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Who betrayed whom? “Treason” has always been one of the most commonly used words in the vocabulary of Ukrainian politicians. Sometimes, however, it is applied to those who do not deserve this appellation. The t-word and its synonyms have been especially popular in the last while. TV promotional clips are strongly urging voters “not to betray the Maidan.” The opposition is accusing the government of “betraying national interests” by signing a gas deal with Russia in early January. Members of the once united Orange team “Qualifying period” Bruce Jackson, president of the non-governmental organization Project on Transitional Democracies, is well-known in expert circles, and numerous politicians keep the doors of their offices open to him. This attests to his great clout, at least in the US, his home country. Jackson admits that nobody likes being given advice. In his view, Ukrainian politicians are no exception, because Kyiv has ignored many recommendations by authoritative specialists and thus committed many errors. Yet there is a Mysteries behind the new joint venture The end of last week may turn out to be truly momentous for our country, as its final days were marked by two interconnected and equally contradictory events. On Thursday Ukraine learned about its long-term development strategy, mapped out by Yuriy Yekhanurov’s cabinet, and the creation of the Ukrgazenergo joint venture and the contracts signed by the cabinet. Russia’s “Oil-for-Knowledge” Scheme Whenever you fill up your European compact car’s gas tank, or that of your American SUV, you pay as much as a Russian schoolteacher earns in a month. And every time you pay, you subsidize a regime that relies on energy, not information, as its main product. You finance the pre-modern and the inefficient, and perhaps worse: every time you pay, you may be collaborating with political evil. This week in history February 7 1919. The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR decreed to form the “workers’ and peasants’ militia” (police).	“Qualifying period” Mysteries behind the new joint venture Russia’s “Oil-for-Knowledge” Scheme This week in history

DAY AFTER DAY

Factor of cultural action Interfax Ukraine reports that at its first session the President’s National Council on Culture and Spirituality supported the idea to establish a state center combining a research institute, exhibition halls, and a repository of unique collections gathered on the contaminated territories of the Chornobyl zone. The problem of preserving the ethnic and cultural heritage of this region was raised by a council member, the poet Lina Kostenko, who is taking part in ethnographic expeditions to the exclusion “The cinema isn’t politics; there’s room for everyone” During Gerard Depardieu’s two-day visit to Kyiv the distinguished French actor met with President Yushchenko at his home in the village of Bezradychi in Kyiv oblast. The actor was presented with a souvenir: an embroidered shirt. On Wednesday morning, before visiting the Dovzhenko Studios, Depardieu met with several journalists representing the leading Ukrainian media (including The Day) at the Premier Palace. The actor said he intends to play the title role in the international film project Taras A bag of goodies The following letter arrived at the office of Larysa Ivshyna. Mickiewicz to stay in Ukraine Kyiv’s Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Art Museum is hosting an exhibit entitled Adam Mickiewicz’s Crimean Sonnets as part of the cultural program “Year of Poland in Ukraine.” Interpol to help the Central Election Commission? Yaroslav Davydovych, the head of the Central Election Commission has urged the National Interpol Bureau in Ukraine to furnish information about those registered as parliamentary candidates, www.korrespondent.net reports. “The CEC registers candidates on the basis of produced documents. We are not the KGB and don’t have an investigative department to verify information about prospective members of parliament. All the CEC can do is forward documents to the State Tax Administration for verification,” Prosecutor-General calls for punishing falsifiers The Prosecutor-General’s Office of Ukraine is still making efforts to trace the plotters of the murder of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze and to track down Oleksiy Pukach, former chief of the Interior Ministry’s external surveillance department, said Prosecutor-General Oleksandr Medvedko at a Kyiv press conference last Tuesday. “An investigative operations group continues to work in order to identify the plotters and determine the whereabouts of Pukach,” Medvedko said. He expressed regret that “there Catalyst of integration In late January, when a Ukrainian government delegation was visiting the Slovak Republic, Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda gave his Ukrainian counterpart Yuriy Yekhanurov “Proposals on Helping Ukraine Fulfill the Ukraine-EU Action Plan.” This document, drawn up by the government of the Slovak Republic, contains proposals from Slovak ministries and other administrative bodies to their Ukrainian colleagues. It also takes into account the results of the large-scale project, “Partnership in Ukraine’s	“The cinema isn’t politics; there’s room for everyone” A bag of goodies Mickiewicz to stay in Ukraine Interpol to help the Central Election Commission? Prosecutor-General calls for punishing falsifiers Catalyst of integration

CLOSEUP

We and the empire Photo from The Day’s archive In this second installment of Stanislav Kulchytsky’s study of world empires and their role in Ukraine’s history, the historian focuses on the Russian Empire Europe delivered to school How was the idea of this special course conceived? A little doggie wants to meet you Last weekend the Zoodim pet supermarket located on the Osokorky housing estate in Kyiv held its latest action called “Find Yourself a Friend.” Almost every weekend the organizers, volunteers of the Hostomel animal shelter, give away puppies and kittens to Kyiv residents and display photos of other inmates of the animal shelter. If you like some of the photographed animals, you can visit the shelter. The only requirement for becoming the owner of an animal is “to have good hands” and sign a contract	Europe delivered to school A little doggie wants to meet you

