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Sinking Democracy THE LAW ON LANGUAGES OUTRAGES PAGE FREEDOM HOUSE PRESENTS PAGE THE HISTORY OF NATIONAL PAGE THE PUBLIC AND REVEALS NEW ITS LATEST REPORT ON UKRAINE'S SYMBOLS FROM KYIV RuS POLITICAL SCENARIOS 4 FRAGILE DEMOCRACY 6 TO INDEPENDENT UKRAINE 36 № 11 (34) JULY 2012 SINKING DEMOCRACY UKRAINE'S LEADERS HAVE STEERED THE COUNTRY DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO AUTOCRACY WWW.UKRAINIANWEEK.COM FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION Featuring selected content from The Economist |CONTENTS BRIEFING FOCUS Parliament Gone Wild. Again. David Kramer and Robert Nurick A Fragile Democracy Using the language bill and the talk about nations Freedom House’s new report scandal around its illegitimate in transit and Ukraine, how raises the alarm about Ukrainian passing as a cover, the party in power much the memory of a society and government as is pushing through other initiatives democratic experience matters Ukraine’s post-Orange Revolution that would otherwise be met with and how painful democratic progress continues to plummet resistence by the voters 4 transformations may be 6 8 POLITICS The Father of His Country? What are they thinking? By presenting Ukraine’s top officials as Ukrainian leaders ignore the requests patriots and statesmen, the flattering media and demands of Western officials despite are doing society a disservice growing tension 12 15 NEIGHBOURS ECONOMICS Cold Peace: How Much is Confidence Worth? CHART 1. Household consumption expenditures Price index in 2007, 100 = Q1’03 Percentage of consumption expenditure 250 Consumption expenditures: household final consumption expenditure 110 index (in conant prices of 2007; 100 equals Q1'03 index) Putin’s pole of power The heavy impact of public left scale challenges Europe distrust for politicians on 200 100 150 90 consumption, the banking 100 Real GDP (in conant prices of 2007; 80 100 equals Q1'03 index) left scale 50 Wage share in GDP 70 system and savings right scale 0 60 I II III IV I II III IV I II III IV I II III IV I II III IV I II III IV I II III IV I II III IV I II III IV 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 16 Source: State Statiics Committee, NBU, own eimates 20 INVESTIGATION SOCIETY yra p m id r u М u Financial Pyramid Reincarnated The Soviet Echo and the Ukrainian r Sergey Mavrodi e М М Many young Ukrainians fell People Temniki for the notorious 1990s Ponzi Barely knowing what to expect from Tysiachniki scheme run by a once-jailed Ukraine, foreigners are surprised by the Sotniki Russian fraudster exotic combination of old architecture, Desiatniki great food, leisure and the soviet 23 imprint they discover 26 Rank-and-file inveors Hope Springs a Trap: Why Don’t Ukrainians Smile? The absence of optimism The Ukrainian Week digs into the nation’s plays a large role in keeping insecurities that stem from too much people trapped in poverty patience, a defensive reaction to what is happening in the country and the inability to 30 find joy in life 32 HISTORY CULTURE & ARTS Symbols of Independence: Going Home to Find Yourself Ukrainian Hercules Ukraine’s flag, emblem and Film director Find Ukraine’s funniest anthem have a long history Taras Khymych talks on folk tales retold in a new and national status, but have documentaries and his series of cartoons yet to become true symbols film about Zakarpattia in The Adventures of of the nation 36 1919-1939 40 Kotyhoroshko and Friends 42 NAVIGATOR Children’s Dream Factory 10 Emails From Rivne Masha Ellsworth, a Ukrainian who is now tell the legends of its name, part of the Pixar team working on the underground rivers and ghosts fishing recently released Brave and upcoming in them, surrealistic pubs, historical feature cartoons, reveals her path to controversies and much more where the magic happens 44 48 international monthly edition The Ukrainian Week № 11 (34) July 2012 Mailing address: PO Box 2, Kyiv, 03067 Founder: ECEM Media Ukraine LLC Publisher: The Ukrainian Week LLC Publisher address: vul. Mashynobudivna 37, Kyiv 03067 Ukraine First published in January 2010 E-mail: [email protected], Tel.: (044) 351-1300 State registration certificate 16412-4884P of March 13, 2010 www.ukrainianweek.com Bohdan Andriytsev, Director, ECEM Media Ukraine LLC Print: ТОV SKIMP, TOV ART STUDIYA DRUKU; vul. Boryspilska 15, Kyiv Serhiy Lytvynenko, Editor-in-Chief, The Ukrainian Week Ordering number: 94-07/12. Print run: 15,000 Natalia Romanec, Shaun Williams, Editors; Sent to print on 5 July 2012 Anna Korbut, Translator Free distribution № 11 (34) JULY 2012|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|3 BRIEFING| 8 June 12 June 14 June The Euro 2012 football The March of Millions The broadcasting championship officially 2 takes place in Russia. of football matches kicks off in Warsaw. Spain Under different