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The Ukrainian Weekly 2010, No.15 www.ukrweekly.com InsIde: • Ukraine’s democracy in danger, says Motyl – page 3. • Concert crowns Dumka’s 60-year legacy – page 11. • KLK ski races held at Hunter Mountain – page 12. ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal Wnon-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXVIII No.15 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 $1/$2 in Ukraine Ukrainian Days in D.C. promote Constitutional Court ruling OKs U.S.-Ukraine strategic partnership controversial formation of coalition Ukrainian National Information Service U.S.-Ukraine relations and their vital role by Zenon Zawada as community advocates. Kyiv Press Bureau WASHINGTON – Within the frame- Remarks at the briefing session were work of programs to promote closer rela- offered by the host of the morning gather- KYIV – Ukraine’s pro-Moscow gov- tions between the Ukrainian American ing, Mark Brzezinski, partner at ernment has gained a Constitutional Court community and their members of McGuireWoods LLP and former director ruling that legitimizes the ruling coali- Congress, the Ukrainian Congress of the National Security Council Bureau tion, which legal experts had said violates Committee of America (UCCA) and its for Russian and Eurasian Affairs. the Constitution of Ukraine by allowing Washington bureau, the Ukrainian Remarks were delivered also by Lawrence the parliamentary majority to be formed National Information Service (UNIS), Silverman, director of the Office of by individual national deputies, as well as organized Ukrainian Days in Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus Affairs at deputies’ factions. Washington on March 17-18. the U.S. Department of State; Bryan President Viktor Yanukovych said he With the recent political changes in Ardouny, executive director of the accepts the court’s ruling, adding, “We Ukraine, the Ukrainian American com- Armenian Assembly of America (AAA); must learn to live by the law,” while munity’s advocacy of sustained and and Michael Sawkiw Jr., director of the opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko enhanced U.S. relations with Ukraine is Ukrainian National Information Service. denounced it as “unprecedentedly shame- of the utmost importance. In fact, with The State Department representative ful.” She characterized it as a political President Viktor Yanukovych’s first offi- spoke about the recent elections in cial visit to the United States scheduled ruling “made to order by the new authori- Ukraine and the work necessary to for April for the Global Summit on ties” in Ukraine that “tarnishes the foun- strengthen the two countries’ relationship Nuclear Security, Ukrainian Days orga- dations of democracy in the country.” as defined by the Charter on Strategic nizers noted that the Ukrainian communi- Opposition forces are demanding the Alexander Prokopenko/www.tymoshenko.ua Partnership, signed by Secretary of State ty can and must play an important role in establishment of a special commission to Hillary Clinton and Minister of Foreign Opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko advocating a strong strategic partnership investigate pressures brought to bear on Affairs Petro Poroshenko in December delivers a statement on April 8 denounc- between the Washington and Kyiv for the Constitutional Court judges in order to 2009. ing the Constitutional Court’s ruling on betterment of the reform efforts in gain the ruling. As provided in the strategic partner- the formation of a majority coalition. Ukraine. The government’s illegal formation has ship agreement, a commission was The two-day advocacy event began been accompanied by other abuses of the formed as a mechanism to establish a as an aggressive campaign of integrating promptly at 9 a.m. on St. Patrick’s Day, law initiated by the Yanukovych adminis- greater dialogue between the United Ukraine into the Russian sphere of influ- March 17, with a briefing session held at tration, including illegally canceling elec- States and Ukraine on a wide array of ence. the McGuireWoods LLP law firm. Over a tions, derailing Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic issues ranging from energy reform and “Democracy is under threat in dozen representatives from the Ukrainian integration and intimidating Ukrainian trade to cultural affairs and security Ukraine,” said Dr. Taras Kuzio, a senior community from California, nationalists. issues. research fellow at the Chair of Ukrainian Massachusetts, Illinois, Virginia, The troubling signals, emerging within Mr. Brzezinski expressed his perspec- Studies at the University of Toronto. “It’s Maryland, Connecticut, New Jersey and a month of the formation of Ukraine’s tive for the development of bilateral rela- a mindset of anything goes, and pick and New York gathered to interact with their new Cabinet of Ministers, have caused tions between the two states and the tre- choose whatever laws you want to fellow community leaders and to partici- observers to warn of a return to authori- enforce. They’re going to keep pushing pate in a discussion regarding (Continued on page 4) tarianism