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The proliferation of tax-minimization schemes, some of dubious legality, is costing the Ukrainian state budget billions of dollars each year in lost revenue. Yet officials show no inclination to crack down on these offshore havens. Why? B Y V LA D LAV R RO OV LAVROV@KYIVPOST.COM LAVROV@KYIVPOST.CO
Last September, Septem two dozen people file filed into an office Palladi in Palladium City, a new a glass and steel tower d near downtown Kyiv. Dress in business Dressed attire attire, they looked like any group of accou accountants or executives aas they entered the eigh eighth floor office of what seemed to be one of th the few occupied suites in the building. They wer were greet- Æ10
Tourists sunbathe near the Mediterranean Sea in Larnaca, on the southern coast of Cyprus. The island nation is a top destination for money transfers from Ukraine. (AFP)
President taps Pshonka, a loyalist with questionable record, as top prosecutor
Yanukovych may face international scorn over undemocratic elections
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The Oct. 31 local elections in Ukraine – seen by some observers as undemocratic if not altogether riddled with fraud – may leave an international stain on Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s democratic credentials, which were always suspect in the first place. For Ukrainians, the upshot domestically is that they may not get any
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chance to change their political leadership until the next parliamentary election, likely in 2012. And that chance, when it comes, is far less than democratic: citizens are allowed to vote only for or against political parties, who choose their slate of candidates. Not even peaceful protests are shaping up as a good option to register dissent, with authorities increasingly cracking down on such gatherings. Internationally, if the West – includ-
ing the European Union, United States and Canada – continues to insist that Ukraine lives up to democratic principles, then integration efforts appear to be in jeopardy. Free trade agreements that could lift Ukraine out of poverty and make its economy more competitive are not likely to be reached with the EU anytime soon. Nor do relaxed visa requirements appear to be in the offing, further intensifying the nation’s inward focus. Æ15
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So much for an independent law enforcement system. A 30-year veteran prosecutor, the 56-year old Viktor Pshonka has a reputation for doing what he is told, and getting it done. During the past 15 years, many of the orders Pshonka has executed appear to have come from Yanukovych. He has climbed the ladder from the regional ranks to become Ukraine’s top prosecutor by closely sticking to Yanukovych all the way from Donetsk, where the president served as oblast governor Æ14
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High level bilateral talks between Ukraine and the European Union will take place in Brussels on Nov. 22, but are not expected to yield Ukraine anything except for dashed hopes and missed goals. Neither free trade nor visa-free travel agreements are expected to be reached in the near-term. Despite frequent public statements by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukoyvch and other high level officials that shortterm visa free travel will be accorded to Ukrainians by the 27-member political union, the 14th annual EU-Ukraine Summit may, actually, be unpleasant for the Ukrainian side. Many believe Ukraine hasn’t lived up to its promise of integration with EU institutions and failed on many of its commitments to bring its legislation in line with EU standards and norms. The EU conducted a mission in Ukraine this week, led by Hugues Mingarelli, to hold talks on outlining a
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A girl on her father’s shoulders waves flags of the European Union and Ukraine during Europe Day celebrations in Kyiv on May 15. (Yaroslav Debelyi)
potential association agreement including free trade with the EU. Such agreements are typically concluded with non-EU countries in exchange for commitments to political, economic, trade and human rights reform in a country.
Parliament reconvenes to tackle taxes, budget Parliament reconvenes next week and will consider the nation’s first tax code and a bill to give the public more access to government-hoarded information. A tax code criticized for not casting a wide enough net to bring in badly needed revenue and for inequitably targeting small- and medium-sized enterprises will be considered on Nov. 16. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said on Nov. 5 that the tax code should be adopted in its second reading by Nov. 19, after which parliament is expected to consider the 2011 budget, starting on Dec. 1. Nationwide protests erupted after Oct. 7 when the tax code passed a first parliamentary reading. Azarov dismissed the anti-tax code protests as an orchestration by those who want to remain in the “shadow economy,” where as much as half of the nation’s economic activity takes place. “There’s a lot of speculation hover-
ing around the tax code. This isn’t at all surprising because tax reform chokes the oxygen out of the ‘shadow economy’, and criminal businesses in providing VAT refunds,” Azarov said. A European-endorsed “right to know” bill is on parliament’s agenda for Nov. 18. The bill, authored by Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko lawmaker Andriy Shevchenko, has been scuttled twice by the pro-presidential Party of Regions. It is supposed introduce the concept of public ownership over government information. It’s also supposed to give the public and journalists access to city development plans and budgets, expedite the time when information is supposed to be provided, from 30 to 5 days, and introduce a three-step justification process for classifying information, among other improvements. The public access to information bill was supposed to be considered on Nov. 2, but was removed from the docket. Ukraine remains one of the
A diplomat in the EU delegation to Ukraine said an association agreement is out of the question on Nov. 22. The source said that five EU member states, including powerhouses Germany and France were against liberalizing
the visa regime for Ukrainians under the action plan. Millions of Ukrainians are living and working abroad illegally in EU countries, and nations believe visa-free travel will encourage more to do so. On Nov. 8, Yanukovych expressed confidence a deal will be reached to allow Ukrainian nationals to travel to EU countries for up to 90 days within a 180-day period. Valeriy Chaliy, director of the Razumkov Center, a reputable Kyiv think tank, said: “If this doesn’t happen then their meeting will be a complete failure.” Ukraine will arrive in Brussels having passed legislation to achieve democratic standards in access to public information. The meeting also takes place in the aftermath of an Oct. 31 nationwide election to municipal seats and local councils that was roundly criticized as not meeting democratic standards.
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A man wearing a mask of Ukraine’s Prime Minister Mykola Azarov (C) holds a scythe to symbolize a death during an Oct. 25 rally by small businesses in Lviv, the largest city in western Ukraine. (PHL)
few European states with weak public information laws. On Oct. 5, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe called on the Ukrainian parliament to adopt the law of access to public information. The OSCE’s representative on freedom of the media, Dunja Mjatovic, urged members of parliament and the Ukrainian government to enact the law during her visit to Kyiv on Oct. 13. “The adoption of the access to pub-
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lic information law would constitute a major cornerstone, in guaranteeing fundamental rights and freedoms, specifically the right to freedom of expression. Ukraine should join the vast majority of European states who fully recognize the importance of this right,” stated Agnes Callamard, executive director of ARTICLE 19, an international freedom of expression nonprofit organization based in the United Kingdom.
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EBA Panel discussion with Roman Mykytyuk, Head of Customs of Lviv oblast Western Ukrainian Branch of European Business Association organized a meeting with the newly appointed Head of Lviv Customs, Mr. Roman Mykytiuk. EBA member companies of Western Ukrainian Branch had the opportunity to ask Mr. Mykytiuk questions concerning problems that arise during export-import operations of goods and services in person on November 2nd, 2010. Among the numerous questions raised at the meeting, specifically were discussed issues on: customs valuation, engineering, rail transportation of bulk cargoes, open areas, the availability of temporary storage, organization and implementation of past agreements on quick passage of the Polish-Ukrainian border, the threat of liquidation of tolling operations and other relevant agenda.
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Pure contempt Nine months into his presidency, Viktor Yanukovych clearly has no intention of rooting out corruption, solving the nation’s most serious crimes, establishing the rule of law or creating an independent criminal justice system. The evidence supporting this conclusion is broad and deep. But one needs to look no further than the appointment this month of Party of Regions crony Viktor Pshonka as the nation’s 10th general prosecutor. Pshonka served as prosecutor in Donetsk until 2003. He has been at the center of numerous botched, stifled or covered-up investigations of high-profile crimes. One of the most troubling is the still-unresolved 2001 clubbing death of investigative journalist Ihor Oleksandrov, who exposed corruption among law enforcement in Donetsk when Pshonka was the top prosecutor there. After pressure mounted, prosecutors initially tried to blame the death on a vagrant. Pshonka makes no pretense of being an independent prosecutor. In a Nov. 6 interview with the pro-presidential Inter TV channel, Pshonka described his role this way: “As prosecutor general, I am a member of the team tasked with carrying out all the decisions made by the president.” One of those decisions appears to be the pursuit of criminal charges, announced Nov. 9, against ex-Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, Ukraine’s former top cop, allegedly involving Hr 40,000 ($5,000). Considering the billions of dollars routinely pilfered from the state budget, not to mention the scores of unsolved murders, charging Lutsenko is a strange way to begin an “anti-corruption” campaign. But, of course, the only anti-corruption campaign under way is a highly selective one – mainly aimed at former top officials of the previous government led by ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, several of whom have been held in jail for months without due process or formal charges. Anyone considered not loyal to the Yanukovych administration may also find themselves targets for investigation. Given this administration’s primitive clan mindset, the list of targets could be long and include independent journalists, students, religious leaders, non-governmental organizations and anyone else who doesn’t pledge allegiance to Yanukovych’s Party of Regions. We finally found something to agree about with Security Service of Ukraine chief Valeriy Khoroshkovsky, owner of Inter TV channel. In Brussels on a “charm offensive” with European parliamentarians, Khoroshkovsky told Martin Banks in an article with The Parliament (http://www.theparliament.com/latest-news/ article/newsarticle/ukraine-security-chief-determined-to-root-out-corruption/) that corruption “at all levels” was the “biggest impediment or obstacle” to the reform process in Ukraine. We agree. Unfortunately, Yanukovych, Pshonka and Khoroshkovsky are part of the problem, not the solution. If the new general prosecutor wants to start an anti-corruption campaign, he should charge ex-President Leonid Kuchma and current parliament speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn for the Sept. 16, 2000, murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze. Despite their denials, ample evidence exists to try both of them for ordering the murder and complicity in the cover-up. We hope the European Union is paying close attention to these ongoing travesties of justice.
Their own words No amount of PR support or spin doctoring can fully cover up what people really think, especially those who hold powerful or influential positions. From the top down, some of Ukraine’s elite routinely reveal their true thoughts in unguarded moments – and they aren’t pretty. “I will pull off their heads if they don’t deal with the sewage system, water and gas supplies,” President Viktor Yanukovych said on Nov. 11 in Kalush of IvanoFrankivsk Oblast, referring to recalcitrant opposition mayors. His choice of words is more befitting that of a twice-imprisoned offender, which he is, rather than the leader of a democratic nation. No wonder many people fear the return of a 1990s mafia-like nation that existed under authoritarian ex-President Leonid Kuchma. Only last week, in response to allegations that police are conducting a racist and illegal crackdown on merchants at Troyeshchyna market, Kyiv police spokesman Volodymyr Dmytrenko said: “Even if they are citizens of Ukraine, what positive contribution are they making to this country? None. They stand on their market, and sell goods of bad quality.” Such statements basically confirm the accusations. Also last week, 12 journalism students at Taras Shevchenko National University were betrayed by their own instructor for having the bravery to create a calendar posing tough questions to Yanukovych. For instance, one asked: “When will authorities be held accountable for taking bribes?” “These kids are only 18 to 19 years old; they are too young and too inexperienced to ask such questions,” scoffed Volodymyr Shevchenko, deputy rector of the Journalism Institute. It’s clear that, from the president to police to the universities, the nation's leaders are failing Ukrainians, young and old.
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NEWS ITEM: President Viktor Yanukovych appointed his longtime friend Viktor Pshonka as the nation’s new general prosecutor on Nov. 4. In a televised address to the nation on the pro-presidential Inter TV channel, partly owned by the Security Service of Ukraine chief, Valery Khoroshkovsky, Pshonka identified himself as a member of the president’s team rather than as an independent prosecutor. He called Yanukovych “an objective man” who thinks “everyone is equal before law.” The next day, however, authorities announced a criminal case against former Interior Minister Yuriy Lustenko, a political opponent, accusing him of embezzling Hr 40,000 ($5,000) from the state budget. Critics ridiculed the charges as an ominous sign that Pshonka was given the powerful post mainly to harass political opponents.
Charm offensive will not play well abroad for these ‘Sovki’ TA RA S K UZ IO TKUZIO@ROGERS.COM
The Viktor Yanukovych administration is actively integrating domestic and foreign PR, as well as lobbying, a new development for Ukraine that should be welcomed – up to a point. It is indeed ironic that the Orange Revolution forces of ex-President Viktor Yushchenko and ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko could never accomplish such a strategy because of infighting that undermined the unity of democratic forces. Yushchenko still believes his main mistake was working with Tymoshenko. In the West, only the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT) sought to use PR and lobbying to advance her case in Washington, the United Kingdom and Brussels. Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine was nowhere to be seen while the ex-president restricted himself to occasional op-eds in Western newspapers and the Kyiv Post. This though, was not a state strategy and cannot be compared to what is currently being undertaken by the Yanukovych administration. The Oct. 31 local elections gave the Yanukovych administration the opportunity to crank up their PR-lobbying strategy. Prior to the elections, the Party of Regions managed to prevent the European Parliament from adopting a highly critical resolution by signing a cooperation agreement with the Socialist group in the European Parliament. Following the elections, and the international opprobrium that Ukraine received, a six-point charm offensive was launched as damage control. The first were three obviously coordinated op-eds in the
Æ No matter how much Yanukovych spends on PR and lobbying, he will be judged by his actions – and they’re not good Kyiv Post, downplaying election fraud by Western expert Adrian Karatnycky, Party of Regions parliamentarian Leonid Kozhara and BYuT defector Oleksandr Feldman, also a member of the Verkhovna Rada. The second was presidential administration deputy head Hanna Herman’s attempt to reach out to nongovernmental organizations in the third of her “letters in defense of democracy”in the influential weekly Zerkalo Nedeli newspaper. This was obviously an attempt to co-opt the OPORA election monitors, who have an excellent international reputation. The third was the formation of a presidential commission on ‘The Strengthening of Democracy and Affirmation of the Rule of Law’ headed by Serhiy Holovatiy, who defected from Our Ukraine in 2007 and entered parliament that year in the Party of Regions. Only two months after coming to power, Yanukovych abolished a presidential body with a similar name, the National Commission for the Strengthening of Democracy and Affirmation of the Rule of Law. The Æ12
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EU should take firm stand against Yanukovych clan
Residents in a small Kyiv Oblast village, Plesetske, gathered on Nov. 10 to protest what they view as a rigged Oct. 31 election of lawmakers to their city council. Similar protests have erupted across Ukraine since the disputed vote was held. (UNIAN)
still not declared? Does this not suggest that ballot boxes continue to be stuffed, protocols are being rewritten, and the results of the elections changed with the assistance of judges and law enforcement structures? The authorities did not ask for international experts’ advice earlier this year when deciding to postpone the elections by six months, nor when it prevented the opposition running in blocs of parties. They knew perfectly well that changing the election law in the run-up to the elections was contrary to the Council of Europe Venice Commission recommendations. They knew that fully controllable election commissions are plain undemocratic. Many of these commissions went on to refuse to register opposition candidates and approved the bogus opposition candidates put on the ballot. Our party, Batkivshchyna – the largest opposition party in the country – was denied its candidates on ballot papers in 3,368 polling stations. This repression went in parallel with the intimidation of opposition, media and civil activists in the run-up to and during the elections. On Election Day, the authorities resorted to old, well-tested tricks of unstamped ballots and presigned protocols. Hundreds of thousands of additional ballots were printed illegally and observers were prevented from entering polling stations and territorial election commission premises to monitor the violations. The elections turned into a wellorchestrated scheme to appoint, not elect, people to key posts in local government in Ukraine.
The barrage of international criticism over the elections needs to be fortified by a relevant resolution from Brussels. But such a resolution on Ukraine has been delayed twice by the Socialists in the European Parliament. Bizarrely, Yanukovych’s Party of Regions – the party of oligarchs and big businessmen – signed a cooperation agreement with the Socialists on Oct. 14, which is being used to cynical effect. Elmar Brok, a member of the European Parliament with the European People’s Party, and fellow parliamentarian and party member Michael Gahler, were clearly outraged by the Socialist Group’s move. They accused them of “dragging their feet” and said “the issue of the nature and conduct of elections is far too serious to play partypolitical games.” For so long, millions of Ukrainians have looked to the EU to uphold democratic values. Brussels should be clear that Ukrainian democracy, Yanukovych-style – as demonstrated by these recent elections – is unacceptable. Finally, it is important for the Ukrainian government to understand that Ukraine’s European integration credentials are directly linked to the quality of democracy and respect for European values inside the country. Recognizing the challenge will be a positive sign in itself. Hryhoriy Nemyria is foreign policy adviser to opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s former prime minister, and is the former deputy prime minister of Ukraine responsible for European integration.
Khoroshkovsky woos big shots at luxury dinner in Brussels AN D R E W R E T T MA N
BRUSSELS, Belgium – The head of the Ukrainian secret service, Valeriy Khoroshkovsky, hosted a luxurious dinner for members of the European Parliament in Brussels as the country’s new administration continued its campaign to legitimize itself in the eyes of the EU. At a time of national austerity under an International Monetary Fund-imposed bailout, Kyiv spared no
VOX populili WITH NATALIYA SOLOVONYUK
What do you think about the Ukrainian tax system and the proposed new tax code? Is it fair? Mykhailo Lyvandovsky, journalist “This code is the most realistic one, but it is not perfect. In the process of debate, all suggestions and comments were taken into account. Entrepreneurs who use the single tax system are perfectly capable of paying Hr 600. It used to be Hr 200, and I think it was unpatriotic. The tax code is a bible for businessmen. It’s a two-way partnership. It’s a tool for bringing taxes out of the shadows.”
