DOCSLIB.ORG

Homophobic and Transphobic Violence in Contemporary Ukraine: Victims' Experiences and Patterns of Policing by Roman Leksikov A

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Homophobic and Transphobic Violence in Contemporary Ukraine: Victims' Experiences and Patterns of Policing by Roman Leksikov A Homophobic and Transphobic Violence in Contemporary Ukraine: Victims’ Experiences and Patterns of Policing by Roman Leksikov A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in GENDER AND SOCIAL JUSTICE STUDIES Department of WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES University of Alberta © Roman Leksikov, 2019 Abstract This study examines homophobic and transphobic violence in contemporary Ukraine: victims’ experiences and patterns of policing and prosecuting by the law enforcement and judicial systems. A range of research methods - primarily in-depth semi-formal interviews and document analysis - were employed to conduct this study. The first chapter examines the experiences of LGBTI+ victims who faced hate and bias- motivated assaults; the ways they navigate public space in; as well as their attitudes to the criminal justice system before and after experiencing the major violent attacks. Also, this part examines the patterns of the violent situations from a micro-sociological point of view. The second chapter is dedicated to the issues of policing and prosecuting of such crimes by the law enforcement officers. This part examines the first encounters of LGBTI+ people by the police officers, the language police officers use while interacting with LGBTI+ victims, existing practices of recognition and categorization of these attacks, patterns of investigation and prosecution, and related issues. A separate focus is on the effect of informalities and extra- legalities on anti-queer violence policing and the changes in policing and prosecuting practices in the context of the Police Reform (2015). The last chapter is dedicated to the issues of the judicial system’s response to violence against LGBTI+ people, and also examines collateral damages and long-time consequences of victimization and justice-seeking process. The study is informed by multiple theoretical frameworks and approaches - queer criminology, critical legal studies, critical criminology, pure sociology, structural functionalism, micro-sociology and symbolic interactionism, and employs a wide range of theories, applying the concepts of structural and cultural violence, street-level bureaucracy, contact zone etc. to ii analyze the issues described above. This thesis seeks to contribute to discussions about the political strategies of LGBTI+ communities and advocacy groups towards the criminal justice system and anti-violence policies, such as: the peculiarities of cultural violence against LGBTI+ people and the role of the criminal justice system in these violent structures; the advancement or politicization of hate crimes policing and resistance to it within the criminal justice system; and the capacity of agency and discretion law enforcement officers have while dealing with hate and bias-motivated attacks. iii The thesis is an original work by Roman Leksikov. The fieldwork conducted to undertake this research was approved by the University of Alberta Research Ethics Office by Anne Malena on July 17, 2018, ID - Pro00081920. No parts of this thesis have been published before the date of defense. iv Acknowledgments I want to thank my supervisor, Dr. Susanne Luhmann, and my second reader, Dr. Jana Grekul for navigating me and my inquiry throughout the process of making research and writing the thesis, providing me with useful suggestions and valuable comments. I am sincerely grateful to the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta for major institutional support of this study! Also, I want to express my gratitude to the institutions that supported this study financially: the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, which provided me with Iwanciw Ukraine Travel Award, the Institute for Sexual Minorities Studies and Services, which awarded me the annual Ronald Gordon Rowswell-O’Connor Graduate Award, and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies that awarded me the annual Dallas Cullen Scholarship in Gender and Social Justice Studies. I want to pay my regards to "Nash Svit" ("Our World") LGBT Human Rights Center, which is located in Kyiv, for their support and engagement in conducting this study. The team of the Center was excited to collaborate on doing this research and kindly helped me to recruit participants for interviews. I want to acknowledge separately the job done by the expert of the Center Sophia Lapina, as well as the contributions of Andrii Kravchuk and Oleksandr Zinchenko. Of course, this research would be impossible without voluntary participation of my interviewees, whom I want to thank for trusting me, and for participating in the study, even while being afraid for their safety. Also, I want to recognize the valuable help of my dear friends Dafna Rachok and Ivan Shmatko, who were supporting me in all possible ways during the period of my master's studies, while conducting fieldwork, and