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The Ukrainian Weekly, 2017 INSIDE: l ‘Retro Lviv’ benefit aims to help Ukraine’s soldiers – page 11 l Community Chronicle: Tucson, Ariz., and Boston – page 14 l Kyiv artist’s works at Delaware Contemporary – page 18 THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXXV No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 $2.00 House of Representatives overwhelmingly passes Patients lose in battle over health care in Ukraine by Mark Raczkiewycz bill to improve a system that sees Ukrainians die 10 years earlier than their European Russia sanctions bill KYIV – Ulana Suprun wore the blouse in Union peers, according to World Bank data. WASHINGTON – The House of which her grandmother got married at the Stiff resistance by vested interests has Representatives overwhelmingly age of 17 before having to flee Ukraine dur- thwarted Dr. Surprun’s hopes of changing passed a bill expanding sanctions on ing World War II when she was appointed how health is financed. The Soviet-era Russia on July 25 by a vote of 419-3. as first deputy health minister of Ukraine approach still allocates funds based on the The Countering America’s Adversaries on July 22, 2016. number of beds and hospital infrastructure Through Sanctions Act (HR 3364) The Detroit-area native and U.S.-trained instead of the number of patients treated. sanctions Iran, Russia and North radiologist took a selfie dressed in that The country’s Ministry of Health, according Korea for their dangerous and bellig- blouse with Prime Minister Volodymyr to experts at the civil society groups Center. erent actions that undermine the Groysman upon her appointment. She wore ua and the Reanimation Package of Reforms, has not been reformed since inde- United States and its allies. it again when she got appointed as acting minister of health on August 1, 2016, and pendence was re-established in 1991. The bill has an additional North again during Parliament’s first session in Dr. Suprun, who moved to Ukraine in Korea component that the original September of that year after summer break. 2013, soon discovered the pushback to Senate bill did not have, but it is “It was a proud moment that look, ‘your change when she first addressed Parliament expected to pass in the Senate with grandmother left Ukraine and now her during a weekly government question-and- the original bipartisan support. granddaughter came back’ …and she came answer session on September 9, 2016. The Senate had passed its version back as first deputy minister,” Dr. Suprun told “I walked into Parliament for the first Health Ministry of Ukraine of the sanctions bill by a vote of 98-2 The Ukrainian Weekly in her office on July 18. time as acting minister. This is cool, you back on June 15. Dr. Ulana Suprun in her grandmother’s Now acting health minister for nearly a embroidered blouse that she wore when know, we’re going to work with our bud- Both the Senate and House ver- year, the Ukrainian American has been dies in the legislature… and it was basically sions of the bill allow Congress to she was appointed as Ukraine’s acting accused of trying to commit “genocide” minister of health on August 1, 2016. an onslaught of questions and insults and block the administration from unilat- against the Ukrainian nation for her vision of screaming from Parliament,” Dr. Suprun erally lifting or scaling back sanctions overhauling a failing health care system that pro-presidential factions – by the Prosecutor recalled. “I was a little taken aback by this. imposed against Moscow. Both bolster the Group of Seven industrialized democra- General’s Office, the Security Service of Because it was the opening session by economic sanctions imposed on cies, the World Health Organization (WHO) Ukraine and Parliament’s Audit Chamber. Parliament. They first sang the national Russia after it annexed Crimea and and the World Bank have backed. A third, unprecedented parliamentary anthem… and then I couldn’t even hear invaded eastern Ukraine in 2014. Furthermore, her ministry has, over the audit was under way when The Ukrainian myself over the speakers, nothing.” The measure, as amended by the course of a year, faced corruption probes – Weekly interviewed the acting minister this The annual budget for Ukraine’s health- based on allegations from lawmakers month. It took place when key members of (Continued on page 12) opposed to her plans, including from the the Verkhovna Rada derailed a vote for her (Continued on page 9) U.S. envoy cites “astonishing” number Envoy: U.S. considering of ceasefire violations in “hot war” sending arms to Ukraine Current Time TV by Christopher Miller RFE/RL PARIS – The new U.S. special envoy for efforts to end the conflict in eastern KYIV – The new U.S. special envoy for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, says Washington is Ukraine peace negotiations said he was considering sending Kyiv