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President Viktor Yanukovych’s commentary on Ukraine’s Oct. 31 local elections could have come from the pages of a Lewis Carroll novel. “Overall, it is good that there were no systematic violations. This is emphasized by international observers and the police,” he said. But his summation was at odds with the international community, which condemned them as rigged and unfair. Perhaps it was asking too much to expect a different reaction from a leader who has demonstrated duplicity throughout the nine months of his presidency – pledging allegiance to democratic values when meeting Western dignitaries, while ruling with an autocratic hand at home, oppressing the media, the opposition and civil society. This duplicity manifested itself again when the Ukrainian leadership brushed away accusations of large-scale electoral fraud and issued a statement about plans “to improve the national election legislation… to make sure the drawbacks of the current elections are not repeated.” The statement says that a special working group which would involve American and European experts “will bring Ukrainian legislation in compliance with recognized democratic standards.” The Foreign Ministry says that, by May, a number of amendments will be put down for public consideration. So why do the authorities intend to amend a law which, in their own words, helped to produce free and fair elections? Obviously, the statement is a facade – a sop to soothe strong criticism of the elections from the West. “Ukraine’s Oct. 31 local elections did not meet standards for openness and fairness set by the presidential elections earlier this year,” the U.S. State Department said. It was sentiment echoed by later pronouncements by European organizations. The office of Catherine Ashton, the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, issued a statement that was critical of “the electoral framework and the administration of the elections.” It said that they “undermine public confidence in the electoral process and in the further consolidation of democracy in Ukraine.” In response, the incumbent leadership glossed over her concerns, alleging that the EU provided “quite positive feedback.” It now pretends to listen to how things could be improved. These latest elections indicate a U-turn in our country’s recent political history. They are a complete departure from the democratic principles which took root in Ukrainian politics after the 2004 Orange Revolution, which allowed Ukraine to hold a string of truly free and transparent elections. How credible is President Viktor Yanukovych’s intention to revise the election law if today, 10 days after the elections took place, their official results are
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expense on its public relations effort by inviting around 15 euro-deputies to dinner on Nov. 9 in the wood-panelled Maison du Cygne restaurant, one of the most expensive restaurnts in Brussels. Appetizers start at 25 euros, while roast duckling costs 78 euros at the posh place. “Mr. Koroshkovsky, who will be in Brussels for meetings at NATO, will be pleased to have an exchange of views with guests on reforms of the security sector of Ukraine in the context of the European integration as well as on recent developments in Ukraine after the local elections,” the invitation, sent out by the Brussels-based PR firm Glocal Communications, says. EUobserver understands that British centre-right member of parliament Charles Tannock Æ12
ÆAppetizers start at 25 euros, while roast duckling costs 78 euros at posh place
Tetyana Neteshyna, lawyer “Some people support the new tax code; others do not. From what I am hearing, I think that imposing high taxes on small and medium businesses is not a good idea. But there are companies with very high earnings that only pay Hr 200 in taxes. So, for their income I think that this tax code is fair.” Mark Yefymov, pensioner “There have always been lots of these codes, but no result. It’s not going to get better with either taxes, or anything else in our country.” Andriy Degun, engineer “I think that our tax system will continue being unfair, just like it has been. Moreover, with the new code all that people will be working for is to afford to pay taxes. What are they going to eat in this case? I think many businesses will simply die.” Iryna Sidorenko, architect “It is unfair. The tax system is already suffocating business. Now, instead of investing in the development of our company, we will have to pay more taxes. Very soon, private companies will stop functioning altogether.”
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Microsoft CEO upbeat on Ukraine, urges fight against piracy
PricewaterhouseCoopers talks taxes, registration with expats
Steve Ballmer (center), the CEO of international software giant Microsoft Corporation, visited Ukraine on Nov. 5. During the visit, Ballmer met with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (left) and the nation’s IT professionals. Speaking to a crowd of IT professionals at a leading Ukrainian university, Kyiv Politechnic Institute, Ballmer spoke of the nation’s promise in the IT industry. “With more than 200,000 software developers working in Ukraine, including 100,000 students, Ukraine is ready to become a leader in creative designs and innovation. Thus, Microsoft is serious about working with Ukraine,� he said. Ballmer also urged Ukraine to cut down on the use of pirated software, including Microsoft’s operating system. During talks, Ukraine’s government pledged to legalize software it uses at government offices. (Courtesy)
The Kyiv offices of international audit and accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers held an open-door discussion on Nov. 9 at Kyiv’s InterContinental Hotel, providing free advice to foreigners and their businesses on how to pay taxes and register their operations in Ukraine. Marc-Tell Madl (center), a partner with the tax and legal department at PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Kyiv office, and Andrey Pronchenko (right), one of the firm’s consultants, are seen in the above photograph chatting with an attendee. About 100 people attended the event, which lasted for several hours. Durign the event, PricewaterhouseCoopers representatives gave presentations and held informal discussions with attendees. (Oleksiy Boyko)
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appointed coordinator of the white-collar crime practice at AstapovLawyers, a Kyiv-based law firm. In his new post, Gromovoi will deal with regulatory investigations involving actual or potential criminal prosecution, with general litigation practice, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. Prior to joining AstapovLawyers, Gromovoi worked as a lawyer at the Stolytsia Advocatory Association for three years, where he gained valuable experience in corporate, trade and tax law. Gromovoi has also advised on corporate business law issues for Karavan, the investment group which owns one of the largest shopping malls and construction hypermarkets in Kyiv. Gromovoi graduated from Kharkiv’s Yaroslav the Wise National Law Academy. He has held an attorney’s license since October 2008.
has joined Adamant Investments, a Kyivbased investment bank, as head the group’s department of investment consulting. Kubytovych has more than five years of experience on Ukraine’s stock market. She is a certified stock trader. Before joining Adamant Investments, Kubytovych worked at the Kyiv offices of Foyil Securities. Kubytovych has a master’s degree in international economic relations from Kyiv International University.
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was appointed head of the private banking department at Phoenix Capital, a Kyiv-based investment company. In his new post, Shakhalov will be in charge of setting up a private banking department. Shakhalov has four years of experience in providing private banking and consulting services for high net worth Individuals as the head of individual projects department at Alfa-Bank in Ukraine. Shakhalov has held various executive positions at Ukraine’s largest banks, including Aval, UkrSibbank and Raiffeisen Bank Ukraine. He is also a deputy head of the committee on private banking at the Association of Ukrainian Banks. Shakhalov is a graduate of Odessa College of Finance and Economics and Ukraine’s International University.
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Business Sense
Editor’s Note: Business Sense is a feature in which experts explain Ukraine’s place in the world economy and provide insight into doing business in the country. To contribute, contact chief editor Brian Bonner at bonner@kyivpost.com
WITH MICHAEL LEE AGRONOMY.UKRAINE@YAHOO.CO.UK
Nation should not be in rush to lift moratorium on sale of farmland A moratorium currently disbars foreign entities from buying farm land in Ukraine; instead agribusinesses lease land for five to 20 years. Each year there is seemingly an increasing number of calls to lift the moratorium on land sales, citing land tenure as a barrier to further investment and development of Ukraine’s promising yet undeveloped agriculture sector. This may be true in part, but it does oversimplify the picture and is generally the opinion pushed by parties with vested economic interests in the moratorium being lifted. When the moratorium is lifted and land can be bought and sold, landlords will presumably be offered a substantial lump sum cash payment at the current market value in exchange for the deeds to their land. Many will invest the windfall wisely: start up a small enterprise of their own, fund their children through university or take off on that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the grandchildren. However, it is fairly certain that in many cases they won’t. The financial windfall will be lost pretty quickly, wasted or just plain conned out of individuals. And once it’s gone, it’s gone. Under the current system, landlords choose to receive their annual rental income in cash or in a combination of cash, seeds and straw that is used, traded or bartered, according to individual needs. Meager as it may seem when compared to the value of land, this is a regular annual payment made every year. When the moratorium is lifted, land is sold and the money used up, exlandowners will no longer receive any regular annual income. It is also worth bearing in mind that demand for, and therefore the value of land, is increasing as the global population increases and the area of land
ÆMany things hold back progress in farm sector, but land ownership is not one available for food production declines. This in turn will drive up the rental value of land and increase the income available to landlords. This may well make the difference between the village thriving or dying a slow death as people migrate looking for opportunities elsewhere. Leasing land and paying rents will not lead to a wider renaissance in rural communities by itself. That would require some initiative from the state, but it will aid the process and should be seen as a part of a wider socioeconomic mix. In a country where more than 26 percent of the population is living below the poverty line, it is an efficient way to filter foreign investment directly to where it can have the greatest impact – namely in people’s pockets. When land is sold, any future benefits will leave the country to pay dividends and shareholders. Some will be reinvested. But it will be on tractors, machinery, fertilizers and chemicals, much of which is produced by foreignowned companies and have shareholders of their own.
An inefficient and aging Soviet harvesting machine gathers this season's wheat crop in Poltava Oblast. Ukrainian farmers harvested nearly 41 million metric tons of grain from this season’s crop as of Nov. 5. The harvest is down 11 percent, year-on-year, due to poor weather conditions, according to government figures. While still a big harvest and enough to preserve Ukraine’s place as one of the world’s top grain suppliers, the yield remains relatively low, at about 2.8 tons per hectare. Despite having favorable weather and some of the world’s richest soil, Ukraine’s annual agriculture yields remain much lower than that of developed nations, where more efficient fertilizers, irrigation and harvesting technologies are used. Experts predict that if Ukraine attracts billions of dollars of investment into its agriculture sector in the next decade, it could nearly triple its annual harvest, turning the nation into a global agriculture superpower. (Yaroslav Debelyi)
Most landowners have a vested interest in how their land is managed and maintained as many of them live on or near the land they own. They don’t want inappropriate use of chemicals and fertilizers taking place. Large businesses tend, at the moment at least, to employ qualified and experienced specialists and do a very professional job. However pollution, habitat destruction and soil degradation are all problems that continue
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to exist despite efficient technologies introduced by big business. Who can predict what farming practices will take place in the future? If a landowner continues to own the land, then theoretically they will have some say in how the land is managed. Essentially, if they don't like what the current tenants do, they can kick them out and rent their land to another tenant. Such a relationship could put pres-
sure on the tenant to manage the land in an appropriate, responsible and sustainable manner. But once the land is sold, the local population will have little leverage in how it is to be managed and how their local environment might be affected. The current system also suits tenants. From their perspective, not having to find huge amounts of capital to pay for land is advantageous. It opens up the investment market to more but smaller investors, thereby increasing the total amount of investment coming in to the country. Also, as large sums of cash don’t need to be committed to land, it can be put into equipment, inputs and infrastructures where it will have a greater impact on the return on investment. Many commentators suggest that the lack of land ownership is holding back the development of Ukrainian agriculture. They say yields would improve if businesses owned the land they farmed. But most farm businesses in the United Kingdom, which has higher yields than Ukraine despite less rich land and sometimes tougher weather conditions, do not own the land. It doesn't seem to make much of a difference there. The average United Kingdom wheat yield last year was a shade under eight metric tons per hectare, or several times higher than in Ukraine. There are many things holding back the development of Ukrainian agriculture, but land ownership is not necessarily one of them. Michael Lee is an independent agricultural specialist with more than 20 years experience in the agricultural sector. He spent 13 years lecturing agriculture and agronomy at a leading United Kingdom university. He has worked extensively in Ukraine, in many former Soviet republics and across Europe. He can be reached at agronomy.ukraine@yahoo.co.uk
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Ukraine still stuck near bottom of world investment climate rankings BY M A R K R AC H K E VYC H RACHKEVYCH@KYIVPOST.COM
Ukraine inched up two places on the World Bank’s most recent study of business regulations. But the nation still has much work ahead if it is to climb out of the depths where it sits alongside other nations with horrible investment climates. According to the study, improvement detected in Ukraine was not as fast as in other nations in Eastern Europe and
Central Asia, leaving it second to last in the geographic region. Placing in the bottom quarter of 183 national economies in the 145th spot, Ukraine “carried out three regulatory reforms aimed at making it easier to start a business, deal with construction permits and also eased tax compliance,” according to Doing Business 2011: Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs, the eighth in a series of annual reports published by the International Finance Corporation and the World Bank.
Ease of obtaining construction permits Easiest
RANK
Most Difficult
RANK
Hong Kong SAR, China
1
Malawi
174
Singapore
2
Burundi
175
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
3
Serbia
176
Belize
4
India
177 178
New Zealand
5
Tajikistan
Marshall Islands
6
Ukraine
179
Georgia
7
Tanzania
180 181
St. Kitts and Nevis
8
China
Maldives
9
Russian Federation
182
Denmark
10
Eritrea*
183
Note: Rankings are the average of the economy’s rankings on the procedures, time and cost to comply with formalities to build a warehouse. * No practice. Source: International Finance Corporation and World Bank.
The report said Ukraine eased business start-up by substantially reducing the minimum capital requirement. It cut 9 out of 31 procedures to obtain construction permits and it eased tax compliance by continuing the implementation of voluntary electronic filing for value-added-tax returns. But Ukraine’s regulatory environment and tax system are still ranked amid the most complex and corrupt in the world, according to the World Bank ranking. “Reforms are taking place in Ukraine, but not at a pace sufficient to allow Ukraine to advance vis-à-vis the other economies with whom it is competing for investment and markets,” said Martin Raiser, World Bank country director for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. “The reform agenda is well known, but its implementation needs to be accelerated and policy actions need to be more consistent. A deepened deregulation and reform effort to ease entry and exit, make it simpler to pay taxes, and abolish redundant regulations and standards could send a powerful signal to domestic and foreign investors.” The Caucasus republic of Georgia, seen by some experts as a model for former Soviet republics to follow in their pursuit of improving their invest-
Eastern Europe & Central Asia Ease of Doing Business *Singapore
1
Lithuania
12 17 23
Latvia
24
Georgia Estonia
Cyprus Macedonia, FYR Kyrgyz Republic Armenia Bulgaria Azerbaijan
37 38 44 48 51 54
Romania Kazakhstan
56 59
Turkey Montenegro Belarus Albania Croatia Serbia Moldova Bosnia and Herzegovina Kosovo Russian Federation Tajikistan Ukraine Uzbekistan
65 66 68 82 84 89 90 110 119 123 139 145 150
Note: Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business, from 1 - 183, with first place being the highest. The ease of doing business index averages the economy's percentile rankings on 9 topics, made up of a variety of indicators, giving equal weight to each topic. The rankings are from the Doing Business 2011: Making aDifference for Entreprenuers report, covering the period June 2009 to June 2010. * Singapore is shown as a benchmark. Source: International Finance Corporation and World Bank.
ment climate, again placed top in the region at 12. Meanwhile, Kazakhstan, another former Soviet republic, moved up 15 places to 59 being named one of this year’s 10 most-improved economies. On a global level, the Eastern European and Central Asian regions
remained the most active in improving business regulation for domestic firms with 21 of 25 economies improving business regulation for local firms. Kyiv Post staff writer Mark Rachkevych can be contacted at rachkevych@kyivpost.com
Will Russia really build Ukraine its own nuclear fuel plant? Not all think so BY J O H N M A R ON E MARONE@KYIVPOST.COM
The deal was signed and hailed as part of a visit to Kyiv by none other than Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. But some fear Ukraine is far from certain of getting its own source of nuclear fuel and thus lessening its energy dependence on Moscow. And the reason for such fears, according to critics of the Oct. 27 signing, is that Moscow has no interest in breaking the monopoly it has long held on deliveries of Russian made nuclear fuel to Ukraine’s four nuclear power stations. Defenders of the bilateral agreement, which entails Russian state-controlled TVEL building Ukraine’s first nuclear fuel plant, emphasize Ukraine’s future as an exporter of nuclear fuel to Europe. Ukraine, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, at Chornobyl (Chernobyl) in 1986, still depends on atomic energy to produce nearly half of the country’s electricity. It was on the 24th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster, April 26, that Putin voiced a controversial and unexpected proposal to unite the two countries’ nuclear industries. More recently, on Oct. 27, Putin returned to Ukraine for the 7th RussianUkrainian intergovernmental committee on economic cooperation, where
he and his Sovietesque Ukrainian counterpart Mykola Azarov moved toward implementing this proposal. Critics of the deal have pointed out that Ukraine, which has its own uranium (to make the fuel) and a substance called zirconium (to make the nuclear fuel assemblies) could have broken free of the Russian monopoly, which also extends to deliveries of natural gas and oil to Ukraine. But that opportunity passed when the American company Westinghouse lost out in its bid to build Ukraine’s first nuclear fuel plant to TVEL, a subsidiary of Russia’s nuclear power holding, Rosatom. Oleksandr Hudyma, an opposition lawmaker and specialist in nuclear energy, told the Kyiv Post that the Russians have no interest or intention of ever building the plant. “They aren’t planning to build anything at all,” he said. If the plant were built, according to Hudyma, Ukraine would still be contractually obliged to keep buying nuclear fuel from Russia for the lifespan of its existing 15 nuclear reactors. Hudyma said he is still trying to get copies of contracts of these sale contracts as well as the details of the Oct. 27 agreement. “But as far as I know, there are only a couple of reactors in former East Bloc countries that could use the kind of fuel that the Russian-
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (center) is seen smiling and satisfied during his Oct. 27 visit to Kyiv. Ukrainian and Russian government officials standing in front of him are seen shaking hands and exchanging documents. A series of controversial bilateral agreements were signed that more closely integrate the nuclear power, aviation and education spheres of both nations. (UNIAN)
made plant will produce,” he said. Yuriy Nedashkovsky, the head of Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear energy company Energoatom, said that modifications of the Russian made fuel assemblies would be applicable to European reactors. In an interview to the Kyiv Post on Nov. 3, he said Ukraine would “never” stop importing nuclear fuel from Russia. “If Ukraine has the plant, then we are guaranteed the opportunity to make
our own fuel and we have secured our energy dependence. But what if we suddenly get a chance to make fuel for export to Europe?” he said. The Oct. 27 agreement signed between Russian state-owned TVEL and Ukraine’s Nuclear Fuel Company envisions the construction of a plant in Ukraine with a capacity to process 400 metric tons of uranium per year – enough to meet all Ukraine’s domestic needs, experts say.