writing the thesis. Besides this, I’d like to specifically acknowledge Dafna for helping me to edit and proofread the final version of this work! v Table of contents: Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Anti-queer Violence: Victims’ Experiences 11 Chapter 2: Criminal Justice System and Anti-Queer Hate-motivated Violence 40 Chapter 3: Tracking Victims’ Life-Course after Police 75 Conclusions 90 Where Do We Go from Here? 96 Bibliography 94 Charts 98 vi Table of charts: Chart 1: Age of Participants 104 Chart 2: Participants’ Current Place of Residence 104 Chart 3: Participants’ Occupation 105 Chart 4: Participants’ Gender Identity 105 Chart 5: Participants’ Sexual Identity 106 vii Introduction The issue of policing of homophobic and transphobic hate crimes has become one of the most debated questions in Western academia and activist environment (Perry 2008, Peterson and Panfil 2013). From the 1970s onwards, in most Western countries LGBTI+ people organized to overcome the problems of invisibility, silence, marginalization as well as criminalization by state institutions (Barry 1995). During this time, queer communities who previously were subjects of criminalizing politics by institutions of state violence (like the police) now have become a subject of state protection, while anti-queer hate speech has become criminalized and anti-queer hate crimes started to be punishable under the law, and this way, the very notion of homophobic and transphobic hate crime was constructed (Tiby 2007). This shift caused a broad debate between two opposing camps of academics and activists. On the one hand, liberal LGBTI+ movements often rely on state support and expect state institutions to protect them from homophobic and transphobic acts. This approach is generally based on the theory of contributive justice and several other criminological theories, like the rational choice theory, and this position implies that expanding policing and incarceration practices are an effective and ethical way to deal with crime. On the other, radical and left queer movements often strongly oppose this way of thinking and promote the opinion that expanding policing and criminal justice system will never protect vulnerable social groups from assault, crime, and discrimination. To prove their position, radical queer activists often appeal to the terms “carceral feminism” and “carceral queer movement”1 (Spade, 2015) to argue for the impossibility of making structural changes by dealing with the effects instead of the causes. They criticize the attempt to individualize the structural problems and argue that the first approach only reinforces and strengthens existing social inequalities, and try to emphasize the problem of queer investment into the justice institutions and retributive justice (Ball 2014, 548-549; Meyer 2014). Although both these paradigms are theoretically grounded to a certain extent and rely on ethical reasoning, there is little sociological research that examines how both these approaches 1 The terms “carceral feminism” and “carceral queer movement” usually refer to feminist and queer political approaches that built on the belief that harsher penal measures and increased incarceration of those who commit offences against women or LGBTI+ people, are effective and ethical tools to deal with anti-women and anti-queer crimes. These terms also signify the relevant advocacy aspirations, which are directed at the creation and enforcement of the relevant legislation and state policies. 1 work in practice. Queer criminology is a newly-born branch of the social research and is not institutionalized yet. As Mathew Ball argues ( 2016, 56), the construction of opposing camps as described above is not helpful when conducting comprehensive studies on the relationships between LGBTI+ people and the criminal justice system. Moreover, these two approaches simplify social reality because, for instance, there are examples of how different criminal justice institutions may treat LGBTI+ people differently in the same society, at the same time (Dwyer, 2014, 156). One of the main goals of queer criminological research, a tradition that this study strives to contribute to, was framed by Matthew Ball: to explore how sexual orientation and gender identity as non-deviant differences - in combination with other differences - may influence victimization, involvement in crime, and experiences in the criminal justice system more broadly (Ball 2014, 541). However, it is also essential to understand that the results of previous queer criminological studies, which were produced in the First World countries, can only be applied to developed Western societies. And there
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Prokhorova L Hryshko S Nepsha O.Pdf
