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№35, Tuesday, 14 2004

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Information Breakthrough The crisis is over, to use the medical parlance. Slowly but surely, life is returning to normal. As Independence Square has emptied, the television receiver is no longer the focus of family life. Not surprisingly, during the past few tumultuous weeks most Ukrainians stayed glued to television screens round the clock for the latest news reports. Now newspaper vendors are reporting declining sales, while the merits of Yushchenko as opposed to Yanukovych are no longer the hot topic on public transp The Morning After the Revolution Many found last week’s consensus in Ukrainian parliament astonishing. An overwhelming constitutional majority of 402 lawmakers backed a package of electoral and constitutional amendments. On the opposition side, 78 ayes came from Viktor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine faction and one more from Anatoly Matviyenko of the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc, with the remaining factions and groups voting unanimously, except for several abstentions. This has been the first successful attempt to amend the Constitution since Wlodzimerz Cimoszevicz: Polish Foreign Minister Wlodzimerz Cimoszevicz, in an interview with Ukrainian journalists after the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting, looked more optimistic than during his previous visits to Kyiv. Mr. Cimoszevicz is known for his invariably principled stand, so his statement that Warsaw would try to change the format of EU-NATO- Ukrainian relationships should be seriously considered. He said, in particular, that everybody discussed Ukraine at that NATO meeting and there was an optimistic and hopeful Human Rights: Festive and Humdrum Days Last Friday the world observed Human Rights Day. Had this day been marked a month before, we would have again been spouting the same old story about endless human rights abuses, a subject that has flogged to death. Yet 2004 has become a special year in Ukraine in terms of human rights protection. Yevhen Zakharov, the head of a Kharkiv-based human rights group, claims there were more mass-scale systematic abuses than ever before, owing to the election campaign. There was overt political persecution: This week in history December 14. 1918. Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky of Ukraine abdicated power in favor of the Directory.	The Morning After the Revolution Wlodzimerz Cimoszevicz: Human Rights: Festive and Humdrum Days This week in history

DAY AFTER DAY

Festival of Triumph Last Thursday the final gala concert of the Colors of Hope Festival, organized by the Kyiv City Center of Youth Social Services, was held in Kyiv. The gala presented the winners of district-level competitions for young Kyivans who have to brave their mental and physical disabilities every day of their lives. While the first few festivals only tried to involve handicapped children in active life, the fourth festival and subsequent ones sought to organize handicapped children for some kind of joint The Inflation Tax The National Bank of Ukraine’s Board, a constitutional body that shapes this country’s fiscal policy, was in session last Friday for the second time in the first ten days of December. This supposedly routine session was convened to discuss the performance of the banking system and the entire economy for the past eleven months. The NBU’s general economic department had drawn up for this occasion a reference note with endless figures and charts that illustrate all kinds of positive results of the year The Last Hero Last Thursday evening it was announced that President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine signed a decree to confer the title of Hero of Ukraine and the Order of State to Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn. The head of state thus marked the “head of the Ukrainian parliament’s outstanding personal contributions to Ukraine in promoting the state, reforming the political system, and instilling the ideals of civil unity and harmony in society,” the President’s press service told Interfax-Ukraine. In all probability, Compromise: Harmful or Healthy? The strengthening of the Ukrainian political system is a good sign because unlimited central government has never led to anything good. My overall assessment of the situation is that Ukraine needs changes in its political system, so parliament can have more authority as a cornerstone of democracy. If you analyze the latest parliamentary resolutions in the light of various interests, a different picture emerges. First, there is no denying the victory of the current president, Leonid Kuchma. He spent A Glaring Blot In its final match of the Champions League group tournament, Dynamo Kyiv suffered a humiliating 0:3 defeat from Bayern Leverkusen of Germany. Not only has this defeat eliminated the Kyivans from future League rounds, but has also left a bad taste after a generally successful season. Irreconcilable Reactions As politicians throughout the world continue to comment on the election crisis in Ukraine, Moscow continues to pollute the information space with disapproving remarks directed at the Ukrainian opposition. In contrast, Western nations applaud the democratic processes underway in Ukraine. It is not unlikely that Russia will soon revise its position to reflect the significant changes taking place as the two sides work to defuse the political crisis. In any case, Russia will have to reckon with both	The Inflation Tax The Last Hero Compromise: Harmful or Healthy? A Glaring Blot Irreconcilable Reactions

