news@kyivpost.com or contact photo editor Yaroslav Debelyi at 234-6500 Ukraine’s Rugby Federation and John Marsh Memorial Committee held a press conference to announce the International Junior Rugby Tournament. The games will take place in Kyiv on Oct. 2-3 at Spartak stadium. Boys of 12 and 13 years of age from Ukraine, Russia and Moldova will compete in the tournament. Students and sports lovers are invited to watch the games. In its seventh year already, the event aims to popularize the sport in Ukraine and raise a professional team for the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil. Started by British rugby enthusiast John Marsh, the tournament was named after him when Marsh passed away in 2004. (Oleksiy Boyko)
Kicking off junior rugby
The tournament’s sports director, Pavlo Guguyev
Anthony Nichole from John Marsh Memorial Tournament (L), Georgy Dzhangyrian, President of Ukraine’s Rugby Federation (C) and Dmytro Samoilenko, rugby referee
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IS WORKING WITH PAKISTAN’S EMBASSY TO HELP IN THE FLOOD RELIEF EFFORT total of the country’s of its history. 1/5 ity yed ro lam st ca de l , ra rs tu lion of dolla e worst na d crops worth bil e experiencing th ye ar ro le st op de pe s ha its r d Pakistan an ed. Flood wate has been inundat geographical area try’s economy. un co ralyzed the pa d an e ur ct ru st infra eater than caused by it is gr of Pakistan ns, devastations tio or d here at – Prime Minister op An pr l s. ta lem en r of monum security prob te d as an dis ic n om ria on ita ec an a hum kind. And today, is creating “So we know face wship with human iti and Tsunami: it llo Ha fe of e rs an te m as hu e dis or of is challenge.” forge a m combined effects w, we can meet th eak of a desire to sp no n er te th of ge to we , e m ns co the United Natio action... And if we at aspiration with we must match th issue” and calls Clinton an “international is e ph ro st ta ca – Hillary Rodham ” … “this hing I have seen worse than anyt is r ented floods”. te ed as ec dis pr his un “T ed response to nt de ce re np “u upon for an neral – UN Secretary Ge
PLEASE HELP THE 20 MILLION PEOPLE AFFECTED IN THIS TERRIBLE NATURAL DISASTER
Pakistan has been struck by the gravest tragedy in its history. Recent floods caused by the heaviest monsoon have left behind a huge trail of destruction and devastation in the entire length and breadth of the country. It has led to tragic loss of numerous human lives, submerging of a large number of towns and villages in water; besides widespread loss of livestock, standing crops and destruction / damage of communication infrastructure and irrigation system. This natural disaster has been recognized as the worst ever in the contemporary/recorded history of mankind. Estimates of international agencies reveal that as many as 20 million people have been affected by the floods. 8 million remain reliant on the aid handouts and are at the risk of life-threatening diseases. 6.5 million acres of crops have been wasted away, 72,00000 households are damaged. 7,000 schools, 4,000 health centers and 1,000 bridges have been destroyed. The Magnitude and scale of the calamity has simply been exceptional. In quantified terms it has far surpassed the extent of damage caused by Tsunami or any other major earthquake anywhere in the world. Rehabilitation of the millions of people and reconstruction of communication infrastructure remains the most daunting challenge both in the long and short term and is beyond the capacity of any government or nation. It naturally involves massive funding. UN has estimated that a sum of US$ 2.1 billion is required to cope up with these terrible crises and has appealed the international community for the provision of the same. It is in this backdrop that we earnestly appeal to the Ukrainian government and non-government organizations, philanthropists, leading businessmen, business houses, enterprises, NGOs and all community members to come forward and generously donate for the victims of the flood. Initially the donations would be utilized for the provision of food supplies, safe drinking water, medicines, temporary shelters, emergency equipment etc; subsequently for the rehabilitation and reconstruction. On the instructions of the government of Pakistan, the Embassy of Pakistan in Kyiv has opened an account for the receipt of donations. We are sure that you will make generous contributions to alleviate the suffering of thepeople in distress in Pakistan.
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AREA SALES MANAGER ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT DOING BUSINESS? WOULD YOU LIKE TO REPRESENT THE MARKET LEADER IN THE INDUSTRY? We are strengthening our presence on the Ukrainian market and are now looking for a driven salesperson with experience from the contracting industry. Your mission is to independently develop our sales in Ukraine. The number of travel days is estimated to approximately 150 days / year. You are a keen and structured sales person with a good general technical understanding. You have an entrepreneurial spirit and value long-term customer relationships. The service involves multiple client contacts which makes your personal qualities especially important. Our corporate language is English. We offer you an independent job with great earnings potential in a successful company with industry-leading products. You are welcome to apply with English resume to Ukraine@swedishtrade.se Please submit your resume no later than: October 15th.
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University degree in the social/behavioural sciences, (Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Health Education) with emphasis on strategic communication planning for behaviour development, social mobilization, participatory communication, and research.
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-INIMUM TWO YEARS OF RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE IN THE planning and management of social development programmes with practical experience in the adaptation and application of communication planning processes to specific programmes.
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November 6, 2010 The Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (33 Velyka Zhytomyrska Street)
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC) promotes private sector development in emerging markets by investing in the private sector and providing advisory services in partnership with donors. In response to the financial crisis, IFC is implementing a Corporate Sector Crisis Response Project in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. The Project is aimed at providing resources and practical training on crisis management to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In this respect IFC seeks a qualified candidate to join its regional team as
ECA Crisis Response Project Coordinator To be responsible for the implementation of the Project in the ECA region. S/he will work with external project partners (consultancies, law firms and local business associations) to develop and deliver 60 practical training seminars focused on crisis management, cost reduction, risk management, restructuring and bankruptcy, for SMEs in ECA countries. Requirements & Qualifications: • Relevant Professional Degree (ex. business, accounting, law, etc.); • General familiarity with corporate governance, risk/crisis management, including accounting and audit, legal issues, management consulting; • Strong project management and implementation skills; • Experience in emerging markets, particularly in Eastern Europe; • Experience in dealing with organizing and overseeing training programs for private sector companies an asset; • Proficiency in English, Russian; • Energetic, self-starter; willingness and ability to travel across the ECA region.
For corporate information please visit www.ifc.org To apply please send CV and cover letter to UkrHR@ifc.org by October 12, 2010
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32 Paparazzi Participants walk a symbolic pink mile in the center of Kyiv
October 1, 2010
United against breast cancer
Designer Diana Dorozhkina About 4,000 people gathered in the center of Kyiv to raise awareness of breast cancer among women on Sept. 25. Waving pink banners and balloons, they walked a symbolic pink mile in support of the cause. Special booths were set up for all women who wanted to do a health check right there and then. Singers Alena Vinnytska, Alyosha, Mika Newton, and Oleksandr Ponomaryov among others supported the gathering with a concert. Celebrities auctioned off some of their belongings to raise funds for the project, which aims to teach Ukrainian X-ray specialists how to effectively diagnose breast cancer. (Courtesy)
Olena Starkova, general director of AVON Ukraine
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