    1 2 Innovative Approaches to Ensuring the Quality of Education, Scientific Research and Technological Processes Edited by Magdalena Gawron-Łapuszek Yana Suchukova Series of monographs Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Applied Arts Katowice School of Technology Monograph 43 Publishing House of University of Technology, Katowice, 2021 3 Editorial board : Michał Ekkert – PhD, Vice-Dean for Student Affairs, University of Technology, Katowice Magdalena Gawron-Łapuszek – PhD, University of Technology, Katowice Tetyana Nestorenko – Professor WST, PhD, Associate Professor, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University (Ukraine) Aleksander Ostenda – Professor WST, PhD, University of Technology, Katowice Yana Suchikova – DSc, Professor, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University (Ukraine) Magdalena Wierzbik-Strońska – mgr., University of Technology, Katowice Reviewers: Igor BOGDANOV – Head of Berdyansk State Pedagogical University, Doctor of Education, Professor; Gennady SHISHKIN – Professor of the Department of Physics and Methods of Teaching Physics at BSPU, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, associate professor Nadiya DUBROVINA – PhD, CSc., Associate Professor, School of Economics and Management in Public Administration in Bratislav Series of monographs Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Applied Arts University of Technology, Katowice Monograph · 43 The authors bear full responsible for the text, quotations and illustrations Copyright by University of Technology, Katowice, 2021 ISBN 978 – 83 – 957298 – 6 – 7 Editorial compilation Publishing
    [Show full text]
  • Straddling Russia and Europe
    Straddling Russia and Europe A Compendium of Recent Jamestown Analysis on Belarus January 2013 Straddling Russia and Europe A Compendium of Recent Jamestown Analysis on Belarus Washington, D.C. January 2013 THE JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION Published in the United States by The Jamestown Foundation 1111 16th St. N.W. Suite 320 Washington, D.C. 20036 http://www.jamestown.org Copyright © The Jamestown Foundation, January 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this report may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written consent. For copyright permissions information, contact The Jamestown Foundation. The views expressed in this report are those of the contributing authors and not necessarily those of The Jamestown Foundation. For more information on this report or The Jamestown Foundation, email [email protected]. JAMESTOWN’S MISSION The Jamestown Foundation’s mission is to inform and educate policymakers and the broader policy community about events and trends in those societies, which are strategically or tactically important to the United States and which frequently restrict access to such information. Utilizing indigenous and primary sources, Jamestown’s material is delivered without political bias, filter or agenda. It is often the only source of information that should be, but is not always, available through official or intelligence channels, especially with regard to Eurasia and terrorism. Origins Launched in 1984 after Jamestown’s late president and founder William Geimer’s work with Arkady Shevchenko, the highest-ranking Soviet official ever to defect when he left his position as undersecretary general of the United Nations, the Jamestown Foundation rapidly became the leading source of information about the inner workings of closed totalitarian societies.
    [Show full text]
  • PROJECT Conference Proceedings Sworld
    PROJECT Conference proceedings SWorld Modern problems and ways of their solution in science, transport, production and education‘ 2012 Supported by: o STATE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF THE MERCHANT MARINE OF UKRAINE Odessa National Maritime University o o Ukrainian National Academy of Railway Transport o Institute for Entrepreneurship and morehozyaystva ISSN 2306-2525 Please use the following format to cite material from this book (italics indicate the fields to change to your data): Author(s), "Title of Paper," in Conference proceedings SWorld. Modern problems and ways of their solution in science, transport, production and education‘ 2012, edited by Kupriyenko S, Article CIT Number. Editorial board: Alexandr G. Shibaev – Doctor of Technical Sciences, Prof. Alexandr S. Lesnik – Ph.D., director of State research and development institute of the merchant marine of Ukraine Alexandr V. Yatsenko – associate professor, rector of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and morehozyaystva Sergiy M. Goncharuk – Doctor of Technical Sciences, prof., Member of the Russian Academy of Transport and the International Informatization Academy, Honored Worker of Transport of Russia Denis V. Lomotko – Doctor of Technical Sciences, Vice-Rector of the Ukrainian State Academy of Railway Transport, Corr. Transport Academy of Ukraine Inna A. Lapkina – Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor. Sergiy I. Rylov – Ph.D. in Economics, Professor. Julia L. Kantarovich – Ph.D. in art history science Elena V. Kirillova – PhD, associate professor Petrov I - PhD, associate professor. Demidova V - Ph.D in Pedagogical Sciences Sergiy V. Kuprienko – Ph.D Alexandra D. Fedorova Published by: Kupriyenko Sergiy Vasilyovich on Project SWorld P.O. Box 38, Odessa, 65001 Ukraine Telephone: +380667901205 e-mail: [email protected] site: www.sworld.com.ua The publisher is not responsible for the validity of the information or for any outcomes resulting from reliance thereon.
