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The Ukrainian Weekly 2014, No.35 www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE: l Lies, damned lies and Russian disinformation – page 3 l Evening at the Breakers recalls the Maidan – page 4 l Soyuzivka’s summer camps: a wrap-up – centerfold THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXXII No. 35 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 2014 $2.00 Mark Paslawsky, known as “Franko” Minsk brings few results, of the Donbas battalion, buried in Kyiv as Putin escalates war Official Website of the President of Ukraine At the summit in Minsk (from left) are: President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka of Belarus, President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine, the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, Vice- President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger, and European Commissioner for Trade Karel De Gucht. by Zenon Zawada service of the Ukrainian government’s anti- terrorist operation. Those reports were KYIV – Ukrainian President Petro confirmed by the U.S. government. Poroshenko met on August 26 in Minsk with “The new columns of Russian tanks and Russian President Vladimir Putin for the sec- heavy armaments that are crossing Ukraine’s ond time since he took office in June. During border are evidence that a direct counterof- the meeting they reached minor agreements fensive has already begun,” tweeted U.S. but failed to agree to de-escalate the Donbas Serhij Marchenko Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt on war or even seriously discuss a ceasefire. August 26, during the Minsk summit. KYIV – Patriarch Sviatoslav delivers the eulogy as he faces the coffin of Mark Instead, as he shook hands with Mr. Mr. Putin’s decision to escalate the war, Paslawsky at the August 26 funeral at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church at Poroshenko with one hand, Mr. Putin was rather than seek a face-saving solution as Askold’s Grave in Kyiv. Born in New York, Paslawsky, 55, took Ukrainian citizen- escalating the armed fighting with the proposed by Mr. Poroshenko at the summit, ship this year and joined the Donbas battalion to fight the Russian-backed forces other as the Russian Armed Forces acceler- renewed the alarm of Western leaders. in the Donetsk region, where he was shot three times in the back on August 19, ated the delivery of military hardware, dying shortly after. He was buried at Askold’s Grave, becoming only the second arms and fighters, according to the press (Continued on page 17) Ukrainian to be accorded that honor. Poroshenko sets early vote, launches political party by Zenon Zawada first time in Ukrainian society, there won’t based on the rules approved in 2012, in Yurii Lutsenko, the former internal be arguments over Ukraine’s geopolitical which half the deputies will be elected by affairs minister who became a political KYIV – President Petro Poroshenko vector.” single-winner, single-mandate districts, prisoner under the Yanukovych adminis- signed a presidential decree on August 27 The most popular political parties are while the other half will be elected on tration, was elected the head of the dismissing the seventh convocation of the the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, the Radical closed party lists (in which voters only Poroshenko Bloc. His name will appear first Verkhovna Rada and setting early parlia- Party of Ukraine led by National Deputy choose a party). in the closed list voting. mentary elections for October 26. Oleh Lyashko, the Batkivshchyna party led The presidential decree also signified “Today we have two fronts: the domestic The elections are expected by political by former Prime Minister Yulia the launch of the campaign season. Mr. one, where criminal officials and the oligar- observers to remove a large chunk of pro- Tymoshenko, the Ukrainian Democratic Poroshenko wasted no time in organizing a chy are trying to maintain the old orders, Russian deputies from Parliament and cre- Alliance for Reform (UDAR) led by Kyiv City congress on August 27 for his Solidarnist and a foreign front, where the children of ate a solid majority that supports Ukraine’s Council Chair Vitali Klitschko, the Civic party, which has been an empty shell ever Genghis Khan are trying to take the best integration into the European Union (EU). Position led by former Defense Minister since it was registered in 2000. sons of Ukraine and its will to a European “For the first time, there won’t be argu- Anatoliy Grytsenko and the Svoboda The congress voted to rename the party future,” he said in his acceptance speech. ments over language, churches and strate- nationalist party led by Oleh Tiahnybok, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, enabling voters Criticizing oligarchs is part of the stan- gic allies in the new Ukrainian parliament,” according to recent polls. All of these forces to better recognize the pro-presidential dard rhetoric of Ukrainian politicians, yet said Sergiy Taran, a founding member of support EU-integration. party on their voting ballots. Election cam- the signs show that Mr. Poroshenko is quite the Volia political party. “For the first time Given that Parliament failed this month paign staffs tabulated that it stands to earn comfortable in their company and doesn’t in the years of independence, there won’t to approve open-list voting for the election at least 30 percent of the vote, easily finish- much want to upset them. be a political division in Ukraine between (in which voters choose candidates nomi- ing first, reported the Ukrayinska Pravda ‘pro-Russian’ and ‘pro-Western.’ For the nated by parties), the voting will occur news site. (Continued on page 15) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 2014 No. 35 WINDOW ON EURASIA Ukrainians now almost unanimous President urgently convenes NSDC We rededicate ourselves to supporting the search for an end to the violence, as we KYIV – Due to the sharp deterioration of mourn another victim of this manufactured the situation in the Donetsk region, in par- in supporting independent Ukraine conflict.” (U.S. Department of State) ticular the deployment of Russian troops by Paul Goble a result of a deterioration in the standard of on Ukrainian territory, President Petro U.S. cites ‘Russian-directed’ battle living and hyperinflation. But even though Vladimir Putin’s Crimean Anschluss, Poroshenko on August 28 cancelled his the economic situation continued to deteri- WASHINGTON – U.S. State Department which was intended among other things to working visit to the Republic of Turkey. “I orate in the mid-1990s, those who wanted spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on August 27 highlight or promote divisions among have made a decision to cancel my working to rejoin Russia fell significantly after the that reports from eastern and southeastern Ukrainians about the status of their coun- visit to the Republic of Turkey due to the 1994 elections. Ukraine “indicate that a Russian-directed try, has had exactly the opposite effect: It sharp deterioration of the situation in the Following Moscow’s intervention in counteroffensive is likely under way” has boosted the share of supporters of Donetsk region, particularly in Chechnya in 1994-1996, the share of against government forces in Ukraine’s independent statehood from 83 percent to Amvrosiyivka and Starobeshevo, as Ukrainians supporting Ukrainian statehood Russian troops were actually brought into Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Ms. Psaki 90 percent – the highest ever. rose again, to 71 percent; but during the eco- Ukraine,” he stated. Mr. Poroshenko said a said that the reports include descriptions In reporting the poll results, Valery nomic crisis of 1997-1998, it fell to 60 per- meeting of the National Security and of “columns of Russian tanks, multiple Khmelko, president of the Kyiv cent. But in 1999-2000, during Mr. Putin’s Defense Council will be convened to elabo- rocket launchers and armored vehicles International Institute of Sociology, said invasion of Chechnya, Ukrainian support for rate a further plan of actions. “The presi- pushing toward communities in southeast- that external threats have caused those independence returned to 72 percent. who did not support the independence of dent must stay in Kyiv today,” he empha- ern Ukraine.” She said they also include In 2003, Mr. Khmelko continued, during reports of “heavy fighting and shelling near the country to do so because of threats and the Tuzla island crisis, backing among sized. Ukraine will urgently initiate the con- the city and airport in Donetsk.” Ms. Psaki to recognize the value of Ukraine for them- Ukrainians for state independence rose to vocation of a U.N. Security Council meeting. said Washington was “concerned by the selves (zn.ua/UKRAINE/podderzhka-neza- 77 percent, although it fell back to 72 per- “The world must provide an assessment of Russian government’s unwillingness to tell visimosti-ukrainy-vyrosla-do-rekord- cent after the conflict was resolved. Then the sharp aggravation of the situation in nyh-90-151320_.html). in August 2008, when Mr. Putin invaded Ukraine,” Mr. Poroshenko noted. He said the truth, even as its soldiers are found 30 But what the figures also show is that – Georgia, Ukrainian support for indepen- Ukraine will ask its European partners to miles [50 kilometers] inside Ukraine” – entirely unintentionally – Mr. Putin has dence rose from 72 percent to 83 percent, call an emergency meeting of the Council of adding that “Russia is sending its young done more than anyone else to promote receding to 72 percent after the crisis. the European Union. The president noted men into Ukraine but are not telling them Ukrainian nation-building, just as Soviet “Year after year,” the Kyiv sociologist that he had made a decision to cancel his where they are going or telling their par- dictator Joseph Stalin did more than any- says, “support for the sovereignty of visit to Turkey despite seven bilateral ents what they are doing.” She also noted one else to promote Ukrainian state-build- Ukraine by Ukrainians had grown [but] the meetings planned within the framework of “reports of wounded Russian soldiers in a ing by adding territories to it in both the process had stabilized.
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