TVEL’s press service said the plant could be put into operation as early as 2013, but only if Ukraine moved “quickly” to approve a site. Oleg Grigoriev, TVEL’s executive director for the CIS and Eastern Europe, told the Kyiv Post that Ukraine will own a controlling (50 percent +1 share) stake in the plant, which his company won the right to build fair and square. The results of the competitive evaluation to select the builder of the plant were announced by the Ukrainian Cabinet on Sep. 22. However, a source close to the deal who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the competition was non-transparent and accompanied by a black PR campaign against Westinghouse, which was supported in its bid by the U.S. government. Russia could indeed delay building of the fuel plant indefinitely, the anonymous source said, as it did for more than a decade already. TVEL first won a tender to build a plant in Ukraine way back in 1996, but nothing materialized. The idea to hold another competition, a competitive evaluation instead of a tender, only resurfaced after the pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko became Ukraine’s president in 2005. But the process dragged on until this year’s win by TVEL. Kyiv Post Staff Writer John Marone can be contacted at marone@kyivpost. com
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Trains opening soon Kyiv authorities are planning to launch a circular highspeed, above-ground train route by the end of 2011. According to first deputy city mayor Oleksandr Popov, by May 2011 three new city train stations will be open – Vyshhorodska, Syrets and Borshchahivka. According to Popov, the project will cost the city budget Hr 60 million. Another two stations on the left bank of the Dnipro River – Livoberezhna and Darnytsya – are also slated for opening. The city train currently connects only two stations – Troyeshchyna and Petrivka. The route, which opened this year, makes commuting easier for a halfmillion residents of Kyiv’s Troyeshchyna district. They can now get to the nearest subway station, Petrivka, without having to cross the frequently clogged Moscow Bridge during rush hours, helping to reduce the number of cars, buses and minivans on the roads. Authorities also plan to usse railways to connect city and suburbs in the future, as is done in most European cities. At right, new trains go for test run. (UNIAN, Mykola Tymchenko)
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Many businesses pay little in taxes Æ1 ed by an employee who collected $140 and they were ushered into a large room which filled quickly. A smartly dressed, young woman in her 30s walked confidently to the front. “How many people here already own an offshore company?” asked Ivanna Pylypiuk, managing partner with International Consulting Group. There was silence. “You don’t want to admit it,” Pylypiuk said, smiling. Pylypiuk was the first of a number of speakers who explained over the next few hours how to set up offshore companies – the tool often used to avoid taxes and to hide ownership of assets. The training, titled “The Offshore Schemes in Business: Everything Important You Need to Know Working with Offshores - Practical Advice,” was also attended by a reporter for the international Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. The seminar was advertised as a place where participants could learn how to minimize corporate and personal taxes, as well as hide money or assets offshore. The seminar takes place in Kyiv and other big cities of Ukraine as often as once a week. According to the seminar package, it was jointly organized by International Consulting Group, Tax Consulting UK and Aurora Consulting. Judging from the attendance and the existence of competing seminars, these events are popular with business people. In Ukraine, taxes are not only expensive, but complicated. A World Bank report in 2010 called Ukraine’s tax system the third most difficult in the world behind only Venezuela and Belarus. This particular seminar was delivered in near anonymity. The participants were never introduced to each other. There were no “what to expect” sessions and a form was helpfully provided for participants to ask questions confidentially.
How to secretly own property using offshores
Pylypiuk emphasized that all the offshore schemes she and her colleagues were presenting could be purchased by the participants after the seminar. “Each one of you has the right for a free personal consulting session,” Pylypiuk told the rapt audience.
Learning to hide The seminar delivered as advertised by telling people the tricks of the offshore trade while scrupulously avoiding much discussion of what may be breaking the law. Pylypiuk and others offered helpful advice – such as those involved in export and import operations had the most to gain in avoiding taxes, and that offshore havens were good for the wealthy, especially those with yachts and other high-end assets. “Beware of the political instability and the new tax code, with its luxury tax,” she told participants. Speakers recommended Ukrainians open companies in such exotic locales as Belize, Panama and the Seychelles and to combine them with fake fronts in the United Kingdom, Cyprus or Holland. A middle-aged lady sitting in the front row interrupted Pylypiuk and asked how she is supposed to move money from Ukraine to the account of her offshore company. Pylypiuk seemed amused by the question. “The offshore can accept any amount of money – transferred from a Ukrainian company’s account, another offshore company’s account or even from a suitcase of cash that you have, because the offshore company doesn’t have to report. There are lots of schemes, but I can only tell you the details in private, as cash transactions would be a criminal offense,” she replied. The details were kept vague. The attendees were promised help later in their private sessions, but they are assured the process could be as
Dmytro Chernyavsky, a Ukrainian-Russian businessman linked with training seminars on offshore tax-minimization strategies, shows off the new design of Kyiv’s Olympic Stadium that he managed in 2008-2009. (Dmytro Nikonorov)
simple as “an easy wave of your hand and the money is transferred to your [offshore] account,” Pyplypiuk said. “As long as you have the money in the first place, the rest would be easy.” Sourse: International Consulting Group
The owner (Beneficiary)
Offshore with anonymous ownership (Belize, Panama, the Seychelles)
Façade Company (UK, Cyprus, Switzerland. Austria, the Netherlands)
Other questions from the audience directly addressed tax evasion. “If I have a supermarket chain, what’s the best way to import vegetables?” asked another participant. The answer, drawn on a whiteboard, was a classic offshore scheme. A company in the European Union acts as facade for a series of offshore companies connected to a licensed warehouse in Poland used for the importation. “Offshore is the place where all the traces and connections disappear. The only authority that can get through to an offshore company with requests is Interpol, but you will be the one who will be responding to their request,” said Viktoria Boyko of Tax Consulting UK/Aurora Consulting. During the lunch break, the lecturers got to know the attendees better, casually chatting with them over a cup of coffee. Very soon, however, the conversations got into specifics. . The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reporter talked with speaker Iryna Nesterenko, a lawyer with International Consulting Group. He asked how he can avoid paying taxes on a consulting services contract with a U.S. company. “It’s possible,” Nesterenko replied, adding that setting up such a scheme would be difficult and expensive.
Offshore transparency
Real Estate
Ukrainian Company
Yachts, Vessels, etc.
The seminars seem to be working. According to Ukraine’s State Tax Administration, offshore-related activities are on the rise. In the first half of 2010, there has been a 54 percent growth in exports to offshore companies, totaling $1.6 billion. The most popular destination, according to tax authorities, are the British Virgin
Islands, which accounts for 73 percent of all of the offshore trade. Yaroslav Lomakin is the founder of the Moscow-based consulting firm Honest & Bright and the former head of the Kyiv branch of Tax Consulting UK, a United Kingdom registered firm and a co-sponsor of the conference. He has watched the offshore services segment grow in Ukraine as well as in Russia. “I don’t know a single big business in Ukraine which is owned transparently and doesn’t use non-resident companies,” Lomakin said. Lomakin’s description of Ukraine’s business climate is well illustrated by statistics. According to the State Statistics Committee, Cyprus is the top foreign investor in Ukraine, having invested more than $9 billion, or 22.5 percent of all foreign investment. Even more interestingly, Cyprus also is the biggest recipient of Ukrainian foreign investment. Local companies invested $6.3 billion in the island country, or more than 93 percent of all outgoing investment. Martin Raiser, the World Bank director for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, says there is no precise calculations how much tax revenue is lost in Ukraine due to the widespread use of tax minimization and evasion schemes. However, Raiser points out that in Russia, the elimination of the doubletaxation agreement with Cyprus alone increased tax revenues by about 0.6 percent of gross domestic product, or nearly $7.5 billion. According to expert estimates, in Ukraine the revenue lost because of the double taxation agreement with Cyprus could reach up to $ 3 billion a year – nearly 10 percent of the government’s approximate $30 billion in spending annually. Æ11
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Closing tax loopholes is one of the crucial suggestions made by the World Bank in its recent Country Economic Memorandum. In Raiser's opinion, this would not only generate much needed additional revenues, but would also create more balance in the distribution of costs for making necessary fiscal adjustments. “The point of closing these loopholes is not only to decrease the budget deficit, but also to make the big businesses benefitting from the offshore loopholes contribute to fiscal adjustment,” Raiser said, adding that most of the big businesses in Ukraine are using offshore minimization schemes, as they have an opportunity to do so legally. At the same time, Raiser is skeptical that the new tax code would help change the situation for the better. “To be honest, there is room for improvement,” Raiser said. Lomakin, founder of the Moscowbased consulting firm Honest & Bright, said that with high taxes and a corrupt business environment in Ukraine, big businesses do not have many options other than to use tax optimization schemes. Only the political elite can create a favorable business environment for their companies, Lomakin said, while everyone else must use offshore companies. The beneficiaries of the boom is the offshore services industry, which Lomakin said has become so sophisti-
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Æ “I don’t know a single business in Ukraine which is owned transparently and doesn’t use non-resident companies.” – Yaroslav Lomakin cated that it can adapt to any attempts by legislators to stop the tax minimization and evasion schemes. Lomakin estimates that a company that specializes in selling and servicing offshore companies can earn between $2 to $10 million annually. At the same time, Lomakin doubts tax authorities can or will do anything. “The worst thing could happen, when they go to the office of such a consulting company and torture you to find out who bought a specific offshore, all they would get would be the name of a lawyer or some other intermediary,” Lomakin said. Besides, he adds, corrupt officials very often use the same schemes to siphon their own
Palladium City office center in Kyiv on Nov. 10. (Yaroslav Debelyi)
illegal incomes out of the country. “They would not be cutting the tree branch they are sitting on,” he laughs. Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project talked to Pylypiuk a few weeks after the seminar. She said her company is doing nothing illegal and only provides clients with instruments. It’s up to clients how they use them. As to whether the schemes they recommend are illegal, Pylypiuk said that the tax authorities are aware of most of the schemes they are presenting, so there is no guarantee that they will always work. Pylypiuk also said it is not their fault if clients use the firms they set up for illegal activities. “We are only selling the instruments to clients. Whether they would play correctly, or use them for illegal purposes, is their own business. We don’t see and we don’t want to see this,” she said. Pylypuik also denied her company would assist in moving a client’s cash offshore. Lomakin, a former top manager of co-organizer Tax Consulting UK, claimed the same thing. “Moving cash is purely criminal. I stay away from these clients, they stink! There is a million beautiful and legal ways of moving one million out of the country,” he said. Both Aurora Consulting and Tax Consulting UK are linked to Dmytro Chernyavsky, a controversial UkrainianRussian businessman and a former state official. He could not be reached for comment. A native of Donetsk, 39-year old Chernyavsky is referred to as the board chairman of Aurora. According to a news report on the official website of Ukraine's government, Russian Aurora Capital headed by Chernyavsky was registered as a daughter company of the Danish Holding Aurora Investment. Starting in 2003, Chernyavsky’s name is also affiliated with London-based Tax Consulting UK, as officially holding a position as vice president for Eastern Europe. A database of Ukrainian companies from 2008 shows that the Ukrainian representative office of Tax Consulting UK is registered in downtown Kyiv at 24 Shota Rustaveli Street, office 19. The office of Aurora Consulting is located in office 17 of the same building. Both companies also use the same phone number. In October 2008, Chernyavsky was appointed to be an interim director of Kyiv’s Olympic Soccer Stadium, which is undergoing a major reconstruction that estimates say will cost the govern-
The biggest investors in Ukraine since its independence Total Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as of July 1 ($, billion)
Percentage of total FDI
Total
40.4
100.0
Cyprus
9.1
22.5
Germany
6.6
16.4
Netherlands
3.9
9.7
Russia
2.9
7.1
Austria
2.6
6.4
United Kingdom
2.2
5.5
France
1.7
4.2
British Virgin Islands
1.3
3.3
Sweden
1.3
3.2
United States
1.2
3.0
Italy
1.0
2.4
Poland
0.9
2.2
Switzerland
0.8
2.0
Other countries
4.9
12.1
Top recipients of Ukrainian foreign investment Total FDI as of July 1 ($, billion)
Percentage of total FDI
Total
6.8
100.0
Cyprus
6.3
93.1
Russia
0.16
2.4
Latvia
0.06
0.9
Poland
0.05
0.7
Georgia
0.03
0.5
Kazakhstan
0.02
0.3
British Virgin Islands
0.02
0.3
Other countries
0.118
1.8
Source: State Statistics Commitee Foreign investment statistics Cyprus is the leading recipient of foreign direct investment from Ukraine, attracting a whopping 92 percent of all cash outflows from Ukraine since national independence. At the same time, Cyprus is the leading foreign investor in Ukraine. Many assume that a considerable portion – if not all – of the money transferred between Ukraine and Cyprus as “investment” is actually money going from one pocket to another – with each transaction enjoying tax benefits applicable to foreign investment. 1,198
Exports to offshore countries on the rise ($ million)
815
First half 2009 First half 2010
216 55
British Virgin Islands
Belize
54
99
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
23
59
Saint Kitts and Nevis
54
46
Gibraltar
59
37
Other countries
Source: State Tax Administration of Ukraine
Export statistics Almost 5 percent of all exports from Ukraine in the first half of this year went to the British Virgin Islands, a British overseas territory in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico. On paper, most of these exports consisted of ferrous metals, oil, vegetable oils and animal fats. This is especially amazing, given that total population of the British Virgin Islands is 22,000 people. Experts say most of these commodities never make it to the Caribbean island. Rather, experts believe that fictitious exports are used by local companies for obtaining value-added tax refunds from the government, which grants benefit to exporters. Owners also minimize their income taxes by selling goods from one company they own to another one, at cost plus $1.
ment $500 million by the time it is done. The stadium will be the venue for the Euro 2012 final match. The government’s announcement of the appointment of Chernyavsky praised his corporate governance skills and experience, mentioning his involvement with Tax Consulting UK. But in May, Chernyavsky was, according to reports, detained temporarily on charges of embezzling state funds. According to Delo newspaper, the Security Service of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General suspected Chernyavsky gave out a contract worth Hr 549,000 ($70,000) for consulting services that had been already done and paid for. Earlier, the parliamentary commission investigating reconstruction of the Olympic stadium found that – during the currency exchange operations under Chernyavsky’s management – the state incurred losses totaling Hr 4.3 million ($543,000). Yet, Chernyavsky’s detainment was a brief one. No charges were filed. In July, he married Ekaterina Bogolubova,
the daughter of billionaire Gennady Bogolubov, one of Ukraine's richest men. The ceremony took place in Vienna. The couple is reportedly residing in London. Kyiv Post staff writer Vlad Lavrov can be reached at lavrov@kyivpost.com
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Kuzio: World won’t buy PR offensive from Soviet relics Æ4 commission is blatantly cynical response to international criticism of the local elections. The fourth was the public offer made by the Foreign Minister Kostyantin Hryshchenko to Hryhoriy Nemyria, BYuT’s foreign policy spokesman, to be an “unpaid adviser.” The fifth was to invite Western experts and the Vienna Commission to join a working group that would assist the authorities in improving Ukraine’s election legislation. The sixth, and smoothest, was Security Service of Ukraine head Valery Khoroshkovsky’s charm offensive in Brussels, where he invited 15 members of the European Parliament – not known for meager expense accounts – to the city’s most expensive restaurant, Maison du Cygne. Khoroshkovsky’s PR work is obviously political. The fact that he does not understand how the West perceives his conflicts of interests as SBU head, with his ownership of Inter TV channel and membership of the Higher Council of Justice that hires and fires judges, dents his ability to charm his guests. The value of such a coordinated charm offensive is undermined by three factors which harm Ukraine’s ability to be taken seriously in its declared intentions of seeking European integration. First, deception in the promise to hold free elections, in the promise to criminally indict election fraudsters, and the SBU’s outright lies when it first denies it is undertaking political surveillance of academics, journalists and political activists and then a month or so later admits to taking these steps. Such Soviet-style deception fools nobody, either in Ukraine or abroad. Yanukovych has monopolized power to a greater extent than ex-
ÆYanukovych’s first year in office shows old habits die hard: election fraud, muzzling media, corrupt business deals President Leonid Kuchma, who ruled from 1994-2005, but who also faced a parliament where half of the deputies were in opposition. And yet a “stable”current presidential regime finds it impossible to hold a free election while the “chaotic,” as the authorities always like to describe the former Orange Revolution regime, proved able to organize three free elections, including one that permitted Yanukovych to come to power. Second, the authorities have focused on imperfections in the election law that they blame for problems in the local elections while at the same time falling back on Soviet-style conspiracy theories that seek to belittle the significance of Western criticism. Herman believes critical Western news stories are “jeanzy”; that is, paid for articles as in Ukraine. Two free pieces of advice. If you want to be taken seriously in the West, do not resort to Homo Sovieticus (Sovok - literally dustpan, but slang for Soviet person; plural - sovki) rationale. And, do not therefore expect us to seriously believe your attempts in 2004 and 2010 to sidestep election fraud by saying such accusations are a “Western conspiracy.” The administration’s “multi-vectorism” amounts to rolling back the dem-
ocratic gains made under Yushchenko while at the same time still believing that Ukraine can integrate into, and one day join, the European Union. This will never happen and Ukraine’s leaders have to be politically mature enough to make a choice between either moving towards a Putinist authoritarian Russia, with its non-European political system, or signing a free trade agreement with the European Union. Yanukovych’s first year in office has shown though that old habits of election fraud, muzzling the media and non-transparent, corrupt business practices are too ingrained to give up. At the upcoming EU-Ukraine summit in Brussels on Nov. 22, EU leaders should impress upon Ukrainian leaders that there is a close connection between domestic and foreign policies. EU leaders should also impress on Ukraine’s oligarchs, who sponsored Yanukovych’s election campaign, that if they want free trade they should use their influence and power on the administration before the door of European integration is closed. Taras Kuzio is an Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation visiting fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
Letter to the editor USAID stands ready to help Ukraine improve its judiciary, rule of law Dear Editor, I was disappointed to read the Kyiv Post’s Nov. 5 opinion piece “Rule of lawlessness prevails in this nation.” The piece seems to reflect a misunderstanding of the remarks made by U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John F. Tefft and the chief of party of the USAID Ukraine Rule of Law Project, David Vaughn, at the Oct. 26-27 USAID Ukraine Rule of Law conference. A free and open discussion of judicial independence and transparency is critical to promote judicial reform in Ukraine, and USAID provided such a forum at this event. A diverse group of Ukrainian judges, legal experts and NGO leaders participated, and the event was open to the press. The conference occurred just 10 days after the Venice Commission – the Council of Europe’s advisory body on constitutional matters – issued its opinions on the Law on the Judiciary and Status of Judges. It was the first public event at which the strengths and weaknesses of the new judiciary
law were discussed, and at the conference key policymakers made public commitments to amend the law in line with the Venice Commission’s critique. USAID supports open dialogue on what can be done to improve the judiciary in Ukraine. There is no doubt that improvements are needed. However, over the past few years there has been progress in many areas. USAID’s work has promoted automated case management, which is key to reducing corruption and increasing transparency in the judicial system, and we have achieved the adoption of ethics rules for the more than 35,000 court staff in Ukraine. Thanks to USAID’s work, the new law includes positive features, such as requiring anonymous judicial testing and the rating of candidates online, which improves judicial selection. a national disciplinary body using In his remarks at the conference, Ambassador Tefft said he was pleased with passage of the new law on the
judiciary – but noted key Venice Commission concerns, including “problems related to the new status of the Supreme Court and in the increased role of the High Council of Justice in the appointment and dismissal of judges.” The conference resulted in more than 30 recommendations to improve the law in line with Venice Commission opinions. The attendees also identified more than a dozen specific recommendations for amending the constitution to promote “judicial independence and the rights of citizens to get a fair trial,” including adding into Section II of the constitution a provision on a person’s right to fair trial. USAID believes it is critical that the Ukrainian government meets its public commitments to implementing the Venice Commission’s recommendations. Janina Jaruzelski, Mission Director USAID Regional Mission for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova
Maison du Cygne, an expensive restaurant in Brussels, is at right. It was the scene of a Nov. 9 dinner party hosted by Security Service of Ukraine chief Valeriy Khoroshkovsky and attended by members of the European Parliament. (Courtesy)
Rettman: Europeans voice doubts about Khoroshkovsky’s conflicts, motivation Æ5 and Polish right-wing member Michal Kaminski – who hail from parties hostile to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych – have agreed to go. Romanian centre-left deputy Adrian Severin, from the Yanukovych-friendly Socialist & Democrats group in the European Parliament, was also invited but could not attend. Khoroshkovsky is one of the big men in the Yanukovych administration. On top of his duties as the chief of the Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrayiny, known as the SBU, the 41-year-old also controls the country’s largest media company, the U.A. Inter Media Group, and sits on the High Council of Justice, the panel responsible for hiring and firing Ukraine’s judges. The SBU has in recent months taken centre stage in complaints against Yanukovych’s alleged abuses of power. SBU officers have interrogated members of leading NGOs and governmentcritical journalists. A number of civil society leaders and some EU diplomats posted to the EU embassy in Kyiv believe their phones and apartments are bugged. In June, the U.A. Inter Media Group almost forced off the air its competitors, the independent TV stations TV5 and TVi. “This kind of thing didn’t happen in [former Ukrainian president Viktor] Yushchenko’s time. But now it is so,” Yevghen Bystrytsky, the Kyiv director of the George-Sorossponsored International Renaissance Foundation said. The Yanukovych-critical German centre-right member of the European Parliament, Elmar Brok, says the spy chief has a modern style. “He’s not the bully-boy type that you associate with the old nomenklatura. He’s a professional lawyer. He’s smart. He’s nice in his attitude. He says things like: ‘I understand. I see your problem. I will take this into consideration’,” Brok said. The German deputy was unimpressed with Khoroshkovsky’s answers on substance, however. Asked on several occasions about the conflict of interest inherent in his multiple roles, the Ukrainian said that his job is to make sure that judges are not corrupt. “You can favor a presidential system or a parliamentary system of power. But he doesn’t seem to understand that threatening the independence of
Valeriy Khoroshkovsky has many roles, including part-owner of the pro-presidential Inter TV channel and head of the Security Service of Ukraine, known as the SBU.