    [Show full text]
  • Ukrainian Sociology in the 21St Century: Theory, Methods, Research Results 1
    Ukrainian Sociology in the 21st Century: Theory, Methods, Research Results 1 Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Institute of Sociology Sociological Association of Ukraine Ukrainian Sociology in the 21st Century ______________________ Theory, Methods, Research Results Edited by Vil Bakirov Yevhen Golovakha Kharkiv 2018 2 Ukrainian Sociology in the 21st Century: Theory, Methods, Research Results УДК 316(477)"20" U 31 Reviewers: Valeriy Vorona — NAS Akademician of Ukraine, Doctor of Sciences; Pal Tamas — Senior Research Fellow, HAS Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Sociology, Dr. habilitov. Cover illustration: picture “The Moon over the River” by Anatoliy Kryvolap (2008, canvas, oil, 150х150) from the “Kaniv” series of “The Ukrainian motives” cycle. Approved for publication by the Academic Board of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Minutes No 9 of 17.09.2018) Ukrainian Sociology in the 21st Century: Theory, Methods, Research Results U 31 / edited by Vil Bakirov, Yevhen Golovakha. — Kharkiv : V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 2018. — 560 с. ISBN 978-966-285-537-1 The monograph presents the articles by leading Ukrainian sociologists focused on the problems of sociological theory and methodology, in particular, the tendencies of post-Soviet social transformation, political, economic, social and cultural aspects of the development of contemporary Ukrainian society. Thanks to this edition, English- speaking colleagues will be able to get acquainted with the most interesting and ambitious research projects of Ukrainian sociologists in the XXI century. The book contains both new and previously published articles by the representatives of different generations of Ukrainian sociological thought coming from different regions research centers, theoretical schools and methodological platforms.
    [Show full text]
  • 2008 Hokkaido-Toyako G8 Summit Final Compliance Report
    The G8 Research Group at the Munk Centre for International Studies at Trinity College in the University of Toronto Presents the 2008 Hokkaido-Toyako G8 Summit Final Compliance Report 10 July 2008 to 26 June 2009 Prepared by Allison Martell, Sarah Yun, Erin Fitzgerald and Marina Larionova with Jenilee Guebert, The University of Toronto G8 Research Group and The State University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) G8 Research Centre 30 June 2009 www.g8.utoronto.ca www.g8live.org [email protected] Contents Preface ................................................................................................................................. 4 Summary ............................................................................................................................. 5 Table A: 2008 Hokkaido-Toyako Compliance Scores ....................................................... 8 Table B: G8 Compliance by Country, 1996-2008 .............................................................. 9 Research Team .................................................................................................................. 10 1. Finance [3] ................................................................................................................ 12 2. Energy: Efficiency and Diversification [26] ............................................................. 39 3. Intellectual Property Rights [38] ............................................................................... 54 4. Corruption [43] ........................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Russian Politics Toward Ukraine: Was There Ever a Strategic Partnership?
