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№17, Tuesday, 24 2005

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Cannes Triumph Something has happened which no one has expected. For the first time in Ukrainian filmmaking history a Ukrainian production has won the Palme d’Or at the prestigious Cannes festival. Scythian Mounds Being Privatized in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast — Five to Six a Hectare In the course of agrarian reform and land distribution 70% of the ancient burial mounds of the nomadic peoples that populated the territory of what is now Ukraine have become private property. Many of then were later razed to the ground. According to Lidiya Holubchyk, director of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Center for the Conservation of Historical and Cultural Treasures, mounds are at risk today because of flawed Ukrainian legislation, and the state is now finding it difficult to reclaim its unique Eurovision: Debit and Credit We know that until almost the very last moment the European Broadcasting Union and some of the participating countries were not sure that Ukraine could stage the 50th Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv on the proper level. Now we have every reason to state that Ukraine could and did, that it turned out a top quality and memorable show with excellent emcees, and so on and so forth. In a word, Ukraine coped with the task and rated A plus. Even though its own contestant, the group Greenjolly, was placed A Zone of Difficult Perception This was by no means the first “NATO landing operation” in Donetsk: the North Atlantic alliance has notably expanded its dialogue with eastern and central Ukraine, shifting the center of gravity in its relationship with Ukraine from Kyiv to the regions, and universities are co-sponsoring such events with greater frequency. Donetsk oblast is no exception: participating in the dialogue with NATO on May 17-19 were predominantly undergraduate and graduate students of Donetsk National University and other This week in history May 24, 1991. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Green Party of Ukraine.	Scythian Mounds Being Privatized in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast — Five to Six a Hectare Eurovision: Debit and Credit A Zone of Difficult Perception This week in history

DAY AFTER DAY

Home, Sweet Home... Sixty-one years ago the Crimean Tatars were deported from the peninsula. The same destiny awaited the Crimean Armenians, Bulgarians, and Greeks on June 24, 1944, whereas the local Germans had been exiled earlier, in August 1941. Flirting with Scholarship On May 27 the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater will premiere Ivan Kotliarevsky’s Natalka Poltavka. The Revolution’s Media Guidelines A lot of books have been quickly churned out about the Orange Revolution: documentary publications and glossy illustrated books (Kyiv’s Independence Square was a real bonanza for photographers). The latest book cropped up the other day. What is special about this one is that it was edited by Mykhailo Pohrebynsky, director of the Kyiv- based Center for Political and Conflict Studies. He is the political scientist whom the former opposition blamed for drawing up the notorious temnyky (media guidelines) One Hundred Days of New Diplomacy The first months under the new leadership have seen the emergence of a new Ukraine in the foreign policy arena, with diplomats working hard to secure a new international status for Ukraine and broaden the field of the new government’s international legitimacy. After some 100 days Ukraine’s foreign policy dynamics have noticeably slowed down. The time of foreign policy breakthroughs is over. Having formed the general outline of the new Ukraine, strategic diplomacy is giving way to fine-tuned diplomacy Hungarian ABCs of European Integration The main lobbyists for Ukraine’s entry into the European community of nations are not state agencies in Eastern European countries but the average citizen. This was the principal message of the 10th international forum “From Europe to Europe: Common Denominators of Euro-Atlantic Integration,” which was held recently in Szeged, 180 km from Budapest. The unofficial slogan was “A Joint Europe: Our Common Purpose.” Ukraine Joins Bologna Convention As of May 19 Ukraine is a full-fledged partner of the European countries determined to establish a single European space for higher education. The current conference of education and science ministers representing the European members of the Bologna process is underway in Bergen, Norway. A treaty will be signed on the accession to the Bologna process by Ukraine, Moldova, Monaco, Georgia, Armenia, and possibly Azerbaijan. After these procedures the only countries left outside the process will be Belarus, A Princely Visit His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent has paid a second visit to Kyiv. His first visit to Ukraine took place last year, when he arrived to take part in celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of the Crimean War. The prince said that Britain had closely watched and rejoiced over the events of last winter in Ukraine, and he wished Ukrainians every success on their way forward. This time Prince Michael arrived in Ukraine to attend the opening of the BBC’s new Monitoring Bureau in Kyiv. Last Friday	Flirting with Scholarship The Revolution’s Media Guidelines One Hundred Days of New Diplomacy Hungarian ABCs of European Integration Ukraine Joins Bologna Convention A Princely Visit

CLOSEUP

Kuchma and Kuchmism as a Phenomenon (Continued from the previous issue)

SOCIETY/ECONOMY

Compensation for Guilt No matter how often Vasyl Popadiuk tried to picture this meeting, he never thought he would be so excited. Would Richard recognize him? What does he look like today? Sixty years ago, in St. Poelten, they were just boys playing soccer and racing each other, unaware of their strikingly different status. Richard was an Austrian, a free man, a master, while Vasyl was just a farm laborer forcibly brought from far-away Ukraine. In fact, he was a little downtrodden slave, and hurting one of his kind was Port of Odesa Opens One-Stop Customs Service to Curb Corruption In early May the Odesa Commercial Seaport launched a one-stop border and customs service. Addressing the opening ceremony, Odesa seaport director Mykola Pavliuk said, “To organize a one-stop system for clearing containers is one of the main requirements of the president’s Stop the Contraband program.” Transport Minister Yevhen Chervonenko believes that see-through doors and constant video surveillance of inspectors working in the same building should discourage bribe-taking in any form. “The one-stop American Project for Ukrainian Defense Industry Skeptics of Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration have said much about an avalanche of problems that the Ukrainian defense industry will face because of it. The success stories of Polish and Czech defense cooperation with the Western European nations carry little conviction because Ukraine’s defense sector is incomparably larger than that of Poland or the Czech Republic. This, however, did not stop Poland from outstripping Ukraine in the international arms market with exports in 2003 reaching $800	Port of Odesa Opens One-Stop Customs Service to Curb Corruption American Project for Ukrainian Defense Industry

CULTURE/HISTORY

Sand Architects The beach was bustling with activity as four dozen sand sculpture lovers from five countries presented their technically elaborate but short-lived creations. After schmoozing with the architects (no exaggeration, as many of the competitors are student architects and accomplished artists), this author learned that it takes an average of 15 tons of sand and five days of intensive work to build one sculpture. Normally two or three days would have been enough, if it weren’t for the May weather that unleashed Confederates from the Hetman State The ideals of freedom in the post-Soviet territories are more often than not associated with North America, although in our past we can find quite a few examples worthy of emulation. Historical documents attest that a true national-liberation struggle was also waged toward the end of the 18th century in Ukraine. Soviet historians ignored the facts indicating that there was a small group of people in the Hetman State, whose endeavors allow us today to view our history and events dating back more than A Hussar’s Ballad Most people know what a hussar is. But very few know that hussar regiments, strictly speaking, were not Russian. In point of fact, they were manned predominantly by Ukrainian recruits. Although hussar units included many Serbs, Moldavians, Albanians, and Hungarians, whom the tsarist government resettled in the mid-18th century in southern Ukraine — in so-called New Serbia and Slavic Serbia — the Ukrainians formed the bulk of these units. Men and Women The new exhibition by the well-known Kyiv artist Oleksandr Ahafonov, now showing in what once was a bakery in St. Sophia’s Cathedral, is called “Animus et Anima” (loosely translated as “a male soul and a female soul”). This was also the title of a previous exhibition. Naturally, this repetition is not accidental. According to the artist, “Animus et Anima” is probably the best definition of his oeuvre.	Confederates from the Hetman State A Hussar’s Ballad Men and Women

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