weapons to help stunned by the number of ceasefire viola- government forces defend themselves tions in the country’s war-torn east after against Russia-backed separatists. making his first visit to the region. Providing lethal defensive weapons Kurt Volker, who was recently appointed would allow Kyiv to “defend itself if Russia as Washington’s point man for talks on were to take further steps against Ukrainian ending the war between Kyiv’s forces and territory,” Ambassador Volker told Current Russia-backed separatists in eastern Time TV in an interview in Paris on July 25. Ukraine, made the comment in a July 23 “Russia says it won’t do that and isn’t interview after spending the day at the doing that, so then there should be no risk frontlines of the conflict. to anybody, if that’s the case,” said Mr. “The level of ceasefire violations on a daily Volker, who was appointed on July 7 and basis is astonishing,” Ambassador Volker told visited towns near the frontlines in eastern RFE/RL by telephone from a train bound for Ukraine on July 23. Kyiv, where he was set to hold talks with President Donald Trump’s administra- Ukrainian officials the following day. tion “is now reviewing where the Obama U.S. Embassy Kyiv Mr. Volker’s assessment came hours after Ambassador Kurt Volker, U.S. (left) special representative for Ukraine negotiations, administration left it, considering whether he told a news conference in Kramatorsk, toured Avdiyivka and Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine on July 23. Accompanied by we should provide defensive arms to the headquarters of Kyiv’s military opera- U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch (far right), he received briefs from Ukraine or not,” he said. “So that’s the state tion against the separatists, that Ukraine is Ukrainian government and military officials in order to better understand the situa- of play.” tion on the ground. Ambassadors Volker and Yovanovitch also met with civil society (Continued on page 19) groups and victims of Russian aggression in Avdiyivka. (Continued on page 13) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 No. 31 ANALYSIS Overview of the Russian maritime threat Russia, EU concerned about sanctions refusal to do so would be likely to trigger political backlash in Washington, given the PRAGUE – Russia and the European ongoing FBI and congressional investiga- to Ukraine: Mariupol and Odesa at stake Union are both expressing concern about tions into Russia’s alleged meddling in the proposed new U.S. sanctions against 2016 election and contacts between Trump by Ihor Kabanenko naftogaz and has begun the illegal extrac- Moscow, focusing in particular on how they campaign associates and Russian officials. Eurasia Daily Monitor tion of Ukrainian natural gas (Interfax, July might affect joint energy projects. Russian But two senior U.S. senators said on July 23 28, 2016; Epravda.com.ua, April 28, 2017). President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman and that the legislation is likely to pass the The Black Sea region has for centuries Since then, Moscow has also begun lay- EU officials spoke on July 24, a day after the Senate with enough support to override a played a key role in Russia’s southwestern ing gas pipelines from Russia to Crimea via White House said that President Donald policy. In the Russo-Turkish War (1768- the Kerch Strait and has launched the first Trump is open to new legislation that would possible presidential veto. (RFE/RL, with 1774), Russia took the opportunity to create stage of its so-called “Energy Bridge” to slap fresh sanctions on Russia and limit his reporting by RFE/RL correspondent Rikard naval forces in Crimea. And during subse- connect Crimea’s electricity grid with ability to ease or lift them by himself. The Jozwiak in Brussels, Reuters and TASS) quent wars with the Ottoman Empire, the Russia’s. In addition, 15 expensive mobile U.S. Senate and House of Representatives Trump accuses Ukraine of ‘sabotage’ Russian Empire moved into Bessarabia, the gas-turbine electricity stations were reached agreement on the legislation last Caucasus and the Balkans. In 1791, the Sea of installed. Despite these efforts, problems week, and the House passed it on July 25 by WASHINGTON – A tweet by U.S. President Azov became an internal Russian waterway, with water, gas and electricity still exist. a vote of 419-3. Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Donald Trump on July 25 accused Ukraine of and the Russian state then concentrated its Hence, the threat remains high that Russia Dmitry Peskov, said that Russia is “working trying to “sabotage” his campaign, without efforts on strengthening its position along may try to create a “land corridor to with our European partners on implement- offering any evidence. Ukraine’s Embassy the northwestern part of the Black Sea.
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