    Przegląd Strategiczny 2019, Issue 12 Olga BRUSYLOVSKA DOI : 10.14746/ps.2019.1.9 Odessa Mechnikov National University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0519-4206 Igor KOVAL Odessa Mechnikov National University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3192-5044 Russian Politics Toward Ukraine: was there Ever a Strategic Partnership? Relations between Russia and Ukraine through the prism of strategic partnership con- cept were discussed in much research in Ukraine and abroad. Among others there was the book of Michael Emerson, Nathalie Tocci, Marius Vahl, and Nicholas Whyte where scientists thought about rivalries of the European Union and Russia on the space that the new Russian political vocabulary calls the “Near Abroad” (Emerson, Tocci, Vahl, Whyte, 2001). Ukrainian researchers first of all tried to compare the case of Russian- Ukrainian relations with other Ukrainian partners (������������Парахонський������������, 2005� Парахонсь���������- ���, Яворська, 2011� ��в�в���в, 2009� Седля�, 2005). Yulia Sedliar revealed the peculiarities of the Russian-Ukrainian strategic partnership before the Orange Revolu- tion. For her even then the unequal nature of our relations stood in the way of our com- mon politics in different spheres of cooperation. However, these works do not embrace a period after 2013 and does not give an opportunity to reduce the character of Russian politics in Ukraine throughout the period of Ukrainian independence. The nature of the development of Russian-Ukrainian relations is not clear and needs to be revealed. The hypothesis of this research was that these states never had a rich level of strategic partnership (despite the officially proclaimed status), but al- ways remained a sort of “negative strategic dependence” because of the high level of asymmetry in their relations.
    [Show full text]
  • St Petersburg Russia - Global View of Internet Peering - 27-28 May 2013 Martin J
    Global view of Internet Peering Why its Good for Everyone Internet Peering from a Global Networks Point of View RIPE ENOG5 St. Petersburg Russia 27th - 28th May 2013 Martin J. Levy, Director IPv6 Strategy Hurricane Electric Agenda !! Why Internet Exchange Points !! How Networks look when they interconnect !! Large Global Networks !! Summary RIPE ENOG5 - St Petersburg Russia - Global view of Internet Peering - 27-28 May 2013 Martin J. Levy Hurricane Electric 2 INTERNET EXCHANGE POINTS February 95 IXPs can start from very simple beginnings RIPE ENOG5 - St Petersburg Russia - Global view of Internet Peering - 27-28 May 2013 Martin J. Levy Hurricane Electric 3 Internet Exchange Points !! Generic IXP pitch … !! Global IXP pitch … "! Internet Exchange Points "! Every IXP (regional, national (IXPs) are a good idea or international) improves Internet services locally "! Peering is a good idea "! IXPs get cities (or regions) onto a good mindset when it "! Local or regional self-reliance comes to telecom is a good idea infrastructure builds "! Critical services (DNS, NTP, "! Some networks (especially etc) are a good idea networks like ours) actively look for IXPs as a sign of mature cities "! The Internet is not going away; in fact it’s growing RIPE ENOG5 - St Petersburg Russia - Global view of Internet Peering - 27-28 May 2013 Martin J. Levy Hurricane Electric 4 A quick reminder – how routing works !! Technically – it’s a very complex subject "! The Internet is a collection of networks "! No network stands alone "! Interconnections are required "! Efficient interconnections are required !! Robustness can be created "! Multi-homing (more than one transit) "! Peering between “like” networks helps "! Diversity (physical & logical) really helps !! Nothing is static! RIPE ENOG5 - St Petersburg Russia - Global view of Internet Peering - 27-28 May 2013 Martin J.
    [Show full text]
  • The Ukrainian Weekly 2009, No.22
    www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE: • Ukraine’s economic crisis: interview with noted economist – page 3. • Premiere of Yurij Luhovy’s documentary on the Holodomor – page 13. • Twin Cities welcome Ukrainian American astronaut – page 16. THEPublished U byKRAINIAN the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW associationEEKLY Vol. LXXVII No.22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 $1/$2 in Ukraine Long-promised children’s hospital It’s Tymoshenko vs Yekhanurov turns into public relations mess in latest government scandal by Zenon Zawada by Zenon Zawada Kyiv Press Bureau Kyiv Press Bureau KYIV – What might have started out as KYIV – The Ukrainian government a well-meaning project has become a pub- was wracked by its latest scandal after lic relations mess for First Lady of Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko Kateryna Yushchenko. accused Defense Minister Yurii After raising funds from the nation’s oli- Yekhanurov of money laundering and garchs and leading Ukraine’s first telethon fraud, demanding his dismissal at the marathon – which involved all the major May 20 Cabinet of Ministers meeting. television networks – for the Children’s Under Mr. Yekhanurov’s direction, the Hospital of the Future, not a brick has been ministry allegedly bought food and fuel at laid despite Ms. Yushchenko’s assurances double their market prices from fake that it would be treating patients by March intermediary enterprises, then pocketed 2009. the difference. He also forged documents “We want to build it in three years with to misappropriate real estate, the prime Official Website of Ukraine’s President money from Ukrainian and foreign corpo- minister alleged, based on Control UNIAN/Oleksander Yurchenko Kateryna Yushchenko rations,” Ms.