Æ “He’s not the bully-boy type... He’s smart.”
– Elmar Brok, European Parliament
the judiciary is one of biggest mistakes you can make when you are trying to build a new state,” Brok said. “He doesn’t seem to understand what are the proper limits of his mandate.” Commenting on the Maison du Cygne event, the German parliamentarian noted that the heads of the British security services, MI5 and MI6, would never be allowed to take part in such a meeting: “It shows that he plays a much more political role than simply being the head of the secret service. Normally, the head of the secret service is a civil servant. But he is a type of politician.” Andrew Rettman’s opinion was first published on the EUobserver’s website.
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Pyshnyy: Deaf people in Ukraine ‘are invisible’ BY E L E N A Z AG R E B IN A ZAGREBINA@KYIVPOST.COM
Only two years ago, Andriy Pyshnyy, right-hand man to Arseniy Yatsenyuk, was gearing up for his boss’ then-promising presidential election campaign. But as winter set in, Pyshnyy began to lose his hearing. By the end of the year, he was almost completely deaf. A member of a group – politicians – so often criticized for being isolated from average citizens, Pyshnyy suddenly found himself communicating with his wife and children using pen and paper, facing the tough challenges that confront people in Ukraine with a relatively common problem. Some two million of the nation’s 46 million people are believed to be deaf or have serious trouble hearing, according to the Ukrainian Deaf Community, a support group. Pyshnyy, a former deputy head of the National Security and Defense Council, found out the hard truth the hard way about life for deaf people in Ukraine. He learned that few efforts are under way to improve deaf people’s lives. Pyshnyy noted daily obstacles exist despite the fact that he – unlike many other deaf Ukrainian – had enough money to seek better medical treatment abroad. The problems deaf people encounter are numerous and easy to list. Television shows are not subtitled, and only a few news programs are accompanied by sign language. Who could forget Natalya Dmitruk, the signer for deaf viewers who urged viewers not to believe the results of falsified presidential elections in 2004 at the start of the democratic Orange Revolution? But political programming and national messages, such as the president’s New Year address, are inaccessible to deaf Ukrainians. Pyshnyy wrote to the most popular television channels, but got responses that subtitles were too expensive and there is no law to force channels to provide them. As a result, only foreign language films are subtitled. Medical care is patchy and unfo-
Andriy Pyshnyy, a top aide to former Verkhovna Rada speaker Arseniy Yatensiuk, inexplicably became almost completely deaf two years ago. The experience opened his eyes to how badly deaf people are treated. (UNIAN)
Based in Dnipropetrovsk, the specialized orphanage school for deaf pupils (above) opened its doors on Sept. 1. (Ukrinform)
cused. Getting a hearing aid is crucial to helping restore at least some hearing, but hospitals have a “one-size-fitsall” approach, Pyshnyy said. “Hearing aids are bought as if they were valenki (felt boots) – the same for everyone, though this process must be strictly individual,” he complained.
The Health Ministry and the State Statistics Committee keep poor track of the numbers of deaf people in Ukraine. Mykola Fomenko, head of the monitoring department for higher education at the Education Ministry, said that of all people with disabilities, deaf are the
most capable. “They can do a lot of work, are very focused and attentive, but of course they need to get education first,” he said. There are 59 special schools for the deaf and partially deaf people in Ukraine and 13 universities of different accreditation levels that accept these children. In a positive step, the Ukrainian Deaf Community and the Education Ministry are cooperating to find workplaces for future graduates, while the ministry is helping deaf schoolchildren get a place at a university in the necessary specialization without taking tests. This year, 152 students were assigned to various universities. But education isn’t a cure-all. Even if you’re well-educated, the jobs that are most frequently offered to the deaf are blue collar: cleaners, loaders, seamstresses and carpenters. Accountancy is a rare white-collar exception. Society as a whole has difficulty coping with the deaf. “We are invisible,”
said Pyshnyy. “No people, no problems. Our people don’t know anything about us. … When I check into the hotel or buy something in a shop and ask someone to repeat what they said, they usually grin and think I’m stupid. But people need to understand: deaf doesn’t mean dumb. ” Police officers are learning English for Euro 2012 guests, but they don’t know sign language to communicate with the large number of deaf compatriots. As for Pyshnyy, he said he still hasn’t come to terms with his loss of hearing. Nevertheless, he has managed to continue working in frontline politics. He has taught himself to lip read and, with the help of a hearing aid, can mostly make out what people are saying to him. “It took a lot of time to adapt, though I still don’t feel I’ve totally got into the way deaf people live,” he said. Kyiv Post staff writer Elena Zagrebina can be reached at zagrebina@kyivpost. com
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Ukraine’s 10 general prosecutors since 1991 Sept. 4, 1991 – Oct. 21, 1993 Viktor Shyshkin
Oct. 21, 1993 – Oct. 19 1995 Vladyslav Datsiuk
Oct. 19, 1995 – July 22, 1997 The Yanukovych and Pshonka families appear to be close from their Donetsk days and now occupy the highest positions of power in Ukraine’s political structure. Artem Pshonka (L) is a parliamentarian in the Verhovna Rada with the pro-presidential Party of Regions. His father, Viktor Pshonka (second from left) is the nation’s general prosecutor. Viktor Yanukovych Jr. (third from left), son of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (right), is also a parliamentarian.
Yanukovych’s prosecutor Æ1 in the 1990s – and on further to the national stage in Kyiv. Less flamboyant than some predecessors, Pshonka immediately cast doubt on his impartiality only two days after his Nov. 4 rubber-stamp approval by parliament. In an interview aired on Nov. 6 by Ukraine’s pro-presidential Inter TV channel, Pshonka unapologetically admitted that he is the president’s man. “As prosecutor general, I am a member of the team tasked with carrying out all the decisions made by the president,” Pshonka said. The subservience contradicts the mandate of a general prosecutor to be impartial, besides muddling the separation of powers between the executive and judicial branches envisioned by Ukraine’s constitution. In a sign of how all levers of influence in the country have fallen into Yanukovych’s hands since he took over as president in February, it took less than an hour on Nov. 4 for parliament to approve his nomination to replace Oleksandr Medvedko as the nation’s 11th top prosecutor. During his interview with Inter TV, Pshonka – in contradiction to his fealty to the president – insisted that
the prosecutor’s office under his leadership will be squeaky clean. “High moral standards, professionalism, the ability to take responsibility and carry out the tasks are the qualities we will promote among the 11,000 employees of the state prosecutor’s office,” Pshonka said. The remarks are nonsense, according to Serhiy Taran, director of the Kyiv-based International Democracy Institute, who said Pshonka’s appointment and statements show Ukraine’s law enforcement system is again “incapable of impartiality.” “Employees of the prosecutor’s office, now headed by Pshonka, will do exactly what Yanukovych and his team tell them to do, and that doesn’t include investigating alleged crimes involving the president and his allies in the Party of Regions,” Taran said. “I can think of no crimes allegedly involving Yanukovych or his entourage that the prosecutor’s office will investigate objectively under Pshonka. That includes how Yanukovych acquired his [multi-million dollar] Mezhyhirya residence outside of Kyiv, the cover-up of the 2001 murder in Donetsk Oblast of television journalist Ihor Oleksandrov, conversations with
Two Viktors, side-by-side Like Viktor Yanukovych, Viktor Pshonka was born and raised in the Donbass, the rough coal-mining and steel mill region of eastern Ukraine. After a stint in the army and study at the Kharkiv Institute of Law, he settled down in Kramatorsk, a heavy machine building center located 80 kilometers north of Donetsk, and worked for the prosecutor’s office. In 1997, he relocated to Donetsk, the provincial capital, to serve as deputy chief prosecutor for the region. Yanukovych was governor of Donetsk at the time. When Yanukovych made the leap to Kyiv in 2003 by landing the prime minister’s job, Pshonka followed close behind. He was bumped up to the position of deputy head of Ukraine’s General Prosecutor’s Office. Pshonka resigned from this job in December 2004 in the heat of the democratic Orange Revolution, when a rigged presidential vote in favor of Yanukovych was overturned. But he returned as deputy prosecutor general in 2006, when Yanukovych reclaimed the premiership. What explains such loyalty? In part, there are reportedly family-like relations. Moreover, one of Pshonka’s sons, Artem, is a Party of Regions parliament deputy, just like Yanukovych’s son, Viktor Yanukovych Jr. When entrusted by Yanukovych for a job, Pshonka has delivered. Following his reinstatement as deputy prosecutor general in 2006, Pshonka provided oversight over the activities of the lucrative state railway system and provided prosecutorial oversight in several high-profile cases, including Kyiv’s Elita Center real estate fraud case and the allegedly illegal transfers of Russian natural gas to Ukraine. He stepped in as acting prosecutor general when Oleksandr Medvedko, another Yanukovych ally, suffered a heart attack in April 2007. He was named first deputy prosecutor general in June. The All–Ukrainian Conference of Prosecutors on Dec. 17, 2009, elected Pshonka as their member of the institution responsible for disciplining judges, the High Council of Justice, where he will remain an ex-officio member during his term as prosecutor general, a provision of the new court law criticized in October by the Venice Commission. Now as prosecutor general, not only is Pshonka one of the closest people to Yanukovych again, he is also holds one of the most powerful jobs in the nation, deciding who is a criminal, who is not; who goes to prison, who remains free.
former President Leonid Kuchma to rig the 1999 presidential elections, the 2004 rigged presidential election, let alone the rigged 2010 local elections.”
What to expect? For one thing, Ukrainians can expect to see more investigations and criminal charges targeted against political opponents and critics of the administration. This already may be happening, with the Nov. 5 announcement that exInterior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko faces criminal charges for an alleged financial crime involving a less than $5,000 overpayment to his driver. Considering the magnitude of the unsolved murders and multi-billion financial crimes in Ukraine, the charges against Lutsenko are almost ludicrous. However, Lutsenko is a political enemy and an ally of Yanukovych’s bitter rival, ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. “Expect so-called anti-corruption efforts that will exclusively target opposition political leaders and their friends, just like when Kuchma was in charge. We’ve gone back to the old way of doing things,” Taran added.
Ihor Oleksandrov Pshonka ran the prosecutor’s office in Donetsk in 2001 when Yanukovych was the region’s governor, and when TV journalist Ihor Oleksandrov was clubbed to death. The hired hit occurred 10 months after the kidnapping and decapitation of another investigative journalist in Kyiv, Georgiy Gongadze. Many believe Oleksandrov was killed because of his work documenting collusion between top Donetsk law enforcement officials, including Pshonka, his son Artem (today a parliament deputy in Yanukovych’s Regions Party) and organized criminal groups in Donetsk’s Kramatorsk and neighboring Slovyansk regions, where Oleksandrov worked. The official murder investigation culminated in the arrest of Yuriy Veredyuk, a 44-year local vagrant. Pshonka at the time praised investigators for their high professionalism and quick work. Then-Donetsk governor Yanukovych was even quoted as telling Oleksandrov’s wife: “They killed your husband by mistake.” But the story didn’t end there. Veredyuk, who suffered from tuberculosis, was released from pre-trial confinement in May 2002 after the Donetsk regional appeals court refused to convict him. He died two months later of poisoning. Veredyuk was eventually vindicated. In 2006,
after mounting international and domestic pressure, the two local gangsters Oleksandrov exposed in his reporting were convicted of ordering his murder. They, along with three accomplices, were sentenced to lengthy jail terms. Oleh Yeltsov, a veteran investigative reporter who reported on the Oleksandrov case, said: “It is inconceivable Pshonka didn’t know who ordered the murder.” Former deputy prosecutor general Bohdan Ferents, who represented Oleksandrov’s wife and son in court during the early 2000s, said Pshonka and his superiors had “lacked the will” to bring the real killers of Oleksandrov to justice. “Our entire legal system has degenerated to the point where powerful officials can simply order delays at the cost of further destroying the nation’s remaining integrity,” Ferents said. Yuriy Boichenko, spokesman for the general prosecutor’s office, said on Nov. 5 that Pshonka has no time to talk with reporters about his role in the Oleksandrov case. “There are hundreds of prosecutors in line to see him. The prosecutor general is too busy to talk with journalists,” he said.
Bad encounter Oleksiy Hazubej, chief editor of the daily tabloid Blik, on Nov. 4 recalled an unsettling encounter with Pshonka in Kramatorsk in 1993. “Our newspaper, Tekhnopolis, covered a reception in Kramatorsk for Josef Kobzon in 1993 or 1994. We wrote about the honored guests who attended the affair and the cars they arrived in, including Pshonka,” Hazubej wrote in his Kyiv Post blog on Nov. 4. “The newspaper’s chief editor and owner were summoned days later to Pshonka’s office after the article was published. He explained matter-of-factly that he was the Kramatorsk chief prosecutor and, as a defender of citizens’ rights, he could not be seen to own such an expensive car. His assistant then entered the room and told us it would be possible to close down our newspaper legally. Pshonka just sat there. He didn’t seem very embarrassed. The newspaper’s chief editor and owner gave in immediately.” Pshonka declared $88,000 in income last year, with $50,000 coming from his salary as deputy prosecutor. Property declared by Pshonka includes seven- and three-acre land plots. He is also co-owner of an apart-
Hryhoriy Vorsinov
July 22, 1997 – April 24, 1998 Oleh Lytvak
July 17, 1998 – April 30, 2002 Mykhailo Potebenko
July 6, 2002 – Oct. 29, 2003 Sviatoslav Pyskun
Nov. 18, 2003 – Dec. 9, 2004 Hennadiy Vasylyev
Dec. 10, 2004 – Oct. 14, 2005 Sviatoslav Pyskun
Nov. 4, 2005 – April 26, 2007 Oleksandr Medvedko
April 26, 2007 – May 24, 2007 Sviatoslav Pyskun
May 24, 2007 – June 1, 2007 Viktor Shemchuk
June 1, 2007 – Nov. 4, 2010 Oleksandr Medvedko
Nov. 4, 2010 – Present Viktor Pshonka
ment measuring 126 square meters, and a plot of land with a garage and an unfinished house. Pshonka says he has Hr. 800,000 in bank savings and other deposits.
‘Political terror’ The oppositionist Batkivshchyna Party led by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko issued a statement on Nov. 10 saying that the new general prosecutor has been given the go-ahead to start a “political terror campaign” against critics. “Viktor Yanukovych has instructed Pshonka to harass the opposition and destroy Batkivshchyna,” the press release says. “According our information, Pshonka will speed up the activities of his office directed against opposition politicians.” The statement said recent cases launched against former government employees when Tymoshenko was prime minister makes it obvious that the criminal acts prosecutors Æ15
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Critics say prosecutor shows bias of judicial system Æ14 allege they committed are contrived and politically motivated. Since Yanukovych took over as president, half a dozen of former officials who served in Tymoshenko’s government have been arrested. Some have been in jail for nearly a half year without due process. Others are wanted by authorities. Pshonka has reportedly played a big role in the investigations, signing the arrest warrants for Anatoly Makarenko, former head of the State Customs Service, and Ihor Didenko, former first deputy head of state gas company Naftogaz Ukraine, among others. They are being charged for approving a bilateral agreement between Tymoshenko and her thenRussian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, which transferred billions of dollars of gas from Swiss-registered RosUkrEnergo to Ukraine’s state company. Tymoshenko has repeatedly challenged the transparency of RosUkrEnergo, which is jointly controlled by Russia’s Gazprom and businessmen close to Yanukovych’s inner circle.
Sticking to party line Personally introduced in parliament by Yanukovych on Nov. 4, Pshonka breezed through confirmation hearings. Deputies belonging to the pro-presidential parliament majority gave speeches praising him, instead of asking questions. No one asked about Pshonka’s role in the Oleksandrov murder investigation, RosUkrEnergo or his failure of the years to solve any of the big crimes that continue to haunt Ukraine. A positive spin was put on Pshonka’s past. Speaking at parliament’s podium, he told deputies that the level of crime in Ukraine has dropped over the past five years, as evidenced by a 36 percent drop in serious crimes over the period. “It is necessary to adopt a new criminal procedural code to ensure the effective functioning of the lawenforcement system,” Pshonka said. “This is not only Ukraine’s obligation to the European Union, but a requirement for the country’s lawenforcement system to function more effectively.” He said rooting out corruption in the nation’s court system is a priority and praised the adoption of the new law on the judiciary, which he said would provide a mechanism to hold judges accountable for their unlawful decisions. The law, adopted in July, has been criticized by legal experts at home and abroad for eroding judicial independence by giving the 20-member High Council of Justice too much authority to discipline judges. The Venice Commission on Oct. 15 said the inclusion of the chief prosecutor as ex-officio member of the council raises particular concerns, as it may have a deterrence effect in judges and be perceived as a potential threat. “The prosecutor general is a party to many cases which the judges have to decide, and his presence on a body concerned with the appointment, disciplining and removal of judges creates a risk that judges will not act impartially in such cases or that the prosecutor general will not act impartially towards judges whose decisions he disapproves of,” the council said.
