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The Ukrainian Weekly 2010, No.11 www.ukrweekly.com InsIde: • More on Yanukovych in Moscow and Brussels – page 3. • Ukaine’s new Cabinet of Ministers – page 10. • Noted Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych – page 13. THEPublished U by theKRA Ukrainian NationalIN AssociationIAN Inc., a fraternal Wnon-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXVIII No.11 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2010 $1/$2 in Ukraine Changing the rules, factions Yanukovych travels to Moscow form a new majority coalition after being welcomed in Brussels Mykola Azarov is PM in pro-Moscow Cabinet by Zenon Zawada held view in the Ukrainian political estab- Kyiv Press Bureau lishment that they’ve violated the coun- try’s Constitution. KYIV – Ukraine’s pro-Russian parlia- National deputies of the pro-Russian mentary factions on March 11 formed a forces spent the last two weeks passing coalition government that will work in legislation that allows rogue deputies – tandem with the newly elected president, those expelled from their respective par- Viktor Yanukovych, ignoring the widely liamentary factions – as well as defectors to help form the coalition. Only with their participation was it possible to form a majority of 235 national deputies. Opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and former President Viktor Yushchenko declared that the parliamentary coalition and the Cabinet of Ministers were illegal Official Website of Ukraine’s President and illegitimate. “It’s very shameful that Ukraine’s newly inaugurated president, Viktor Yanukovych (left), meets with Yanukovych is starting this way,” said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow. Ms. Tymoshenko. Their claims were supported by politi- by Zenon Zawada ing Europe first and then offered gener- cal and legal experts, who agreed that the Kyiv Press Bureau ous concessions – demonstrated he’s inef- Constitution of Ukraine only allows par- fective in defending Ukraine’s interests liamentary factions, not individuals, to KYIV – European leaders welcomed before the Russian government. form coalitions. President Yanukovych Viktor Yanukovych with their hands “The negotiations, as well as the signed the regulation-bending legislation warmly extended on his first foreign visit on March 10, the day after Parliament accompanying public messages, practi- to Brussels, but it was in Moscow four cally followed a Russian scenario,” said approved its second reading. days later that the newly elected The first reading was approved on Volodymyr Fesenko, an expert at the Ukrainian president demonstrated a will- Kyiv-based Penta Center for Applied March 4. Party of Regions of Ukraine ingness to bend over backwards. deputies admitted that the legislation Political Research. The consensus among Ukraine’s lead- served as a convenient avenue to avoid “To compare, recall the themes raised UNIAN ing political experts was that Mr. dealing with the Our Ukraine-People’s by [Russian President Dmitry] Medvedev Prime Minister Mykola Azarov address- Yanukovych’s March 5 visit to Moscow – es the Verkhovna Rada on March 11. (Continued on page 10) in which he all-but-apologized for visit- (Continued on page 8) Travel to Ukraine promoted at New York Times Travel Show WASHINGTON – For the second cornerstone of regional stability and as a consecutive year, Ukraine was repre- full partner in the community of nations. sented through the Discover Ukraine The foundation has been supporting exhibit at The New York Times Travel Ukraine’s travel industry since 2005, Show, the largest consumer and travel when it launched the travel site, www. trade show produced in the United traveltoukraine.org. Since then the web- States. The convention, featuring nearly site has become the No. 1 Google, 500 exhibitors representing more than Yahoo! and Bing “Ukraine travel” site 150 countries, was held at the Jacob K. on the Internet. Javits Convention Center in New York Over the past 12 months, the U.S.- on February 26-28. Ukraine Foundation has conducted a The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation orga- wide array of public relations activities nized the Discover Ukraine exhibit and in support of Ukraine’s international the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council, the image, including promoting Kyiv largest non-profit trade association rep- through “Cities: Capitals of the Mind,” resenting the interests of U.S. businesses an international London summit and active in Ukraine, was the sponsor. through The Communication Group’s The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation widely distributed report, “Cities: The (USUF) is a not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) Destination Identity.” non-governmental organization estab- The USUF’s growing presence on the lished in 1991 to facilitate democratic Internet, along with its business sector U.S.-Ukraine Foundation development, encourage free market e-newsletter, BizLinks, distributed to reform and enhance human rights in 5,000 subscribers, complements its trav- At The New York Times Travel Show (from left) are: U.S.