    [Show full text]
  • The Conflict–Cooperation Nexus. Politicisation, Security and Domestic Institutions in Eu– Russia Energy Relations
    THE CONFLICT–COOPERATION NEXUS. POLITICISATION, SECURITY AND DOMESTIC INSTITUTIONS IN EU– RUSSIA ENERGY RELATIONS IRINA KUSTOVA A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY TRENTO, ITALY 2014 Copyright © 2014 by Irina Kustova All rights reserved ii DISSERTATION COMMITTEE Internal Members: Prof. Paolo Rosa, University of Trento (Supervisor) Dr. Veronica Lenzi, the Association of Mediterranean Energy Regulators (MEDREG) (Adviser) External Examiners: Prof. Richard Sakwa, University of Kent, UK Prof. Luciano Bozzo, University of Florence, Italy External Reviewer: Prof. Pami Aalto, University of Tampere, Finland iii ABSTRACT Over the last decade, EU–Russia gas relations have witnessed significant deterioration—the bilateral agenda has been narrowed down to ad hoc consultations, disputes over investment and long-term contract provisions have multiplied, and disagreements between the EU and Russia have significantly hindered the multilateral process of the Energy Charter Treaty (the ECT). This deterioration seems to be rather paradoxical in light of high gas interdependence between the EU and Russia and a rich history of well-established cooperation during the Cold War under profound ideological and strategic constraints. In addition, conflictual patterns in EU–Russia gas relations occurred in the beginning of the 2000s, during the period of high oil prices and growing global natural gas demand—the period when enhancement of cooperation would be a more expected outcome. Therefore, the core research question of the thesis addresses the puzzle: why, despite decades of cooperation during the Cold War between Western European countries and the USSR, have EU–Russia gas relations become conflictual since the 2000s? By answering this research question, the study seeks to contribute to the analysis of institutionalisation of energy relations and to reveal factors that lead to cooperative or conflictual outcomes.
    [Show full text]
  • Long-Promised Children's Hospital Turns Into Public Relations Mess It's
    INSIDE: • Ukraine’s economic crisis: interview with noted economist – page 3. • Premiere of Yurij Luhovy’s documentary on the Holodomor – page 13. • Twin Cities welcome Ukrainian American astronaut – page 16. THEPublished U byKRAINIAN the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW associationEEKLY Vol. LXXVII No.22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 $1/$2 in Ukraine Long-promised children’s hospital It’s Tymoshenko vs Yekhanurov turns into public relations mess in latest government scandal by Zenon Zawada by Zenon Zawada Kyiv Press Bureau Kyiv Press Bureau KYIV – What might have started out as KYIV – The Ukrainian government a well-meaning project has become a pub- was wracked by its latest scandal after lic relations mess for First Lady of Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko Kateryna Yushchenko. accused Defense Minister Yurii After raising funds from the nation’s oli- Yekhanurov of money laundering and garchs and leading Ukraine’s first telethon fraud, demanding his dismissal at the marathon – which involved all the major May 20 Cabinet of Ministers meeting. television networks – for the Children’s Under Mr. Yekhanurov’s direction, the Hospital of the Future, not a brick has been ministry allegedly bought food and fuel at laid despite Ms. Yushchenko’s assurances double their market prices from fake that it would be treating patients by March intermediary enterprises, then pocketed 2009. the difference. He also forged documents “We want to build it in three years with to misappropriate real estate, the prime Official Website of Ukraine’s President money from Ukrainian and foreign corpo- minister alleged, based on Control UNIAN/Oleksander Yurchenko Kateryna Yushchenko rations,” Ms.