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Yanukovych acknowledges faults in Oct. 31 election, but Ukrainians may not vote for another two years While many Ukrainians have Æ1 put the vote behind them, those watching closely have found enough problems to question the legitimacy of the contests, the first elections to have taken place since Yanukovych came to power on Feb. 25. Given the president’s history, which includes alleged complicity in the undemocratic presidential elections of 2004 (when a vote was rigged in his favor), some had expected that Yanukovych would at least have tried to ensure that the vote was democratic. Instead, Yanukovych is more apt to hear criticism of his performance when he arrives in Brussels, Belgium, on Nov. 22 as part of the EU-Ukraine Summit. “We admit this,” Yanukovych said on Nov. 10, belatedly admitting that the election law was imperfect and that the elections did not meet high standards, according to comments quoted by Interfax-Ukraine news agency, which is seen as friendly to the president. Although it has been nearly two weeks since the elections, territorial electoral commissions are still struggling to achieve and report a final vote count. The inexplicable delays and lack of transparency only fuel allegations of fraud. Moreover, no single place exists to obtain the results and assess the transparency. The Central Election Commission said it is not responsible of announcing the results of all 15,000 election races. The law says the task falls to regional election commissions. The legal deadline for publishing official results was Nov. 5. Yet, many election commissions fell behind because of recounts and numerous complaints from parties and their representatives. When the results are in, however, the president's Party of Regions is expected to control all but four of 25 oblast councils and two-thirds of municipal offices.
Problems in Kharkiv One of the most glaring examples of a troubled contest came in the mayor’s race in Kharkiv, the nation’s second largest city.
A large crowd gathers in Kharkiv on Nov. 9 to protest results of the city’s mayoral election, alleging it was rigged. (UNIAN)
In the city’s mayoral elections, GfK Ukraine exit poll gave 34.7 percent for ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s Fatherland party representative Arsen Avakov, while his top opponent, Hennadiy Kernes from the Regions Party, got 30.9 percent. But in a protracted vote count announced on Nov. 4, Kernes was declared the winner by a slim margin – 0.63 percentage points. Hlib Vyshlinsky, GfK Ukraine deputy head, would not comment on the possibility of vote rigging in the Kharkiv poll, but stands by its exit-poll results showing Avakov as the winner. Furthermore, attempts by Avakov to challenge the results and seek a recount were hastily turned down by a court on Nov. 9. On the same day, several thousand protested and demanded a repeat mayoral vote.
Ternopil Oblast on Nov. 7, about a hundred supporters of the right-wing Svoboda party besieged the regional election commission for 10 hours, demanding election officials to publish the election results in all the region’s polling precincts. Such disclosure is a basic principle of democratic elections. The protesters also called on law enforcement agencies to investigate alleged attempts to falsify the vote.
Problems in Lviv In the elections for the Lviv city council, 18.6 percent of the protocols were considered invalid, Zaxid.net reports, casting doubt on the election results. According to election observers, people voted for candidates and local party branches that had quit the race, but whose names were still on the ballot.
Problems in Ternopil
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Olha Ayvazovska, head of the US-funded OPORA, one of the two largest election monitoring groups, said the problems with the local elections were forecast well ahead of the Oct. 31 vote. The election law was changed in the last few months. The election commissions were stacked with pro-presidential Regions Party supporters. Candidates for the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko did not appear on the ballots in two of their strongholds, Lviv and Kyiv oblasts, for disputed reasons. And obstacles were erected in the vote count and appeals process that lessened the transparency of the vote. OPORA concluded in a Nov. 4 statement that “local elections in Ukraine were not conducted in accordance with international standards and did not comply with good practices of election organization and conduct.”
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A member of a territorial election commission in western Ukraine's Ternopil demonstrates an election ballot during the Oct. 31 local elections. The rightwing Svoboda party mustered the most voter support in the region. (UNIAN)
In the days after the election, the U.S. and European Union cautiously criticized the election’s fairness. However, Alexander Rahr, a German political analyst, doesn’t think the Oct. 31 vote will have much impact on the nation’s relations with the West. “What is important for the West is that the International Monetary Fund keeps helping Ukraine to keep the country financially afloat,” Rahr said. “We won’t see serious alienation on the
part of the Western countries, at least not now. Certainly, Westerners will not close their eyes and will keep criticizing Ukrainians when needed, but will keep engaging Kyiv as they also do not want to lose Ukraine and let it completely go into Russia’s orbit.” While Ukraine’s Constitutional Court decides whether parliamentary elections should take place in 2011 or 2012, depending on which version of the constitution is adhered to, more political battles lie ahead. During a Nov. 9 press conference, Tymoshenko called the local elections the dirtiest and most dishonest ever. “This is evidence that ballot boxes continue to be stuffed, protocols are being rewritten, [and] the results of the elections are being changed with the assistance of judges and law enforcement structures,” she said, calling the Oct. 31 vote a “a wellorchestrated scheme to appoint, not elect, people to key posts in local government.” Iryna Bekeshkina, head of the Kyiv-based Democratic Initiatives Foundation, said that recent questionable local elections may merely be a dress rehearsal for the parliamentary ones, just like the rigged elections in the city of Mukachevo in 2004 were seen as a forerunner to the rigged presidential vote of Nov. 21, 2004, in which Yanukovych was declared the winner. The Ukrainian Supreme Court, spurred by hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians who took to the streets in the Orange Revolution, declared otherwise. The justices found so much fraud that determining a winner was impossible, so they ordered a new election, won on Dec. 26, 2004, by Yushchenko. Some see the outlines of an authoritarian regime in the making, complete with show elections, sanctioned “opposition,” muzzled news media and curbs on civil liberties. “Now we have a system of power that is controlled by one political force, from top to bottom. And we have seen how the work at the top – in the parliament and in the Constitutional Court,” Oleksiy Haran, the director of the School of Political Analysis at KyivMohyla Academy, said. Kyiv Post staff writer Yuriy Onyshkiv can be reached at onyshkiv@kyivpost. com
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The healing power of art & music
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Psychiatric hospitals in Ukraine are stigmatized as sad and scary places, if not worse. Yet behind the barred windows of Kyiv’s Ivan Pavlov Mental Hospital, jazzier entertainment than television or dominos takes place. To encourage the therapeutic values of art, the institution – commonly known as Pavlovka – has brought in a group of amateur musicians from Norway to play jazz. Æ22 Maryna Nesterchuk, the sowing teacher of Pavlovka (standing), seen during a class on Nov. 4. (Oleksiy Boyko)
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Foreign marriages wipe out stereotypes, enrich culture I attended a wedding in London last week. Meeting the bride’s father, Oleksandr, on the plane, I thought we would share a happy chat about his Ukrainian daughter getting married. I expected him to be somewhat sad, yet happy, about his child leaving Ukraine given the decrepit state of economic and political affairs at home. In the very least, I expected a conversation going back to the tower of Babel – that famous story from Genesis – and relevance to developments in Ukraine, Russia and the United Kingdom. But Oleksandr maintained that people should stay where they were born and stick to their genetic fate. He used the “physicsâ€? of language to explain it. Every time you use a word, it whispers a little story, he said. These little tales help us understand our own history and mentality. An expert in etymology and professor of law, he started with the word “time.â€? It comes from Latin tempus, which means progression, pace and speed. The Russian word for time (vremya) derives from vereteno or a spindle, he said. Digging further we arrive at varta ma, which means the sun in Sanskrit. So, in Russia, people think of time as something that follows a pretty predictable routine. It’s up in the morning and down in the evening, just like the sun. In the West, however, tempus is something that streams ahead. Furthermore, when you take the Ukrainian word for time (chas), it comes from a word chastyna or a particle of something. Ukrainians then think of time as something that doesn’t progress. It’s even worse than a Russian sunny wheel. Ukrainian time is always the same. According to Oleksandr, his daughter’s Ukrainian-Russian genes may get a little confused mixing up with the groom’s chemistry. And in the greater scheme of the universe, the pendulum should follow its own verified path. We could, of course, argue back quoting success stories of the immigrant nations, such as the U.S. But Oleksandr also seemed to have a point. He then moved on to space. When you know your etymology, this word should immediately summon you back to the Roman Empire when soldiers were driving wedges between certain intervals, or spatiums, into the ground. The Western brain then thinks of the space as it does of Æ20
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Art-Kyiv Contemporary, an annual art fair held in Kyiv which brings street and gallery works from across the globe, will be in full swing this weekend. Famous artists, critics, and collectors converge during this annual gathering to shock and woo with the latest tendencies in contemporary art. The fair is a commercial event so you can buy art from up and coming modern artists. Swiss graffiti street artist Harald Naegeli – nearly taken to prison for his work once, presents his art, which some may call vandalism. Neon light installations from German artistic duo Molitor&Kuzmin will be spread across some 16 square meters. British graffiti artist Banksy, famous for his provocative political and social art commentary, will also present his work. One of his talent enigmas is that he keeps his identity secret. At the festival, you can see his documentary only “Exit Through the Gift Shop.” Large collections of Ukrainian modern art will be available to view and purchase. Nov. 8-14, 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. at Mystetsky Arsenal culture and museum complex, 12–14, Lavrska St. Tickets: Hr 30. www.art-kyiv.com, www.artarsenal.in.ua “Exit through the gift shop” on Nov. 12, 13, 14 at 12 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. Tickets: Hr.30.
Film festivals just keep mushrooming in Kyiv this autumn. The British film festival is next with five fresh works to ravish. A green alien dressed like a royal guard of honor appears on the cover of a promotional leaflet setting the stage for cinema extraordinaire. The festival marks its 10th anniversary in Ukraine this year.
Nov. 15, Monday
Todes ballet An orgy of colors, light and energy will burst open Todes, the modern ballet group, hits the stage in Kyiv. Acrobatic stunts combined with vivid choreography made Todes one of the most famous dancing troupes in Eastern Europe. Casting first dancers in Russia in the late ‘80s, choreographer Alla Dukhova picked the name Todes for them, which means a death spiral in ice-skating. This describes Todes dancing perfectly: Some 200 dancers take their bodies to extreme and redefine dancing. Capitalizing on the troupe’s success, Dukhova opened dancing schools all over Eastern Europe. You may think of joining one after seeing the Monday show. Nov. 15, 7 p.m., Palats Ukraina, 103 Velyka Vasylkivska St., www.todes.biz, Tickets: 120 – 800
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Turn off your stereo and come listen to best Italian pop classics live in Kyiv. Legendary Toto Cutugno, 67, will perform his very famous “L’Italiano (Lasciatemi Cantare)” among other soulful hits and songs he wrote for Mireille Mathieu, Dalida and Joe Dassin. Salvatore Cutugno, who was called simply Toto since his childhood, was born in Toscana. He began his musical career drumming in local bands. Soon his talent was noticed by popular French-American singer Joe Dassin, and Cutugno started writing music to Dassin’s French lyrics. The presence of another Italian celebrity singer and actor, Andriano Celentano, will be felt during the concert. His son Giacomo will sing his father’s famous hits written by Cutugno. Vocalist Annalisa Minetti, winner of Sanremo music festival in 1998, will also join the celebrity duo. Nov. 19, 7 p.m., Palats Ukraina, 103 Velyka Vasylkivska St., Tickets: Hr 100 – 1750
British film festival Nov. 11 - 17 Mystical science fiction comedy “Skeletons” by Nick Whitfield won the Best New Film award this June at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Both queer and funny, the film presents two intelligent blacksuit workers who have a strange job of revealing and removing some bad and painful memories from people’s minds. However, the exorcists discover their own skeletons in the cupboards, which may just turn everything upside down. Friday, Nov. 12, 16 at 7 p.m., Nov.14 at 11 p.m., 5 Horodetskoho St, www.kino-ukraina.com.ua, Tickets: Hr 40
Comedy “Tamara Drewe” is a great chance to contrast and compare. Director Stephen Frears brings his female lead, a young newspaper journalist, back to her village in the rural English countryside. An ugly duckling in childhood, Drewe comes back as a femme fatale – not without the magic of some plastic surgery, of course. Torn between two lovers, she becomes a center of gossip. Saturday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m., 5 Horodetskoho St, www.kinoukraina.com.ua, Tickets: Hr 40
“Boogie Woogie” by Duncan Ward is a comedy of manners. London’s contemporary art scene sets the stage for beggars and choosers in this world of creative chaos. Artists, collectors, and dealers fight for the works of art. At each other’s throat, they often expose human ugliness at its best. Thursday, Nov. 11, 15 at 9:10 p.m., Nov.12, 13 at 11 p.m., Nov. 14 at 7 p.m., 5 Horodetskoho St, www.kino-ukraina.com.ua, Tickets: Hr 40
Animated film “The Illusionist” by Sylvain Chomet is based on the 1956 story by Jacques Tati, the French mime, director and actor. The action takes place in late 1950 in Scotland. A French illusionist travels to Scotland to find some work. When he meets a young woman who sincerely believes in his magic, life plays a trick on him. Thursday, Nov. 11 at 11 p.m., Nov. 14, 17 at 9:10 p.m., 5 Horodetskoho St, www.kino-ukraina.com.ua, Tickets: Hr 40
A romantic comedy “My Last Five Girlfriends” by Julian Kemp is based on Alain De Botton’s book, “Essays in Love.” After another break-up, a 30-year-old neurotic Londoner Duncan decides to poll his last five girlfriends to see where he goes wrong in his relationship. He has to travel around a bit in London, Paris and Madrid to accomplish his mission. Friday, Nov. 12, 13, 16 at 9:10 p.m., Nov. 15, 17 at 7p.m., 5 Horodetskoho St, www.kino-ukraina.com.ua, Tickets: Hr 40
Ukrainian song and dance at their best If you have been living in Ukraine for a while and still don't know about the Veryovka choir, you’ve probably been living under a rock all this time. Named after famous composer and conductor Hryhoriy Veryovka, the group razzles and dazzles with its quintessential ethnic Ukrainian singing and dancing. Formed some 60 years ago, it has been touring the world, collecting awards along the way. Dressed in traditional Ukrainian costumes, some 100 performers will sing folk songs and time-tested world classics in their new program “Flower of the Fern.” According to Ukrainian folk culture, the fern – a flowerless plant – blossoms once a year, during the July 6 Ivana Kupala holiday. As legend has it, you will get rich if you find the flower. We can’t guarantee you find money at the concern hall, but the performance will enrich your evening. Nov. 12, 7 p.m., Palats Ukraina, 103 Velyka Vasylkivska St., www.veryovka. kiev.ua. Tickets: 60 – 500
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Live Music ZHOVTEN 26 Konstyantynivska St., 205-5951 www.zhovten-kino.kiev.ua Soul Kitchen Nov. 12, 15-17 at 2:10 p.m., 9:40 p.m. Nov. 13-14 at 9:40 p.m. Nov. 12 at 2:20 p.m. Nov. 13 at 1:15 p.m. Nov. 14 at 11:50 a.m. Nov. 15 at 2:25 p.m. Nov. 16 at 3 p.m. Nov. 17 at 2:55 p.m. Room in Rome Nov. 12, 15-17 at 7:40 p.m., 9:30 p.m. Nov. 13-14 at 5:50 p.m., 7:40 p.m., 9:30 p.m.