in Ukraine that prevailed under former President Leonid Kuchma, as well (Continued on page 19) Communists in Zaporizhia plan to erect monument to Stalin RFE/RL brown plague of the 20th century – fas- cism – and who transformed Zaporizhia ZAPORIZHIA, Ukraine – from a provincial town into a powerful Communist Party officials in the south- industrial center.” eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia Bandera and Shukhevych are World say they are planning to erect a monu- War II-era nationalist leaders who are ment to former Soviet leader Joseph viewed by many in eastern Ukraine as Stalin in early May, RFE/RL’s traitors because they fought against Ukrainian Service reports. Soviet forces, although they are viewed Oleksander Zubchevskyi, a by many in the western part of the Communist Party deputy on the country as heroes. Zaporizhia City Council, told RFE/RL Mr. Zubchevskyi said the monument on March 29 that the idea for the Stalin to Stalin will be about three meters monument came from World War II high and mounted on granite. The veterans. Communist Party has not disclosed He said they “resent the fact that either the name of the sculptor – saying there are monuments to the criminals UNIS only that he is from Kyiv – or the exact [Stepan] Bandera and [Roman] location of the monument. Ukrainian Days participants meet with Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (standing, Shukhevych in western Ukraine, and It would be the first new Stalin mon- third from left). Among the visitors are Michael and Anna Koziupa (standing, we have no monument to the person second and third from right), the congressman’s constituents from New Jersey’s who saved the entire world from the (Continued on page 19) 11th District. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 No. 15 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Pro-Russian old guard returns Yanukovych on NATO programs as Security Service of Ukraine Chief Valeriy Khoroshkovsky also became council mem- KYIV – Ukraine should move from bers. (Ukrinform) to run Ukrainian security forces short-term to medium-term programs of by Taras Kuzio Vasyl Vartsaba served as a militia offi- cooperation with NATO, Ukraine’s President Constitutional Court rules on immunity cer and was removed in December 2004. Viktor Yanukovych said on April 6, accord- Eurasia Daily Monitor KYIV – The Constitutional Court (CC) Seven months later he was placed on an ing to presidential press-service. “Ukraine has allowed limits on the immunity from President Viktor Yanukovych and Interpol international watch list. He should organize cooperation with NATO Prime Minister Mykola Azarov are both helped to organize the first incident of and move from short-term to medium-term prosecution of Ukrainian national deputies ignoring the sensitivities of Orange west- violence that shook the 2004 elections in development programs,” Mr. Yanukovych and gave a negative response to altering the ern and central Ukraine by returning to the Mukachiv mayoral election in April said during a meeting of the newly reorga- president’s immunity, CC Chairman Andriy positions of power individuals from of that year (EDM, May 5, 2004). Mr. nized National Security and Defense Stryzhak said in a statement released on Leonid Kuchma’s second term in office. Vartsaba is to head the Galician region of Council of Ukraine (NSDC). He added that April 7. Thus, the court said that the clause Moreover, defectors from the Kuchma Ivano-Frankivsk’s branch of the MIA, a policy of non-aligned status is the most of the bill demanding restrictions on parlia- regime, who had received asylum in while his deputy in 2004, Viktor Rusyn, appropriate and fair response to the geopo- mentary immunity from prosecution com- Russia out of fear that Viktor Yushchenko will head the Zakarpattia branch of the litical situation in which Ukraine finds itself. plies with the requirements of Articles 157 would implement the Orange Revolution MIA. Mr. Rusyn spent six months in jail President Yanukovych noted that Ukraine is and 158 of the Constitution of Ukraine. At slogan of “Bandits to Prison,” are in the in 2005 for his part in election fraud and interested in developing its own concept of a the same time, the Constitutional Court process of returning to Ukraine (Eurasia violence in the previous year (Ukrayinska renewed system of European security, which ruled that a clause of a bill on the amend- Daily Monitor, April 14, May 25, 2005). Pravda, March 21). would take into account the opportunities ments to the Constitution regarding restric- On March 21 Ukrayinska Pravda Defectors currently living in Russia, and interests of countries participating in tions on the president’s guarantees of immu- reported the return of two individuals – ready to return to Ukraine, include the military-political blocs, as well as non- nity from prosecution conflicts with Article Borys Kolesnikov and Viktor Tikhonov – former leader of the Party of Regions in aligned and neutral countries. On April 2 157 of Ukraine’s basic law. (Ukrinform) involved in organizing the November Odesa, Ruslan Bodelan, and Gen.
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