-Ukraine Foundation Ukraine. The USUF is dedicated to el show efforts. Board Member Iryna Kurowyckyj, Consul General of Ukraine in New York strengthening the mutual objectives of Serhii Pohoreltsev, USUF President Nadia McConnell and USUF Program both nations and advancing Ukraine as a (Continued on page 12) Assistant Oksana Yakovenko. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2010 No. 11 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Yanukovych’s election opens up Yanukovych: no second state language effect, and they are not accepted in both Ukraine and Europe.” He said that it was not Crimean separatist threat KYIV – The Ukrainian language will be by accident that the European Parliament the only state language in Ukraine, President had asked the new Ukrainian leadership to by Taras Kuzio 2002 and 2004. Viktor Yanukovych said on March 9. cancel President Yushchenko’s decree to “Ukraine will continue to promote the Eurasia Daily Monitor Mr. Yanukovych’s real persona became posthumously honor Bandera. Mr. evident only after the Orange Revolution Ukrainian language as its only state lan- Yanukovych added that a decision to repeal Viktor Yanukovych’s inauguration as and Viktor Yushchenko’s election. In guage,” he said at a meeting with Taras the decrees would be made before Victory Ukrainian president on February 25 forced 2005-2006, the Party of Regions reversed Shevchenko National Prize winners in Kyiv. Day, May 9, which marks the victory of the him to face the fact that the Party of the marginalization of Russian nationalists He added that Ukraine would implement the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany during Regions that he leads has re-opened the and separatists in Crimea, in effect assist- European Charter for Regional or Minority World War II, known in Soviet parlance as Pandora’s Box of Crimean separatism. ing Russian covert intelligence support for Languages. (Interfax-Ukraine, Ukrinform) the Great Patriotic War. (Ukrinform, National Institute of Strategic Studies ana- separatists on the peninsula, in Zakarpattia Returned Shevchenko papers on display Reuters) lyst Petro Burkovsky asked, “Will and in Odesa. Mr. Yanukovych said during President Yanukovych open up the path to the second round of the presidential elec- KYIV – Ambassador John F. Tefft and Nationalists threaten mass rallies the separation of the Crimea?” in tion that “GUAM has lost its importance” his wife, Mariella, participated in the open- KYIV – Ukraine’s nationalist forces have Ukrayinska Pravda before the second (Ukrayinska Pravda, February 4). ing of an exhibit of returned Shevchenko threatened to hold mass protests if President round of voting (Ukrayinska Pravda, The Party of Regions united with two papers at the National Museum of Literature Victor Yanukovych annuls the decree award- January 26). Russian nationalist parties in the For Mr. of Ukraine on March 2. The Ambassadors A similar warning was published in ing the Hero of Ukraine, the country’s high- Yanukovych bloc that won the 2006 Fund for Cultural Preservation is helping to est honor, to Stepan Bandera and Roman Nezavisimaya Gazeta (February 19): “The Crimean parliamentary elections. New restore the original manuscripts, photos, rare Crimea could become a major problem for Shukhevych. “The Ukrainian president Crimean parliamentary elections will be publications and graphics of Shevchenko’s made pledges to Russia concerning the lan- the new Ukrainian president.” The author held this year that will provide an opportu- collection, now on public display. The most pointed to the first example of this pending guage, church, Shukhevych and Sevastopol. nity for Russian nationalists to mobilize. precious part of the collection was saved This is something he will run against before threat to Ukraine’s territorial integrity. The The For Mr. Yanukovych bloc included the during World War II by the former director Crimean Parliament voted to change its he learns to run the state in the interests of Party of Regions, Russian bloc and the of the Taras Shevchenko museum and sub- the state itself. What are we going to do? name from Crimean Supreme Rada Russian Community of Crimea (ROK). sequently moved from Europe to the United (Ukrainian for Council) to Soviet (the Definitely, we will stage serious protests,” The Russian bloc is financed by Moscow’s States in 1951. The unique collection was commented Ihor Mazur, leader of the Kyiv Russian equivalent). “The Crimean depu- Mayor, Yurii Luzhkov, and has close links preserved by the Ukrainian Academy of Arts ties had de facto voted for the move to a branch of the Ukrainian National Assembly- to Russian intelligence. ROK, led by the and Sciences of the U.S., and returned to Ukrainian Self-Defense organization, speak- Russian name of the Parliament of the First Vice-Chair of the Crimean Ukraine. In 2009 the U.S. government, autonomous [republic] by infringing on ing at a press conference on March 9. “I Parliament, Sergei Tsekov, is the most through the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural think Yanukovych’s mistakes will encourage the Ukrainian Constitution” (Nezavisimaya influential Russian nationalist group on the Preservation, provided a grant to the Gazeta, February 19). The central authori- differentiation between the liberals and peninsula, and is financed by Mr.
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