The scene from ‘Room in Rome,’ which tells the story of a lesbian relationship. (www.serialov.org.) ROOM IN ROME Language: English with Ukrainian subtitles Drama/Spain (2010) Directed by Julio Medem Starring Elena Anaya, Natasha Yarovenko, Enrico Lo Verso Russian girl Natasha, who was on vacation in Rome, is preparing to get married soon. The night before her departure to Moscow, she meets with Alba, who invites her to the hotel room. Natasha agrees and dives into experiencing her sexuality. Apart from having sex, the girls share secrets, and in the morning realize that they’ve developed a pretty strong bond. The film is a cinema adaptation of MatiasBize’s novel “In Bed,” where main characters were a man and woman share careless fun. RYAN’S DAUGHTER Language: English with English subtitles Drama/Romance. UK (1970) Directed by David Lean Starring Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones, John Mills During the World War I, Rosie Ryan lives in a small Irish village on the coast. The daughter of a local innkeeper and the wife of a dull schoolteacher, Ryan has an affair with a young British officer. He arrives to investigate the connection between the Irish army and German troops. The film is a flexible adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary. Despite the critical reviews and commercial failure, it won two Oscars for Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Actor. PUISQUE NOUS SOMMES NÉS Language: French with Ukrainian subtitles Documentary. France (2008) Directed by Jean Pierre Duret, Andréa
Santana The film follows the lives of two teenagers Cocada and Nego in the North East of Brazil. They want to explore the world out there but are stuck between farming and working at the local gas station. Boys make so little money they often end up hungry. Cocada dreams of becoming a truck driver. So when he meets long-distance driver Mineiro, Cocada finds a father-figure in him. Nego’s life isn’t very exciting either: He doesn’t go to school and works in the field all day. The only hope for them is to escape to Sao Paulo. COSAS QUE HACEN QUE LA VIDA VALGA LA PENA Language: Spanish with Russian or Ukrainian subtitles Comedy/Drama. Spain (2004) Directed Manuel Gomez Pereira Starring Ana Belen, Eduard Fernandez, Maria Pujalte, Jose Sacristan Hortensia is an unhappy middle-aged woman working in the employment agency. Her husband leaves her for a young mistress. She has no hope for a new love until a nice young man George shows up in her office searching for work. He is persuaded that this particular day will start his new life, and Hortensia can help him with that. A witty and funny romantic comedy about a second chance in love for those over 40. DUE DATE Language: English Comedy. USA (2010) Directed by Todd Phillips Starring Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Monaghan, Jamie Foxx, Juliette Lewis The wife of a big boss from Los Angeles is about to give birth to their first child. But
THE MASTER CLASS CINEMA CLUB 34 Mazepy St., 594-1063, www.masterklass.org/eng Cosasquehacenque la vidavalga la pena Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. Ryan’s Daughter Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. BUTTERFLY ULTRAMARINE 1 Uritskoho St., 206-0362, www.kino-butterfly.com.ua Due Date Nov. 12-18 at 9:40 p.m. BUDYNOK KINO 6 Saksaganskogo St., 287-7557 Puisque Nous SommesNés Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. future Daddy, Peter Highman, played by sexy Robert Downey Jr., may not see it. The only chance for Highman to get home on time is to join a crazy nerd actor Ethan Tremblay. This horribly mismatched pair tries to cross a desert and not kill each other on the way. SOUL KITCHEN Language: German with Ukrainian subtitles Comedy. Germany (2009) Directed by Fatih Akin Starring Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, BirolUnel Greek chef ZinosKazantsakis runs a dilapidated restaurant on the outskirts of Hamburg. A couple of regulars help keep it afloat, but it’s not enough to survive. Kazantsakis’ personal life also lacks excitement. His free spirited brother is released from prison. His friend tries to steal his eatery by setting the Greek up with sanitary and tax inspections. His girlfriend breaks up with him to make things even worse. Feeling his lowest low, he thinks that the only way out of it is to hire a new chef. The movie won Best Film Prize and Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Moldovan band Cuibul. (www.cuibul.com) ART CLUB 44 44B Khreshchatyk St., 279-4137, www.club44.com.ua Concerts traditionally start at 8 – 10 p.m. Nov. 12 Grazhdanin Topinambur, Hr 50; Beathoven, Hr 50 Nov. 13 Red Rocks, Hr 50 Nov. 14 Cuibul (Moldova) Nov. 15 Kuka ta Banda, free admission Nov. 16 Autumn Jazz Nights Open Mic, Hr 40 Nov. 17 Angie Nears, Hr 20 Nov. 18 Balkan Party, Hr 20 DOCKER’S ABC 15 Khreshchatyk St., 278-1717, www.docker.com.ua Concerts traditionally start at 9:30-10 p.m. Nov. 12 Red Rocks, Ruki-v-Briuki, Hr 50 Nov. 13 Mad Heads XL, Angie Nears, Hr 70 Nov. 14 Animals Session, free admission Nov. 15 Second Breath, free admission Nov. 16 Tres Deseos Latino Party, Hr 20 Nov. 17 Rockin’ Wolves, Hr 30 Nov. 18 Vpershe Chuiu, Hr 40 BOCHKA PYVNA ON KHMELNYTSKOHO 4B-1 Khmelnytskoho St, metro Teatralna, 390-6106, www.bochka.com.ua Concerts traditionally start at 9-10 p.m. Nov. 12 VIA Zhiguli, Jake Box, Carte Blanche, Hr 40 Nov. 13 Che Che, True Colors, Tartila, Hr 30 Nov. 14 InTim, TheLen, Krem-Briule,
Hamlet&Co, Hr 40 Nov. 16 Bochka Jack Pot 1/8: Superdivka vs. Stereoplen, Hr 30 Nov. 17 Hip-Hop Wednesday: Deti Megapolisa, Killa a.k.a Kil, Geraldika and others, Hr 30 Nov. 17 Student Day Party: G Sound, free admission for full-time students PORTER PUB 3 Mazepy St., 280-1996, www.porter.com.ua Concerts traditionally start at 7.30 p.m. Nov. 12 Ratov Nov. 13 Brown Sugar Nov. 17 Ivan Bliuz Nov. 18 Dikie Liudi Other live music clubs: PIVNA NO.1 ON BASEYNA, 15 Baseyna St., 287-44-34, www.pivna1.com.ua JAZZ DO IT 76A Velyka Vasylkivska St., 599-7617, http://jazz-doit.com.ua DRAFT 1/2 Khoryva St., metro Kontraktova Ploshcha, 463-7330. KHLIB CLUB 12 Frunze St, www.myspace.com/xlibclub CHESHIRE CAT 9 Sklyarenko St., 428-2717. O’BRIEN’S 17A Mykhaylivska St., 279-1584. DAKOTA 1 4G Heroyiv Stalinhrada St., 468-7410). U KRUZHKI (12/37 Dekabrystiv St., 562-6262).
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Lama sings, casts prophecies and dislikes Ukrainian pop scene Lama records a video for the song “Hold me” in Kyiv on March 11. (Phl)
BY I RY N A P RY MAC H YK PRYMACHYK@KYIVPOST.COM
In ancient Sumerian culture, Lama is a goddess connecting people and gods. In modern Ukrainian culture, Lama is a singer weaving Eastern philosophies into her Ukrainian songs. Natalia Dzenkiv, a.k.a. Lama, landed at Ukraine’s music stage with her song “Airplane” only four years ago. But her Indian bindi, loose-fitting clothes and pop-rock songs made her stand out from the scene dominated by stilettos and short skirts. In 2007, she beat iconic bands such as VV and Okean Elzy to MTV Europe Music Awards in Munich as the best Ukrainian artist. She writes her own lyrics and music and is a bit of a recluse when it comes to celebrity night crawls. Meeting up with the Kyiv Post on a recent Saturday morning, Lama, 32, appeared to have more than what we see of her onstage. Gypsies, vegetarianism and prophetic dreams were among many things Dzenkiv shared during an interview in a simple Japanese restaurant in the middle of Kyiv's main street, Khrechshatyk.
“My parents were shocked how I managed to get into all of this mess so fast,” Lama said, smiling. She arrived on foot with no bodyguard or producer. It was a pleasant surprise. Born to an artistic family, Dzenkiv was raised by her grandmother, as her parents were often touring with an Ivano-Frankivsk Hutzul band. In music school, she studied piano and would “often make teachers laugh at her crazy improvisations of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart,” she recalled. She soon started skipping classes to play piano. It was American singer Jon Bon Jovi’s concert in Germany that changed her life. “I felt numb from astonishment with his music. I understood that life is too short to waste on getting scientific degrees,” Lama said. And so she skipped high-level music schooling, opting intsead to tune into her “emotions.” Her heart, however, first took her to a gypsy camp. At 17, Dzenkiv got married. “It was love at first sight. He was a gypsy [Roma], seven years older than me. I visited my friend in the mountains, where I met him. On the very
Lama performs a tantric dance rehearsing choreography for her third album on June 18. (Courtesy)
first day we met, he proposed to me and I agreed,” Lama said. “I had a lot of long colorful concert gypsy skirts. I took all of them from home and we had a traditional gypsy wedding. We used to live in his ‘kibitka’
[nomad tent], riding through the forests and fields. It was all rock-and-roll.” The marriage, however, lasted only a year and a half. She got tired of roaming, and he couldn’t live in the city. Lama got back to singing in her music
www.kyivpost.com band “Magic” in Ivano-Frankivsk. “Magic,” however, had little star power. In 2006, Dzenkiv formed a new band “Lama” after she saw a Tibetan monk in her dream. She also took Lama as her stage name, which she said means defense. The size of Australian Kylie Minogue, Lama does look like she may need some protection with her 154 centimeters height. She says she gets it from various religions. “I have my own inner philosophy, which entails Christian, Indian, Vedic and Tibetan cultures. I visit the Krishna temple in Kyiv regularly to watch their ceremonies. I’m not trying to promote neither Buddhism nor any other religion, but I just feel there is a God above me and it does not matter what his name is,” Lama said. Through her original last name – Dzenkiv – Lama also claims to connects with Buddhism. “Zen” means meditation. During concerts, she paints a bindi, or a third eye in Hinduism, on her forehead to pronounce the connection. Her dreams, however, seem to be her best conductors to other worlds. “Strange things happen to me daily. My grandmother, who died in 1994, comes to me in my dreams and gives advice,” Lama said. “When something [bad] is going to happen, I see prophetic dreams.” Lama said she dreamt the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, whose plane crashed on April 10 in Russia. “Four months before the tragedy, I had a dream where I found myself in an airport talking to a politician who had been late for the fatal flight. I remember him saying that his wife was there and all their government.” Music notes also sometimes come to her at night. Working on her third album, she combines Indian tunes with Hutzul rhythms. None of that, however, seems to earn her much money unless she starts mainstream promotion and networking at glam parties. “In Europe singers earn money by selling CDs and from touring. In Ukraine though all music is downloaded from the Internet for free, and big tours are not an easy thing to do. To earn money from private parties you have to be a partygoer, which I am definitely not. I am not going to be a clown in front of everybody. I think it is awful to come to a party just to show off your labels and pretend you are having fun,” Lama said. And so she keeps writing and singing in Ukrainian, meditating and dancing Tantric dances bucking the mainstream trend, and yet, feeling quite happy about it. For more information, see www. lama.com.ua Kyiv Post staff writer Iryna Prymachyk can be reached at prymachyk@kyivpost. com
Western and Eastern mentalities complement each other Æ17 time – a road that goes ahead marked by polls. If I have not confused you yet, imagine Russian prostranstvo. When you dissect it, it’s a product of three words: progress, sides and creativity. To make your life easier, think of Russian space as a circle with sun rays beaming out creatively in various directions. In other words, Russians are lost in space exploring every possible direction out there. In Ukrainian, space is prostir, which is almost the same as in the Russian language but without the creative bit. So in a Ukrainian head, space is perceived as a circle with sun rays pointing in. To cut it short, we are again in conflict with Western mentality, where Roman soldiers are building
their space moving ahead. Ukrainians, though, seem to always go back where they started. How true if you apply this formula to our politics. You can probably tell that my head was spinning by the end of the flight. But I landed with a very different conclusion than the bride’s father. Anastasia, who’s the wife of Luis now, has written her own little tale blending Eastern and Western etymology quite successfully. She is not your ordinary Ukrainian girl traveling to London following that clueless notion of time and space. She was, in fact, hunted down by Bloomberg news before Luis put a ring on her finger. And I am very encouraging of their union because whatever Luis is lacking
in the creative department, Anastasia would fill in. And if she loses her sense of direction, Luis will be there like that Roman legionary on a mission to push it forward. So foreign marriages can and will work when couples can speak the same language and enrich each other’s culture through it. Doing so won't tear an umbilical cord away from their homeland. It’s fascinating if we can take an elevator back to the first floor of that imaginary Babel tower and understand each other beyond space, time and history. Kyiv Post Lifestyle Editor Yuliya Popova can be reached at popova@ kyivpost.com
Anastasia Haydulina and Luis Graham-Yooll tie the knot at the Camden Town Hall in London on Nov. 5. (Andrew Bicknell)
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Portinikov emerges as one of nation’s top journalists, offering fearless commentary BY N ATA L I A A . F E D US C HAK FEDUSCHAK@KYIVPOST.COM
The first impression one gets of awardwinning journalist Vitaliy Portnikov is that he is always in motion. He taps the table nervously as he speaks, quickly excuses himself as he picks up an incessantly ringing cell phone, and then continues an interview without having lost his train of thought. Portnikov’s manner, however, is in stark contrast to the measured and often lyrical quality of his writing, some of which has been collected in a newly-published anthology titled “Virgin Mary in a Synagogue.” It is primarily a compilation of Portnikov’s columns that appeared in the weekly newspaper Dzerkalo Tyzhnya between September 2000 and August 2006. It is perhaps this contrast of motion and depth that has helped Portnikov g as well as recwin a wide following, th the public and his ognition from both peers. 3-year-old has Today, the 43-year-old emerged as one of Ukraine’s rnalistic most critical journalistic voices. He has consistently argued the ntry need for the country pean to pursue European values and for its d a citizens to build here civil society where they create their own destiny. He has prosage moted the message rom everywhere, from book signings in Lviv ivals and to youth festivals in Kyiv. ntarHis commentaringly ies are often bitingly ine’s critical of Ukraine’s arless elite and he is fearless head in going head-to-head with politicians from
all persuasions. Portnikov’s determination to maintain journalistic integrity has sometimes caused him to part ways with colleagues and publications. But he has stayed true to his principles. “I want to have a dialogue with the reader,” Portnikov said, and that includes promoting a different point of view. “Portnikov’s columns have a strategic, but not tactical character,” renowned literary critic Ihor Mykhailyshyn wrote in the introduction to the anthology. “They are dedicated to eternal problems common to mankind, that is, those that are always real and even everywhere.” Born in Kyiv, Portnikov studied at Dnipropetrovsk University for three years, and then transferred to Moscow State University, where he received a journalism degree in 1990. It is in Moscow where he honed his jjournalistic skills. As a student he wrote for Molod Ukrainy and then later l for Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper newspapers. His job as one o of the first correspondents in the Soviet U Union’s parliamen parliament gave him direct access he empire’s e to the lead le a erss, including in leaders, men who wh helped, men and refused and refu to be b eliev ve in, its ultibelieve m ma atee dem mate demise. After Af the SSoviet ovi viet br breakup, P orttnikov wrote Portnikov for some of the fo rregion’s e gii on’s most rrespected resp re e pected p publicattions, ion ons, including includin those from fr om Poland, U Ukraine Vitaliy Portnikov's book 'Virgin Mary in a Synagogue.' (Courtesy)
ÆAnthology 'Virgin Mary in a Synagogue' is a collection of Portnikov’s columns from Dzerkalo Tyzhnya newspaper
Vitaliy Portnikov (L) with Justice Minister Oleksandr Lavrynovych during the Shuster Live talk show on April 9. (UNIAN)
and the Baltic States. As it became more difficult to work as a journalist in Russia, he returned to Ukraine several years ago. In May, Portnikov was appointed editor-in-chief of TVi, the independent TV station that had its frequencies revoked in September after complaints by U.A. Inter Media Group, the nation’s largest media group, which is partly owned by Security Service of Ukraine chief Valeriy Khoroshkovsky. The case is being appealed. He continues his long-time association with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty for the Ukrainian and Russian services. The return to Ukraine was not a return to the provinces, Portnikov said. Even during the Soviet era, he felt that Russia and Ukraine were fundamentally different. “I always sensed that when I crossed the border,” he said. The idea of a Soviet Fatherland that encompassed so many people and places was alien to him. “I did not know how the Soviet Union can be a father,” he said. “That feeling was absent.” What Portnikov intuitively felt, how-
ever, was the idea of a Europe that includes Ukraine. “For me it is clear that Europe cannot exist without Ukraine, just like you cannot have Krakow without Lviv or Budapest without Uzhhorod,” he said. “These are common traditions.” To those ends, along with political criticism, Portnikov’s works are often about connection and belonging. That is particularly true of the anthology, published by Akta. He stopped writing for Dzerkalo Tyzhnya newspaper in 2008; his columns now appear in Profil. “It is worth for every one of us to find a nation, the one before which we are responsible,” reads the cover of the simple, yet splendidly-designed Ukrainian-language anthology. “But we have earned the right to be happy and to live a meaningful life. At least next year.” Judaism has played an important role in Portnikov’s life. Its echoes are evident the moment a reader picks up Portnikov’s book. The cover features Jewish prayer shawls and symbolically important colors that speak of God and physical and intellectual purity. Portnikov grew up in a secular
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Music, art therapy help mental patients Æ17 tEven though art therapy has been around for a century or so, it is still frowned upon in Ukraine. The idea is that creative self-expression is therapeutic for everyone, including those who have a mental illness or impairment. In Ukraine’s largest psychiatric institution, however, pills are still considered better than art. “People rarely smile in this hospital. This type of event rarely happens here,” said Semyon Gluzman, one of Ukraine’s most prominent psychiatrists and human rights advocates. When trying to organize the concert in Pavlovka, Gluzman found that many of his colleagues “were not, to put it midly, enthusiastic about the idea.” Yet, on the designated jazz day, the hall filled with shy patients and curious medical personnel in white robes. The Norwegian band Kringsja Spilleri played a variety of music: from old-fashioned Soviet-like melodies to the time-tested classics. The audience immediately recognized many contemporary pieces, like ABBA songs and Joe Cocker’s “You can leave your hat on.” “I don’t want only psychiatry in these walls,” Gluzman said. The audience agreed with him on that, bursting into applause and yelling “bravo” at the end of the performance. The event was unusual, not only for them. “It was the first time we played in a mental hospital and we enjoyed it a lot,” said Bent Foyn, the trombonist. Of the 16-member band, two musicians are psychiatrists. They said they first met in a music school where they brought their children for studies some eight years ago. “Neither of us did music before that, but thanks to our children we got interested and started taking classes. We meet every week now and rehearse,” conductor Knut Noremaune said. Gluzman hopes this concert will encourage Pavlovka’s doctors to try out other modern therapies and change the hospital’s prison-like image. Founded in 1786 as a general hospital, Pavlovka became a psychiat-
Doctors from Norway give an amateur jazz concert at the Pavlovka mental hospital on Oct. 22. (Oleksiy Boyko)
Teacher Svitlana Gryshchenko demonstrates the intricate ceramic work of patients.
ric clinic during the Soviet 1930s. It gained a notoriously negative reputation because the Soviet leadership used it as a prison for many political dissidents. Accused of engaging in anti-Soviet activities, they were treated as dangerous and mentally ill patients with heavy medications and often physical violence. The clinic, while still far from the progressive steps taken by psychiatric wards in the U.S. and Europe, has brigthened up. Patients staying at the clinic today have a special center for social and psychological rehabilitation. Behind this obscure name, arts and crafts classes have been thriving for the last 10 years. In a dozen art rooms, classes are held daily. Patients make beautiful brooches, statuettes, bed linen, clothes, earrings and necklaces, among other things. Unless one is aware of their origin, it is hard to believe they were
ÆEven though art therapy has been around for a century or more, it is still frowned upon in Ukraine made by mentally-impaired amateurs. Former patient Oleksandr liked art therapy so much that he continued attending his ceramics classes even after he left the hospital. “I found a job, but molding remained my hobby,” he said, proudly showing his clay butterflies, brooches and flowers. There are dreams, perhaps, but no
real plans to sell the handiwork. “We would be happy to open a tiny shop or just supply someone with our handicrafts. But in this country it is too complicated,” said Svitlana Gryshchenko, who runs the ceramics class. She said they were afraid of tax authorities. One room away from the ceramics class, a sewing class is held. Teacher Maryna Nesterchuk said both women and men attend. “They mostly do things for themselves like clothes and bed linen. There is a man who stitches really well. Another guy is doing pillow cushions for his mother.” Nesterchuk said some of her students started sewing professionally and even found jobs in this industry after leaving Pavlovka. “When I first came to this place 10 years ago, I was scared of working with the mentally ill. But when I got to know them better, the fear dissipated. Most are nice people," she said. “Many are very talented. They just
need help and attention,” she added. Selling their work, even for small money, would make many patients in Pavlovka happy. If their crafts were labeled properly, “perhaps then our society would change its attitude towards these people [patients], and they would feel needed. That is the most important thing to them,” Nesterchuk said. For now, however, Pavlovka’s grownup pupils mold, paint and sow for charity and fellow patients in other Ukrainian cities. Despite a skeptical attitude from traditional psychiatrists, art therapists say their classes leave a tremendous impact. “We noticed that almost none of our clients in remission get hospitalized again if they attended our classes during active treatment,” said psychologist Gluzman. “It means something.” Kyiv Post stuff writer Svitlana Tuchynska can be reached at Tuchynska@ kyivpost.com
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Business clubs – 4 listings Î The Business-English Center meets on Sundays at 3 p.m. for a series of business English skills workshops. For more information, call Alex at 234-0871 or email: e-club@i.com.ua or visit www.etcentre.com.ua. Î A new gentlemen’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. Î The British Business Club in Ukraine meets every Saturday for business discussion and once every month for networking. Membership is by invitation only and is open to individuals and companies. Please email: administrator@bbcu.com.ua. Î 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 at www.bold.com.ua.