CLOSEUP

Byzantine Eagle, Symbol of “Orange” Revolutions “Help me, oh Roman Eagle Who branded my shackled ancestors!” Yevhen Malaniuk “Why should Turkey join United Europe ahead of Ukraine?” The Day’s correspondent interviewed Horst Kachele, a professor at the University of Ulm and world famous psychoanalyst, Victor Kann, co-chairman of the Adlerian Psychology Association of Austria, and Oleksandr Filz, deputy chairman of the European Association of Psychotherapists and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Postgraduate Education at Lviv Medical University. All three observed Kyiv in the days of the orange protest rallies, being especially careful to look into the Iraq’s Silent Dead Evidence is mounting that America’s war in Iraq has killed tens of thousands of civilian Iraqis, and perhaps well over one hundred thousand. Yet this carnage is systematically ignored in the United States, where the media and government portray a war in which there are no civilian deaths, because there are no Iraqi civilians, only insurgents.	“Why should Turkey join United Europe ahead of Ukraine?” Iraq’s Silent Dead

SOCIETY

A Temple or a Canvassing Station? The current presidential campaign in Ukraine is rich in overwhelming and staggering surprises, laying bare good and bad things that have been kept away from the public eye for decades. For example, many people believe that there are few true patriots in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, especially among the parish clergy, deacons, priests, bishops, let alone the cloistered communities. This superficial and unjust view has been largely due to the overactive (if not scandalous) A Business Project for a Civic Stance The term civil society has gained much currency of late. Yet when we speak about the third sector in Ukraine, it’s difficult to define its role in society clearly. A friend of mine, a manager of an advocacy group for the disabled, visited the US, where he saw how the third sector should work. He saw the resource base of their civic organizations and the advocacy campaigns that they conduct. Most importantly, they are a force to reckon with in the US. After his trip, which made him see many things One Language for 135 Nations Early in December, young representatives of Kyiv’s ethnic associations and communities took part in a competition entitled “Blossom, O Language, Shining with Verbal Brilliance,” in which they competed in Ukrainian language proficiency and demonstrated their knowledge of their native languages. In Kyiv, this contest is traditionally timed to coincide with the anniversary of Ukraine’s Nationwide Independence Referendum. The State Library for Young People initiated this contest six years ago. True to	A Business Project for a Civic Stance One Language for 135 Nations

CULTURE

A Successor to the Ukrainian Sages T.K.: That was a religious chant called “Thank Our Lord Jesus Christ” dating from the late sixteenth century. These chants emerged in Ukraine in place of psalms, under the influence of the Reformation. A large number of aristocratic Ukrainian families sent their children to study at European universities in Padua, Sorbonne, and Krakow. Some students remained true to their forefathers’ Catholic or Eastern Orthodox faiths, but others succumbed to various Protestant trends and became Calvinists, Lutherans, “Hmyria is the Epitome of the National Idea” This vocal competition was dedicated to the centennial of the illustrious Ukrainian singer Borys Hmyria (1903-69), which was celebrated in Ukraine last year. THE IMPERATIVE OF UNITY In the early 1890s the nationally oriented Ukrainian intelligentsia faced a number of urgent and difficult questions that could not be evaded, ignored, or shelved, for they needed an honest, sincere and courageous answer. The questions were: How can the wall between the intelligentsia and the people be torn down? In what concrete way can educated Ukrainians serve the joint national cause? How can one find and formulate a nationwide Ukrainian ideal? Finally, by far the most important question: Is What Cactuses Whisper Indeed, what are they whispering? What surprises are hidden in a night-bound train at a border checkpoint? What is beautiful about Mojacar? Don’t rush to strain your imagination and rekindle your memories and forgotten knowledge of what has no bearing on your present life. You will find answers to these and many other questions at the graphics exhibition by the Kyiv-based artist Tamara Polishchuk, which has opened at Obraz Gallery.	“Hmyria is the Epitome of the National Idea” THE IMPERATIVE OF UNITY What Cactuses Whisper

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Information Breakthrough

The Morning After the Revolution

Wlodzimerz Cimoszevicz:

Human Rights: Festive and Humdrum Days

This week in history

Festival of Triumph

The Inflation Tax

The Last Hero

Compromise: Harmful or Healthy?

A Glaring Blot

Irreconcilable Reactions

Byzantine Eagle, Symbol of “Orange” Revolutions

“Why should Turkey join United Europe ahead of Ukraine?”

Iraq’s Silent Dead

A Temple or a Canvassing Station?

A Business Project for a Civic Stance

One Language for 135 Nations

A Successor to the Ukrainian Sages

“Hmyria is the Epitome of the National Idea”

THE IMPERATIVE OF UNITY

What Cactuses Whisper

FOCUS OF THE DAY

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