SOCIETY/ECONOMY

Tax-inflicted “wounds” The just-published report of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine (DPA) seems to be its first response to the Auditing Chamber’s accusation of distorting data on the implementation of the 2005 state budget. It will be recalled that chairman of the Auditing Chamber Valentyn Symonenko questioned the Ministry of Finance’s claim that budget revenue targets had been met by 110 percent. Isn’t there bilingualism in our country? Several years ago, when I was talking with the Finnish painter Harri Junnila, I asked him where he had learned such good Russian. Junnila explained that he wanted to study Swedish in school, but that his mother, who was working for a travel agency, decided that he should study Russian. Frozen country On a quiet, sunny, and bitterly cold morning, passersby hurrying on their way to work or the grocery store glanced in horror at the motionless figure of a man lying spread-eagled on the trampled snow. The man’s head was covered with a dirty piece of once transparent plastic, and a half-open bag with the dead man’s meager belongings lay nearby. Too preoccupied with its urgent matters, the city kept hurrying somewhere, while he lay there alone face down, with his arms spread wide, as if pleading for Are schools prepared to tell children about the Holodomor? Where can a village schoolteacher obtain information for a thematic lesson commemorating James Mace? The administration of an elementary school in Vinnytsia oblast recently asked our editors this question. A letter from the Ministry of Education and Science is being implemented in the regions, in pursuance of the directive of the President of Ukraine “On Measures to Honor the Memory of James Mace,” dedicated to the 54th anniversary of the birth of this outstanding journalist, public figure, and scholar,	Isn’t there bilingualism in our country? Frozen country Are schools prepared to tell children about the Holodomor?

CULTURE

Does the audience need prompting? The Day has recounted in detail how this opera came to be. It is staged by an energetic team consisting of the young stage director, Anatoliy Solovianenko, in collaboration with such distinguished veterans as conductor Ivan Hamkalo, production designer Maria Levytska, choirmaster Lev Venedyktov, and choreographer Aniko Rekhviashvili. The cast is also very impressive, including the company’s best soloists and the singers of the Children’s Opera Choir of the Podil House of Creativity (conducted by Every person is a universe The Pylypenko exhibit features thematically linked bronze sculptures and laser photo montages. The theme is philosophical reflections on the cosmic significance of human beings, a combination of form and essence. The sculptor’s works consist predominantly of round-shaped figures usually associated with outer space, but they also radiate a purely Ukrainian and at the same time sad, laconic, and very expressive poetic spirit. The titles of the sculptures are self-explanatory: “Toward Light,” “Projection Ivan Honchar’s Ukraine and Ukrainians An exhibit called “Ivan Honchar the Collector,” commemorating the 95th anniversary of the birth of this renowned civic and cultural figure, sculptor, painter, and Ukrainian folk art specialist, has opened at the Ukrainian Center of Folk Culture. On display are paintings, photos, and documents that were collected by Ivan Makarovych when he was creating his home-based museum of the Ukrainian ethnographic heritage. One more expectation Every now and then, announcements about splashy projects accompany the very cautious and timid enlivening of the filmmaking process in Ukraine. Last week the cinematographic community was told about the latest studio paradise. Behind the veil of mystery Where’s Zalizniak, that soul sincere? Where does he rest at last? The times are foul! The hangman reigns, And none recalls the past. (Taras Shevchenko, “The Haidamaks”) The music of Sviridov For the last three years the Russian embassy has held traditional music soirees. These concerts were initiated by Russian Ambassador Viktor Chernomyrdin and are dedicated to prominent creative figures of different eras. They have become a prominent event in the cultural life of Kyiv. The musical salons at the embassy are marked by the performers’ high professional level, most of whom are from Ukraine, their flawless style, and immaculate taste in selecting the program. One such concert was dedicated Belarusian martyrs Ukrainians know more or less the tragic history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholics, who for centuries championed the right to profess their faith and, by that very act, their national identity and national choice. And although the idea to destroy this church is still a slogan on the flags of some Orthodox churches, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) is today protected by the Constitution. It conducts a normal church life, has a well-ramified network of parishes, seminaries, institutes, monasteries	Every person is a universe Ivan Honchar’s Ukraine and Ukrainians One more expectation Behind the veil of mystery The music of Sviridov Belarusian martyrs

TIME OUT

Ice that warms The cast members of Sergei Ryzhkov’s “Moscow Circus on Ice” are between the ages of 16 and 30. The budget is fantastic: six million dollars and the show’s creator says it is unmatched in the world. How expensive is a theater outing in Kyiv? Tickets to the Russian Drama Theater start at seven hryvnias. But unless you want a balcony seat with a perfect view of the theater’s chandelier and a limited view of the stage, you should dig deeper in your pockets and be prepared to pay several times more, with the priciest tickets selling for 75 hryvnias. The Ivan Franko Theater is less expensive. Here tickets range from 5 to 50 hryvnias. A night at the National Opera will cost you between 5 and 70. Aboard a “penguin” to the South Pole The Penguin-MS is the name of a unique velo-ark invented by Leonid Mykula, a celebrated adventurer from Kharkiv, who plans to travel on his invention to the South Pole this year.	How expensive is a theater outing in Kyiv? Aboard a “penguin” to the South Pole

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Who betrayed whom?

“Qualifying period”

Mysteries behind the new joint venture

Russia’s “Oil-for-Knowledge” Scheme

This week in history

Factor of cultural action

“The cinema isn’t politics; there’s room for everyone”

A bag of goodies

Mickiewicz to stay in Ukraine

Interpol to help the Central Election Commission?

Prosecutor-General calls for punishing falsifiers

Catalyst of integration

We and the empire

Europe delivered to school

A little doggie wants to meet you

Tax-inflicted “wounds”

Isn’t there bilingualism in our country?

Frozen country

Are schools prepared to tell children about the Holodomor?

Does the audience need prompting?

Every person is a universe

Ivan Honchar’s Ukraine and Ukrainians

One more expectation

Behind the veil of mystery

The music of Sviridov

Belarusian martyrs

Ice that warms

How expensive is a theater outing in Kyiv?

Aboard a “penguin” to the South Pole

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