Public speaking – 6 listings Î 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 Lesya Ukrainky Street, metro station Pecherska. For detailed information, please, check our website www.dniprohills.org.ua Î European Business Association Toastmasters Club invites 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 more information, contact Svetlana Nesterenko at lana_svk@ukr.net or call 067 220 77 55. More information can also be found at: www. ebatmc.blogspot.com. Î 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 St. at 7 p.m. Please check our website www.toptalkers.org Î 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 for membership, Anton Stetsenko at 093-609-5161. Î 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 see www.toastcrackers.kiev.ua. Î Talkers Toastmasters Club 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 website at arttalkers.wordpress. com, call 096-565-6229 or e-mail: arttalkers@gmail.com
Support groups – 5 listings Î Divorce mediation, commercial mediation, consulting on diagnostics of conflict resolution in organization. Ukrainian Mediation Center, www.ukrmedation.com.ua Please contact Oksana Kondratyuk: 066-758-66-44, delo2@i.ua. Î Individual consultations, psychological support in divorce, family relations, stress management, health issues, relaxation, self-esteem, personal development. Call Elena: 097-294-6781. Î Alcoholics Anonymous English-speaking group meets Saturday/Sunday at 12.30 p.m. and Tuesday/Thursday at 7 p.m. at various locations. Contacts: aakyiv@ukr.net, 096-460-0137 (friend of Bill) for details of meeting location. Î Counseling/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). See www.hohel.kiev.ua or call 050-595-3686 between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. ĂŽ Individual psychological counseling for Russian and English speakers. Family issues, mood disorders, anxiety, depression. Psychological Rehabilitation & Resocialization Center. Call Elena Korneyeva, 050-573-5810, between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., or e-mail: kornyeyeva@rambler.ru.
Social, sport and health clubs – 2 listings Î Volleyball group, expats and locals, seeks new players, male or female. Skill levels, advanced beginner to intermediate. We meet on Sundays, 11 a.m., near Livoberezhna metro. For more info, send email to vbkiev@gmail.com Î 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 the website at www.h3.kiev.ua.
International clubs – 9 listings Î Welcome to the friendly atmosphere of a French-speaking 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. Î 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 visit: http://studentembassy.org.ua. Î 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 067296-5672 or n_radov@yahoo.com. Î The International Women’s Club of Kyiv (IWCK) welcomes women from around the world to join our support network and participate in our extensive soci al 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. Î The Rotaract Club Kyiv meets on Thursdays at 7 p.m. at the Ukrainian Educational Center, Prospect Peremohy,#30, apt. 82. For more information, please email: president@rotaract-kyiv. org.ua or visit our website www.rotaract-kyiv.org.ua. Î 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. Î 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 St. 22. For a map and further information please consult our website at: http://kmrclub.org. Î 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.
English clubs – 11 listings Î English-Russian Conversation Club for adults. People of different ages are invited for international meetings. Mini-groups, individual approach. Making new friends. Conversational trainings. email: engrusglobe@i.ua
Î Sprout Christian International School is looking for native English-speaking volunteers who are enthusiastic and love working with children to help in pre-school and English club starting coming September. For more details please call ASAP: Natalie Istomina: +067 501-0406, +093 798-9840. Î Wave Language School offers free English speaking clubs to the public. Join us on weekends from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. or 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturdays and 1 p.m.– 3 p.m. or 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays. Please contact us by email if you are interested: info@wavelanguageschool.com. We hope to see you soon – everybody is welcome. Î 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/ 229-2838. Î 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. to 7:30 p.m., Sat noon until 1:30 p.m. Î Native English speakers. Meet the best and the brightest in Kyiv, well-educated, ambitious, and talented young people 20-30 years old. 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 at jmt260@hotmail.com for more information. Î Free speaking English club in Irpen on Saturdays at Lan School. Call 093-623-3071. Î 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 or call 066-767-4407. Î 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 Î Are you a native English speaker? We are glad to invite you to join our English-speaking club. Call 067-620-3120 (Olga) or e-mail Olga.Bondar@atlantm.com.ua Î Free English/German conversation club on Sundays. Druzhbi Narodiv 18/7, office No. 3. Everyone is welcome. Tel: 529-75-77.
People in need – 4 listings ĂŽ Bohdan Shinder is only five years old but has already spent more than a fifth of his life in a hospital. His diagnosis is abdominal cancer. The boy has already undergone numerous treatments but a comprehensive examination revealed residual metastases in his bones. His last chance is MIBG-therapy. On Nov. 29, the clinic of Goethe University in Frankfurt is ready to operate him. The cost of the treatment is 20,000 euros. Bohdans' family needs your support to save their child. Contacts: Mother, Elena Shinder +38 068 172-6045 Father, Anatoliy Shinder +38 068 205-1621 Anna Zakharina, volunteer +38 067 548 40 40 Website: http://www.donor.org.ua/index.php?module=arnews &act=show&c=1&id=7828 Bank details for money transfers: ‘PrivatBank’ transit account 29240825525601 â€˜ĐœĐ¤Đžâ€™ Code: 315405 â€˜Đ—ĐšĐ&#x;О’ Code: 22772795 Payment purpose: for transfering to the card account 4405885013938268 PrivatBank Receiver: Shinder A.M. Tax code: 2675302415 You can also make transfers in Euro, dollars, roubles, web
money, yandex with the help of Charity Fund 'Alisa'. Please indicate surname of the child you support: http://www.alica. kiev.ua/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=3& Itemid=62 ĂŽ Maksym Nalivkin Maksym Nalivkin, 12 years old, needs your help. The boy suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and further subarachnoid hemorrhage, which led to three brain surgeries and constant artificial pulmonary ventilation. Since March, the boy has been held at the resuscitation department. For two months, he’s been out of coma. There are slight positive changes that give hope. He still needs long-term rehabilitation; however, his family already spent their savings on treatment. In case you have any possibility to support them, Maksym’s family would much appreciate it. Contacts: Mother Elena Nalivkina – 099-625-2475 Father Arkadiy Nalivkin – 050-318-5499; also: 055-222-2806; email: nag.box@gmail.com; skype: arkady_g.nalivkin; ICQ: 8423832 Webpage: http://nag.pp.net.ua/ Bank details for hryvnia transfer: Bank: Đ§ĐľŃ€Đ˝ĐžĐźĐžŃ€Ń ĐşĐžĐľ ОтдоНонио ĐĽĐľŃ€Ń ĐžĐ˝Ń ĐşĐžĐłĐž фиНиаНа ÂŤĐ&#x;риватйанк ĐœĐ¤Đž Code: 305299 ОКĐ&#x;Đž Code: 14360570 Account: 29244825509100 Purpose of payment: 4627085825848787, Nalivkina Elena Nikolaevna, Đ˜Đ?Đ?: 2596602804 Maksym’s family also appeals for advice - any useful contacts of rehabilitation professionals, recovery programs, as well as charity organizations or grant programs for such cases. ĂŽ Nastya Dytiyatkova is only one year old. Her diagnosis is double sensorineural hearing loss, which means that she can’t hear the sounds that will enable her grow as a normal child. Currently there is only one solution: Cochlear implant. It will allow the baby hear voices of her parents and learn how to speak. This kind of implant could be obtained free of charge, but the state can afford only 20 such operations per year. We are at the end of a 500-patients queue, but doctors say we must operate immediately. The surgery costs 23,000 euro, but it’s more than we can afford. Please, help our family and baby Nastenka hear the world like we all do. Contacts: Nastya's Parents: Roman Dityatkov Tel. +3066-26577-13, Galina Dityatkova Tel. +3066-112-91-71 Website: www. help.mama.biz.ua Bank details: Bank of beneficiary: PrivatBank Code 299781850 MFO 305299 Account: 26200603467917 Beneficiary: Dytyiatkova Halyna Payment Details: non-repayable financial help for Dytiatkova Halyna Onyx Card Bank of beneficiary: Raiffeisen Bank Aval Code 22761811 MFO 352093 Account: 26251898 Card # : 9890 0900 1431 2073 Beneficiary: Dytiatkiva Halyna Payment Details: non-repayable financial help for Dytiatkova Halyna ĂŽ Vanya Chornozub 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 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: 067-234-1225 Details for money transfers: PrivatBank Account: 29244825509100 Bank branch location code: 305299 Code: 14360570 Details of payment: card replenishment: 4405885012914724, Chornozub Ă€.Ă€., support for son’s treatment
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Editor’s Note: The Kyiv Post continues its “World in Ukraine” series with a look at Poland, which celebrated Independence Day on Nov. 11. The newspaper will highlight Ukraine’s ties with Kazakhstan on Dec. 17.
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Condoms, flowers, stories from Poles in Ukraine BY K AT E RY N A G R U S HEN KO GRUSHENKO@KYIVPOST.COM
Ukraine and Poland share many things -- similar languages, kindred histories and now a major football tournament. Newspaper editor Stanislaw Panteluk, 55, has ferreted out many stories that unite the two nations for the pages of his Polish newspaper in Ukraine, Dziennik Kiowski, in the last two decades. Panteluk’s personal story, however, is perhaps one of the best illustrations of the turbulent history of PolandUkraine. On the orders of Joseph Stalin, Panteluk’s family was exiled from their native town of Kosiv in IvanoFranskivsk Oblast. That Carpathian region was a part of European empires for centuries, until it went under Soviet control in the late 1930s. Panteluk’s parents were put on a train to Kazakhstan in 1939, when hundreds of thousands of victims across the former Soviet Union were accused of various political crimes or just didn’t fit the profile of a Russian Communist. “A neighbor was at odds with my father, so he told the authorities [about our] Polish roots and they sent us right out,” recalled Panteluk the beginning of a family drama. They were able to return home only in 10 years after Stalin’s death. Born in Kazakhstan, Panteluk was then only one-year-old. Having majored in Polish philology, Panteluk spent 20 years working for Intourist, the largest Soviet travel agency. He was taking Polish tourists across Siberia, the Caucasus region, Crimea and other parts of Russia and Ukraine. In between trips, he sometimes did freelance interpreting for Polish and Soviet political leaders. When Intourist dissolved together with the Soviet Union, Panteluk started writing for Dziennik Kiowski, which is translated as the Kyiv Diary. During the chaos of the early 1990s, Ukraine stopped receiving Polish books and periodicals, so a group of five ambitious Ukrainians with Polish roots decided to fill the niche with their own paper in Polish. “We wanted to write about Poland in Polish, but gradually the paper refocused on covering news of the Polish community in Ukraine,” Panteluk said. It was then one of the first business ventures promoting Poland in Ukraine. “At the beginning it was a period
Polish dancers perform on Aug. 12 at a Polish festival in Poznan, Poland. Ukrainian artists also performed at the event. (www.flickr. com/artofcourse, Artur Firlet)
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of euphoria when we received letters from people with Polish poetry in them. Everybody was happy that they can speak the language freely and be open about their heritage,” he said. In a couple of years, however, euphoria was swept away by the reality of the falling economy and increasing lawlessness of 1990s. Many ethnic Poles decided it was time to make their way back home around that time. With Poland entering the European Union, immigration became more difficult. The pride of being a Pole, however, soared and “motivates those in Ukraine to succeed in life,” said Panteluk. Operating in a small office with a team of five writers on a very limited budget, Panteluk sees himself “as a chronicler of the Polish diaspora in Ukraine.” He still remembers the time when the paper had no money at all and some Polish expatriates were pitching in to help it survive. Jerzy Konik, 56, one of Ukraine’s richest expatriates, was one of them. The chief editor remembers covering Konik’s court disputes in Ukraine, which lasted a decade, and said that the businessman couldn’t find justice in Ukraine’s legal system.
Yet despite economic uncertainties, Konik, a native of Krakow, stayed behind and keeps storming Ukraine’s business peaks. The Kyiv Post estimated his fortune to $24 million in the rating of Ukraine’s Most Successful Expats in the Oct. 8 issue. Konik came to Ukraine in 1988 with flower decorations for an exhibition of Polish goods. Diluting a poor Soviet choice of roses and carnations with freesias and chrysanthemums, he inked more contracts than any other Polish participant. “I then realized that Ukraine has a great potential for me,” said Konik. He founded Ukrflora, which claims a half of Ukraine’s flower market share. Konik sold it five years ago, along with six other companies he founded and developed. A condom factory, however, stands out among his many business ventures. The latex products factory that makes Perfekt condoms was built in Lviv region in close proximity to Poland in 2003. He said it was “the scariest business he has ever been involved with” as it was hard to find condom specialists to create a safe and high quality product. “But knock on wood, we haven’t had any complaints [yet],”
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he said smiling. In order to help Polish investors discover Ukraine, Konik created the Union of Polish Entrepreneurs 12 years ago. “It makes it easier for the Polish capital to enter Ukraine. And Poles can meet compatriots who they can go out with for a beer,” he said. “Most of the business deals are made in this informal
drinking atmosphere. Some Western European businessmen may be afraid to admit it, but Ukrainians and Poles are proud of it.” The two nations have a similar mentality, said Konik explaining his success in Ukraine. Kyiv Post staff writer Kateryna Grushenko can be reached at grushenko@kyivpost.com
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November 12, 2010
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Polish representative: ‘Poland is ready to help Ukraine as long as you are interested’ BY K AT E RY N A G R U S HEN KO GRUSHENKO@KYIVPOST.COM
Pawel Gebski, 38, Head of the economic section in the Polish embassy, started his job three years ago. Coincidentally, Gebski was appointed on exactly the same day that Ukraine and Poland won the bid to host the Euro 2012 football championship. Gebski started his career in the Polish Economic Ministry and worked at the Warsaw Industrial development bureau of the United Nations as an expert on foreign investment. During his interview with the Kyiv Post, Gebski tells what Ukraine needs to get on the European Union track, attract foreign investors and get where Poland is today economically and socially. The topic of football also made the discussion. Kyiv Post: What are the major areas of economic cooperation between Ukraine and Poland? Pawel Gebski: We have a history of long and high-level cooperation, both on the governmental level and in the private sector. Our trade reached $9 billion in 2008, which made Poland Ukraine’s third largest trade partner. Poland is also Ukraine’s 12th biggest investor, with $870 million already invested in the country. PKO BP bank is considered the largest investor in the country after buying Ukraine’s Kredobank. Last year, it invested $179 million in its daughter company in Ukraine. Polish insurance company PZU is also advancing in Ukraine’s market. The number of small and mediumsized Polish companies in Ukraine is very big, especially in neighboring Lviv and Volyn regions. They work in many sectors, notably in construction and furniture production. In recent years, Poles built the Barlinek plant. It produces wood floorings in Vinnytsia region. Another plant, Cersanit, produces ceramics and bathroom equipment. KP: Why are Polish entrepre-
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neurs attracted to Ukraine? PG: Poles like Ukraine for its big territory, population and geographic proximity. Moreover, we don’t have any mental or language barriers. Ukrainians usually understand Polish and Poles understand the Ukrainian language. Poles see a huge growth potential in Ukraine. KP: Some Polish businesses left Ukraine during the economic crisis. How is the situation now? PG: This is true: The crisis scared away many small businesses, especially,
Fireworks illuminate the municipal stadium during its official opening in Poznan, Poland, on Sept. 20. The Poznan stadium is the first of four stadiums in Poland to be completed for the Euro 2012 soccer championship, which will be held in Poland and Ukraine. (AP)
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in the construction sector. Big- and medium-sized Polish companies, however, stayed behind, curtailing their investments. Now Polish business evaluates the situation in Ukraine more positively than before. KP: What can be improved in Ukraine to secure better cooperation with Poland? PG: I don’t think Polish businesses are waiting for anything different from Ukraine than any other foreign investors. Bureaucracy, ambiguous laws, paralyzed courts and officials who interpret the legislation to their liking are things that turn investors away. Some Polish companies complain about their Ukrainian partners’ behavior and difficulties with returning VAT [value-added tax] in Ukraine. Government’s emission of the VAT bonds has partially solved the problem. There are some positive signals as well. From a business point of view, the most important issue is political stability. And it is the case with Ukraine now. As an embassy, we view positively the government’s reform plan. The tax code may not be the most perfect, but it’s an effort to change the situation for the better. We received some unflattering remarks about it, but since the code is still in the making, we hope that some changes for the better would be made.