estimates, in the Russian lan- and Italy play the final 20,000 to 100,000 guage is banned in match on 1 July in Kyiv people take to the streets Kazakhstan Parliament Gone Wild. Again n 3 July, the majority of MPs ignored more tion allies and filed a letter of resignation. Within than 2,000 recommendations for amend- 24 hours of the passing of the law, a slew of MPs ments to the draft language law and by- whose cards were used to vote in support of the Opassed parliamentary procedures when law, announced that the result was falsified, since passing the law, which significantly limits the most of them were not even present for the voting. spheres where the Ukrainian language is used as Volodymyr Lytvyn, who is still the VR Speaker de an official state language. 248 votes in its support jure, might refuse to sign the bill as a result of the came from all but one MP from Volodymyr violations that occurred during the voting. To Lytvyn’s People’s Party and the Party of Regions’ make this easier for him, the opposition has al- (PR) MPs from Western Ukraine, who had refused ready drafted a resolution that can serve as a basis to support it in the first reading. On the following for conducting a second ballot on the language law. day, Speaker Lytvyn who had previously insisted However, it appears that the government has some that parliament would only consider the draft law compromising information concerning his involve- in autumn due to the huge amount of amendments ment in the murder of reporter Georgiy Gongadze, to it, said that he had been betrayed by his coali- therefore it remains to be seen whether he will dare to make this bold move. The passing of the law has triggered a parliamentary crisis that could explode into a political one. Ukraine has already seen a wave of protests and clashes be- tween protesters and police using tear gas. More and more local authorities strongly condemn the move. Even Viktor Yanukovych mentioned the possibility of early parliamentary elections, while the opposition insists on a complete reboot of the government, pro- posing a combined parliamentary and presidential election. Moreover, the effect of the passing of such an extreme law on the electorate is questionable, as it pushed the voters who view it as a threat to Ukraine’s statehood and identity to rise in protest; the PR elec- torate includes quite a few opponents of any special status for the Russian language, and the share of the Russian-speaking electorate that is skeptical about the law is becoming more irritated as they have abso- lutely no problem speaking Russian in everyday life, yet foresee more difficulties as a result of the govern- ment’s policy. A survey held by the Razumkov Center in the second half of June shows that 65.1% of voters view the passing of the law as the PR’s pre-election move, while only 25% support the idea of making Russian the second official state language in some re- gions. There are several scenarios to explain why parlia- ment took this bold move, blatantly bypassing the The month 21 June 1897 23 June 1917 28 June 1996 in history Yuri Kondratyuk (Oleksandr The Tsentralna Rada The Verkhovna Rada Shargei), pioneer of astronautics (Central Council) passes passes the Constitution and spaceflight who, in the early the 1st Universal in of Ukraine 20th century, foresaw ways of Kyiv thereby declaring reaching the moon, is born Ukraine’s autonomy 4|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|№ 11 (34) JULY 2012 |BRIEFING 26 June 3 July 4 July Higher Court of Limited Jurisdiction confirms the The European Court of Volodymyr Lytvyn and Mykola illegality of the criminal case initiation against Human Rights deems Tomenko, the VR Speaker and Leonid Kuchma concerning the murder of Geor- the arrest of ex-Interior Vice-Speaker, file letters of giy Gongadze. Gongadze’s widow will appeal MinisterY uriy Lutsenko resignation after the infamous against the ruling in the European Court to be illegal law on languages is passed Euro 2012 is No Cure for Isolation Parliament Gone Wild. Again As planned, the government is trying to convert the positive impressions of the voting procedure. Mr. Yanukovych could be inter- “great football celebration” into politi- ested in a short campaign period. This will give the cal dividends before the election. Viktor candidates in first-past-the-post constituencies Yanukovych wants to convince people “processed” by the party in power a competitive that fans have seen Ukraine as a “modern advantage, unlike candidates from the united op- European state” while First Vice Premier position who are not even determined yet. Using Valeriy Khoroshkovsky insists that offi- the language bill as a cover, the party in power is cial Kyiv is now one step closer to Europe. pushing through other initiatives, which would In fact, though, Mr.
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