    [Show full text]
  • Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy of Ukraine
    MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE ODESA MECHNIKOV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE 0 1 'SOCIAL SCIENCES STRATEGIC CULTURE AND FOREIGN POLICY OF UKRAINE Edited by I. Koval, O. Brusylovska, and V. Dubovyk ''< 7 1865 V ODESA ONU 2017 Koval, Igor, Brusylovska, Olga, and Dubovyk, Volodymyr (eds.), Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy of Ukraine (Odesa: Odesa Mechnikov National University Press, 2017. -2 6 2 p.). Odesa Mechnikov National University Press is a department o f the Odesa Mechnikov National University. Odesa Mechnikov National University Dvoryanska, 2 65082 Odesa Tel: +38/048/723-52-54 Fax: +38/048/723-35-15 Email: [email protected] http : //onu. edu .ua/en/ Published in Ukraine by Odesa Mechnikov National University Press Elisavctynska, 12, Odesa, 65082. Published with support by Fulbright Ukraine Proofread by Amber Nickell and Elizabeth Rezun All rights reserved. No part o f this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing o f Odesa Mechnikov National University. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. ISBN 978-617-689-239-7 © Odesa Mechnikov National University Press 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION...............................................................................5 Igor Koval, Olga Brusylovska, and Volodymyr Dubovyk CHAPTER 1. STRATEGIC CULTURE OF UKRAINE AS THE RESEARCH INSTRUMENT OF THE UKRAINIAN FOREIGN POLICY......................................... 7 Olga Brusylovska and Polina Sinovets CHAPTER 2. STRATEGIC CULTURE OF UKRAINE AND ITS NON-NUCLEAR STATUS.................................................... 20 Polina Sinovets CHAPTER 3. EURO - ATLANTIC INTEGRATION OF UKRAINE AND RELATIONS WITH NATO .............................
    [Show full text]
  • The Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic Society
    JOURNAL OF THE UKRAINIAN PHILATELIC AND NUMISMATIC SOCIETY GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY ISSUE Vol. 49 No. 2 (85) 2001 ISSN 0198-6252 УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ФІЛАТЕЛІСТ Semiannual Journal of the UKRAINIAN PHILATELIST Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic Society CONTENTS Page Then and Now (Message from the President) by Ingert Kuzych 1 ARTICLES The UPNS: A 50 Year Journey by Karen J. Lemiski 4 UPNS Chapter Histories various 18 UKRAINPEX Commemorative Covers, 1991-2000 by Ingert Kuzych 32 Ukraine’s Official Transliteration System by George D. Fedyk 46 Announcements 48 A Master Artist for a Master Ensemble by Ingert Kuzych 49 A Stinging Wit: The Artist as a Cartoonist by Ingert Kuzych 52 Numismatic Artwork by John Jaciw by George D. Fedyk 53 More Philatelic Artwork by John Jaciw by George D. Fedyk 54 Souvenir Seals of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus by George D. Fedyk 55 Ukrainian Topics on Stamps of the World, 1990-2000 (Excluding Ukraine, With Additions for Previous Years) by Andrij D. Solczanyk 60 European Trip Report by Val Zabijaka 91 PUBLICATION REVIEWS A Specialized Catalog Worth Getting by Jay T. Carrigan 92 The Austro-Hungarian Army in Ukraine, 1914-1918 by Ingert Kuzych 94 A Unique New Product for Ukrainian Philatelists by Ingert Kuzych 96 Provisionals Catalog Continues to Impress Press Release 98 The Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic Society (UPNS) seeks The editor reserves the right to make manuscript corrections and to unite all collectors of Ukrainian materials and is particularly will not accept any articles unless they are signed by the author. dedicated to the promotion of Ukrainian stamp, coin, and medal Views and opinions expressed in by-lined articles do not collecting.
    [Show full text]