If Ukraine pursues European integration further, it will succeed. A very important step is the free trade agreement. I know that many people in Ukraine are afraid that if they allow foreign products in, Ukrainian industries will simply die. But it should be seen as a chance and a challenge to make Ukrainian business more competitive. Ukraine will also harmonize its legislation with European laws. Poland has already done it and it made a positive effect on the economy. KP: What can bring Ukraine closer to Europe? PG: An association agreement is very important now. Ukraine should focus on obtaining the road map for the visa-free regime with Europe. In recent surveys, Poles marked the ability to travel, study and work freely in any country of the EU as the most important advantage from membership. When Poland joined the European Union, we experienced an increase in investment and trade. Yet improvement was felt even during the transformation period, before we gained membership. Ukraine’s legislation is gradually approaching European standards, but implementation remains a problem. The administration doesn’t understand, and sometimes doesn’t want to use these good laws, so to speak. Poland went through this, and it required a change in mentality. Authorities should help businesses grow, instead of squeezing more and more money out of them to fill the budget. KP: Poland has been helping Ukraine become part of the EU for a long time now. Will you maintain this policy despite an improvement in relations with Russia? PG: Poland is ready to help Ukraine as long as you are interested in it. If we improve ties with Russia, it doesn’t mean we stop working with Ukraine. We have a lot of positive experience to share with Ukraine. Both countries have a large agriculture sector. Poland has reformed it successfully, while Ukraine has yet to do so. Polish small and medium-sized businesses helped the country go though the economic crisis without major losses. In Ukraine, big businesses lay the foundation of the economy, which
Poland at a glance: • Population: 38.5 million • Religions: Roman Catholic – 90 percent, Eastern Orthodox – 1.3 percent, Protestant – 0.3 percent • GDP (purchasing power parity): $689.3 billion in 2009 • Average monthly salary: $1,000 in 2009 Ukraine-Poland economic markers: Trade turnover: $4.5 billion in 2009 Polish exports: industrial equipment, cars, chemicals, agricultural products, ceramics, furniture. Ukrainian exports: metals, ores, sunflower, grain, oil. Sources: CIA World Fact book, the Embassy of Poland in Ukraine The Independence Day of Poland On Nov. 11, Poland celebrates a rebirth of its statehood, after its territory was torn among the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany and Russia for more than 100 years. The end of World War I was marked by the armistice signed between Germany and the Allies on Nov. 11, 1918. This date is now marked as the Polish Independence Day all over the country. After the World War II, Communist authorities in Poland replaced this holiday with 1917, the Russian October Revolution, to emphasize that this event should become more important to Polish statehood. As the Communist influence waned in 1980s, people began laying flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw each Nov. 11. In 1989, the parliament reinstated the holiday officially.
is one of the reasons why Ukraine’s economy is so fragile. KP: What’s the progress on Euro 2012 preparation? PG: We have reached the stage now when our cooperation should get closer. Prior to that, we worked separately building stadiums, airports, hotels, etc. It was a big challenge for both countries. In comparison to the West, where the entire infrastructure is already in place, we had a lot to catch up with. Ukraine is ahead of Poland in terms of completing work on two stadiums. We finished our first stadium only recently, while others are still under construction. Up to 70 percent of the infrastructure is ready in our countries. We are now coordinating efforts to standardize security and medical services. We are also working to increase capacity of our borders so that fans can easily travel from Ukraine to Poland, and vice versa. Kyiv Post staff writer Kateryna Grushenko can be reached at grushenko@kyivpost.com
26 Paparazzi
November 12, 2010
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Former band member, Vera Brezhneva
From left: Eva Bushmina, Nadiya Meiher, Olena Vinnytska and Albina Dzhanabayeva
Via Gra still rocks Some of the greatest seductresses on pop stage, girls' band Via Gra celebrated their 10th anniversary with a concert on Nov. 6 at Kyiv's Palats Ukraina concert hall. Still living up to their bombshell image, three current members of the band opened the evening with popular hit "Stop, Stop, Stop." Then, one by one, ex-Via Gra singers graced the stage with old songs. The band is a Ukrainian-Russian project launched by producer Kostyantyn Meladze in 2000. His brother, famous Russian singer Valeriy Meladze performed a few songs with the hotties. Valeriy has a child with a red-haired member Albina Dzhanabayeva. Some of the ex-performers now sing solo or act in films. One of them, Svitlana Loboda, represented Ukraine in 2009 at the Eurovision Song Contest with a raunchy performance. Her song, called "Anti-Crisis Girl," was good enough for 12th spot in the contest. All in all, eight Via Gra hotties in various state of undress entertainted and aroused the audience for two hours. (Anastasia Iskritskaya)
Former Via Gra singer Anna Sedakova
Russian singer Valeriy Meladze
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Sparkling Italian wine and a big cake are prepared for the guests
One of the largest law firms in Ukraine, Asters, celebrated its 15th anniversary on Nov. 4 in style. Khanenko Museum of Western European Art in downtown Kyiv hosted the event. Partners, friends and clients of the firm attended the evening. Managing partner Oleksiy Didkovskiy was honored by the International Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine. Guests enjoyed musical performance by the Bortnyansky quartet, singer Ihor Rudy and singer Roman Bolduzyev, winner of popular show “Ukraine’s Got Talent.” Headed by eight partners, Asters team employs 55 lawyers. (Natalia Kravchuk)
Veronika Syrovatkina draws paintings on sand
Mykhailo Beylin, head of Promotion Technologies (L) and Sergiy Slyusarenko, chairman of UkrBorg's supervisory board
Armen Khachaturyan, partner of Asters law firm (L) with a guest
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November 12, 2010
A heady trip to wine country BY M A R K R AC H K E VYC H RACHKEVYCH@KYIVPOST.COM
TBILISI, Georgia – You know you’re in winemaking country when you see a statue of a womang greeting visitors, holding a bowl of gvino, overlooking the capital city from its highest hill. Called Mother of Georgia, she stands proudly in the center of Tbilisi. She is a contrast to Kyiv’s Motherland statue, who wields a vertical sword atop the west bank of the Dnipro River, appearing officious and almost overbearing. There’s plenty of wine flowing in this tiny south Caucasus republic of four million people who harvest roughly one-quarter of all the types of grapes present on earth with over five hundred varieties. It’s a fascinating place to visit for anybody interested in wine. Georgia straddles rich, centuries-old vine valleys. It has preserved not only its cultural, culinary and linguistic traditions but also the unique and original kveri technique of storing and maturing wine in which oval-shaped, clay containers are kept underground during the winemaking process. “Georgia has a lot to offer, it’s an undiscovered gem from a Western point of view. Nothing really prepared me for what I saw,” said Isabelle Legeron, an award-winning French wine taster. Legeron is the architect of a film on Georgian wine that was recently filmed for the Travel Channel. She said it has everything a tourist wants: a stunning countryside, a rich winemaking tradition, food that is traditional and ingredients that are fresh, seasonal, regional and very tasty. And any wine lover knows the nevertoo-emphasized importance of food
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when drinking the fermented grape extraction. Red wines complement Georgia’s fresh selection of cow and goat cheeses and traditional chewy yeast bread as well as the thin khachapuri cheese bread, sometimes stuffed with beans. They also go well with lamb or veal shashlik. The many different rosy white wines can be drunk alone or with raw or fried fish combined with fresh garden vegetables ranging from green onions and tomatoes, to eggplant and spinach. Legeron toured Georgia twice in July and October traveling to Kakheti in east Georgia and Guria in the west, two famous wine making regions. These areas are known for their kveri winemaking technique, the only place in the world where it’s still widely used and practiced. Most winemakers store wine in oak barrels, which Legeron
A Georgian farmer collects grapes at her vineyard in the Georgian region of Kakheti. In a country where wine making and wine drinking are deeply rooted in national culture and tradition, Kakheti is one of the important centers of wine production. (AFP)
said would compromise Georgia’s traditional method of winemaking in clay containers. “This is what can draw tourists,” Legeron said. “Georgia has one of the oldest wine pits and the last remnants of this kind of winemaking in the world.” The wine served in Georgia is characterized as mostly dry but has its own “very individual personality,” according to Legeron, who is based in London. She said the wine is tannic because much of the anti-oxidants are extracted during the winemaking process. It’s more nutritious and doesn’t need much sulfur added because the kveri
takes care of the process requiring little human intervention. The fact that wine doesn’t get adversely affected by pips and stems or chacha while being stored is due to the inverse conical shape of kveri. The pips settle and are then covered by chacha until it also sinks after fermentation is complete. As a result, a wine with character is produced. White wines made in such a way have a flamy color and are usually slightly touched with the flavor of almond, walnut and dried apple, according to the Georgian Tourism and Resorts website. Kakheti in the east leads in wine-
growing and winemaking. Nearly 50 percent of Georgia’s vineyards are situated in Kakheti. There are 120-150,000 tons of grapes picked every year in the region, having unique varieties, such as Rkatsiteli, Mtsvane, Khikhvi, Kisi, and Saperavi, among other sorts. “The wine here needs to be shouted about, it’s very high quality,” Legeron said of the wines she tasted. And Georgia is poised to capitalize on its winemaking reputation having implemented visa-free travel for North American and European Union nationals, improving roads and highways combined with a warm, mostly subtropical climate. While each year the number of foreigners entering Georgia has increased by more than 10 percent, it has a long way to go to attract more visitors. In 2009, 1.5 million foreign visitors came to Georgia, 19 percent more than the previous year, according to the Department of Tourism and Resorts of Georgia. By comparison, more than 20 million foreigners visited Ukraine in 2009, according to the state statistics committee, half of which came from Belarus and Russia. Thirty-nine thousand Ukrainians visited Georgia in 2009, while 40,000 Georgians visited Ukraine in the same year, which leaves room for increased growth and adventure. “Anyone keen to winemaking should visit Georgia, I’m planning to visit soon again and this time I’ll take more people with me,” Legeron said. The documentary will be aired on Travel Channel in more than 115 countries in March 2011. Kyiv Post writer Mark Rachkevych can be reached at Rachkevych@kyivpost.com
28 Photo Story
November 12, 2010
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On Nov. 7, Ukrainians celebrated the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Ukraine’s capital from Nazi invaders by reconstructing 1943 events at the Pirohovo motocross track in Kyiv (1). About 900 members of military and historical clubs brought in 30 pieces of military equipment to help recreate the atmosphere of Kyiv’s liberation (2,3). The guests had an opportunity to see not only Red Army soldiers in the trenches, but also true-to-life tank and air battles (4). The organizers called the reconstruction the biggest event of its kind. Kyiv’s liberation was one of the many victories gained over the Nazis, after the pivotal Stalingrad battle in Feb. 1943, the turning point in the ultimate defeat and surrender of Hitler’s forces on May 8, 1945. Initially, the 1st Ukrainian Front leadership planned to launch two strikes to liberate the capital: the key strike from the Bukryn bridgehead (80 kilometers south of Kyiv) and the other (auxiliary) strike from the Liutizh bridgehead (30 kilometers north of Kyiv). However, the Nazis were difficult to defeat in the south, so it was decided to move Ukrainian forces from the Bukryn bridgehead to Liutizh in the north, from where to launch a key strike to the south. At night, the Dnipro valley was cloaked in a thick fog, which helped Ukrainian tanks and artillery leave the Bukryn bridgehead for Liutizh along the Dnipro. On Nov. 3, 1943, the Red Army artillery, located in Liutizh, opened fire, catching the Nazis flat-footed (5). Three days later, the Hitler forces were defeated (6). The battle to liberate Kyiv cost hundreds of thousands of lives and left the city in ruins. But once the Nazis were routed, people returned and rebuilt. The city’s main street, Khreshchatyk, left in a disastrous state, was reconstructed by 1954 under the design of architect Oleksandr Vlasov. (Story by Tetyana Boychenko; photos by Yaroslav Debelyi)
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November 12, 2010
New findings break long-held stereotypes about Sheptytsky BY N ATA L I A A . F E D US C HAK FEDUSCHAK@KYIVPOST.COM
LVIV, Ukraine – Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, the religious leader who headed the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church for nearly half a century, has been misunderstood through history. Now, on the 66th anniversary of his Nov. 1, 1944, death at the age of 79, new details are emerging that challenge long-held stereotypes and provide a fuller picture of Sheptytsky’s political and civic activities as well as his views on Ukrainian statehood. “Sheptytsky was a unique leader in Ukrainian history,� said Liliana Hentosh, a Ukrainian scholar who has extensively researched the metropolitan’s life and unveiled new facts about his activities. “This was a person who can be the best example of what can be achieved by [serving] the community.� Many Ukrainians today have largely forgotten the enormous role that Sheptytsky played, not only in the lives of their countrymen who inhabited western Ukraine -- a region historically referred to as Halychyna -- in the early 1900s, but also its events, scholars said. “No matter where you look in Halychyna in the first half of the 20th century, he was person number one,� said Oksana Haiova, head of Religious Studies at the Lviv Central State Historical Archives. “People listened to and loved him.� Those faded memories have allowed stereotypes, often advanced by Soviet and Polish historians as well as Ukrainians themselves, to gain ground. As historians revisit Sheptytsky’s life,
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however, they are finding new materials that debunk long-held beliefs. One of those misconceptions is that Sheptytsky was a staunch supporter of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the political group which fought for Ukrainian national independence in the early part of the 20th century. Although Sheptytsky was a supporter of Ukraine’s national movement, he was wary of OUN and many of its leaders. His concern about the party’s radicalized message was significant enough that in 1929, Sheptytsky bought a onethird stake in Ivan Tyktor’s publishing house, one of the most important in Halychyna, said Hentosh, who recently found the document affirming the purchase. The house published children’s materials and Novy Chas, a widely read Ukrainian-language newspaper. Sheptytsky’s newspaper ownership helped the religious leader gain leverage in his battle with OUN. The organization had tried and failed to win over Sheptytsky with its radicalized agenda and had been using Novy Chas, Tyktor’s flagship newspaper, as a political tool. But Sheptytsky’s partownership of Tyktor ended all that. “Sheptytsky took the newspaper away from OUN,� Hentosh said, adding that people forget the ferocious battle that took place in Halychyna over the hearts and minds of young people, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s. “Sheptytsky fought for control over publications, especially children’s.� Sheptytsky saw the conflict with OUN partly as a generational one, but his concern about its growing influence over Ukrainian youth spurred his
desire to have some control over what was published. Born in July 1865 into an aristocratic family that saw itself more as with the Polish elite than with Ukrainians, which comprised much of the lower class, Sheptytsky received his education in Krakow and Wroclaw, where he completed his doctorate in 1888. He met with Pope Leo XIII in Italy, traveled to Kyiv, Moscow, spent several more years in study and in 1892 was ordained a priest. In 1898, Emperor Franz Joseph nominated him to fill a vacant post as the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop of Stanislawow (today’s Ivano-Frankivsk); Pope Leo XIII concurred. In 1900, Sheptytsky became Metropolitan Archbishop, leading the Eastern Rite Catholics. Early on, Sheptytsky consciously chose to serve Ruthenians, which is how ethnic Ukrainians in Halychyna identified themselves until World War I. “He thought he wanted to be a pastor for that community,� said Hentosh. “He saw God calling him to a greater goal.� Although he felt the product of two worlds, Polish and Ruthenian, Sheptytsky was not ready to think in strictly national terms at the beginning of the 20th century, Hentosh said. Sheptytsky noted in a 1908 letter to a relative that he first saw himself as a transmitter of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, where the Ruthenian and Polish components of his identity were equally important. To that end, Sheptytsky did not necessary feel Ukrainians were ready for their own state. In 1918, as the
Austro-Hungarian Empire laid on the verge of collapse, he wrote that independence from Austria would be “careless and even dangerous, and first of all disadvantageous.â€? When Ukrainians seized power in Lviv on Nov. 1, 1918, however, his initial response was satisfaction that the city was taken without bloodshed, Hentosh said. He held a special mass two days later in honor of the creation of the new Western Ukrainian National Republic and his support became unequivocal. Newly unveiled documents show the depth of Sheptytsky’s concern over the plight of western Ukrainians, particularly after WWI. Haiova said Sheptytsky’s overriding concern, was support for poor and underprivileged elements of society, such as orphans. Many lives were in catastrophic states. “Thousands of kids were left without parents,â€? Haiova said. Sheptytsky said “children don’t know how to smile‌One mother wrote [him] she was happy all three of her children had died because two wouldn’t have anything to eat.â€? Haiova, who has spent the last 20 years studying the metropolitan, said Sheptytsky was prolific. She recently helped complete a three-volume series of Sheptytsky’s pastoral letters that span from 1899 to 1944. The volumes run 3,085 pages, only a portion of his writings. The last decade of Sheptytsky’s life was particularly challenging, scholars said. His health began to deteriorate in the mid-1930s, yet he continued to call for rationality in a society that was becoming increasingly polarized.
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When OUN split into two factions in 1940, he supported its more moderate wing and called for solidarity. Throughout his tenure as church head, he denounced murder as a political weapon. Ukrainians remain uncomfortable with Sheptytsky, said Ihor Smolskyi, a scholar who has studied the relationship between the metropolitan and the Jews. Sheptytsky is credited with saving the lives of many Jews during World War II. “It’s like hitting your head against the wall,� he said. “The past ideological stereotypes that are among the Ukrainian nationalist parties get in the way of understanding the metropolitan and this includes Polish and Soviet stereotypes.� Kyiv Post staff writer Natalia A. Feduschak can be reached at feduschak@ kyivpost.com
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JOIN THE FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL UKRAINE Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of volunteers and professionals standing up for human rights. Independent of any government, ideology, economic interest or religion, we have more than two million supporters in over 150 countries. Our purpose is to research, campaign and take action to effect change and protect individuals wherever justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied. As the director you will lead the process of developing a longer term strategy for Amnesty International’s presence in Ukraine. You will act as key spokesperson and representative of Amnesty International with local government, media and other authorities, manage the overall operations, campaign activities and resources of the Ukrainian structure, and provide leadership to Amnesty International’s constituents in Ukraine. The successful candidate will be highly motivated to promote human rights and bring vast experience of organizational development and change management to the post. You will have wide knowledge of human rights issues and the Ukrainian social and political context, and the ability to provide leadership across a diverse and complex organization. Professionalism and impartiality are essentials.
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Main Responsibilities: • Work with legal documents (prepare, proofread, edit, organize, file) • Assist attorneys with administrative matters • Handle telephone calls, visitors and correspondence • Prepare time and expense reports • Support team and other staff members Major Requirements: • Higher education • At least one year experience in a similar position • Fluent written and verbal English, Ukrainian and Russian • Excellent communication and organization skills • Ability to responsibly handle confidential work assignments • Ability to work under pressure
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Региональный офис в Крыму Программы Развития Организации Объединенных Наций (ПРООН) приглашает заинтересованные организации принять участие в следующих тендерах:
RFP HSMPD/2010/016 Анализ событий, подготовка квартальных отчетов о результатах анализа событий и квартальных отчётов о социально-экономическом развитии RFP HSMPD/2010/015 Проведение двух экспертных фокус - групп для Ukraine обсуждения социально-экономического развития АРК и политической ситуации в АРК RFP RDA/2010/017 Запрос на предоставление услуг по разработке Маркетинговой стратегии и брэнда для Крымского агентства регионального развития Крайний срок принятия предложений – 18:00, 15 Ноября 2010 RFQ CIDP/2010/010 Долгосрочное соглашение (LTA) на поставки бензина для Регионального офиса ПРООН (UNDP Sub Office) Крайний срок принятия предложений – 18:00, 19 Ноября 2010 Подробную информацию о тендерах, а также форму заявки можно найти на интернет сайтах ПРООН в Украине http://www.undp.crimea.ua и http://www.undp.org.ua/en/tenders
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Kyiv Post job fair helps thousands
The Kyiv Post held its 15th Employment Fair for thousands of job seekers in Kyiv on Nov. 6 at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Some 30 companies had a chance to meet with up-and-coming talent as well as established professionals. Google, IBM Ukraine, Cargill, DHL, SCA and Swedbank stands were among the more popular among job hunters. Warren Green from Alberta Immigration spelled out the rules for getting to Canada legally. Experts from HeadHunter held a seminar on how to seek employment and make a good impression to prospective employers. The previous Kyiv Post fair was held in 2008. With the economy finally recovering after the 2009 recession, the Kyiv Post hopes for biannual job fairs. (Yaroslav Debelyi)