www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE: • Ukraine four years after the Orange Revolution – page 3. • Digital archives of Security Service of Ukraine – page 9. • New Bond girl Olga Kurylenko – page 11. THEPublished U byKRAINIAN the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW associationEEKLY Vol. LXXVI No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2008 $1/$2 in Ukraine Four candidates in the running Yushchenko addresses the world for post of Verkhovna Rada chair about the Holodomor of 1932-1933 by Zenon Zawada wanted to return ever since his epony- Following is the text of Kyiv Press Bureau mous bloc failed to qualify for Parliament the appeal of the President in the 2006 election that produced the Viktor Yushchenko of NEW YORK – Parliamentary depu- Anti-Crisis Coalition. Ukraine to the Ukrainians ties, not the coalition government, will The Lytvyn Bloc returned to of the world and the inter- select the Verkhovna Rada’s new chair, Parliament the next year with 4 percent national community on the drawing interest from several potential of the vote in the 2007 election, after occasion of the 75th anni- candidates. adopting a widely suspected campaign versary of the Holodomor All the potential replacements for oust- strategy of buying votes, particularly in of 1932-1933. The ed Rada Chair Arseniy Yatsenyuk served central Ukraine’s rural communities. English-language text was in key posts in the government of former After his close ties to Mr. Kuchma released on November 21. President Leonid Kuchma and are well- caused much controversy, particularly his (It has been edited for entrenched among Ukraine’s establish- alleged role in the murder of journalist clarity by The Ukrainian ment. Heorhii Gongadze, Mr. Lytvyn has tried Weekly.) Yet, given Ukraine’s rancorous to adopt the post-Orange Revolution Parliament, which failed to produce a image of a neutral mediator between I address you with coalition government, a new Rada chair Ukraine’s pro-Western and pro-Russian regard to the 75th anniver- might not emerge anytime soon, said Dr. forces. sary of the most tragic Taras Kuzio, president of Kuzio In order to become elected, he would incident in Ukrainian his- Associates, a government communica- need to align himself with either the Party tory – the Holodomor of tions and consulting firm. of Regions of Ukraine or the Yulia 1932-33. “I have a strong suspicion that nothing Tymoshenko Bloc, both options open to It took decades for the will happen, and no candidate will get him. truth about this genocide enough votes,” he said. “Lytvyn can swing between a larger deliberately perpetrated by Stalin’s regime on the However, at this point in the process, Orange coalition or the Regions,” Dr. Ukrainian land of plenty the names of four candidates for the posi- Kuzio said. “But he must be thinking, ‘Is to make its way to the tion have emerged. this worth the effort?” public. Ivan Pliusch Volodymyr Lytvyn I want to express my The first chair of the Verkhovna Rada deepest appreciation to all The front-runner for the parliamentary has remained a tactful player in Ukrainian who refused to be silent chairmanship is Volodymyr Lytvyn, politics, enjoying close ties with politi- during these years when because he is among the few candidates cians across a broad spectrum. fear bound Ukraine under who can draw support from either side of Mr. Pliusch is particularly friendly the Soviet regime, when the aisle in Ukraine’s fiercely divided with President Viktor Yushchenko, all the rest of the world Parliament. Secretariat Chair Viktor Baloha and preferred to remain com- Having served as the Rada chair industrial kingpin Rinat Akhmetov, the placently ignorant about between 2002 and 2006, Mr. Lytvyn has top financer of the Party of Regions. one of the gravest crimes In Parliament Mr. Pliusch draws the against humanity. Zenon Zawada, our Kyiv Press Bureau most support from the Single Center Only after cutting the correspondent, is currently in the United strings of communist States. (Continued on page 21) Markian Hadzewycz totalitarianism did inde- Display at the entrance to an exhibit about the pendent Ukraine manage Holodomor at the Ukrainian American Cultural to testify aloud about this Center of New Jersey. attempt on the life of the entire nation conducted in distant 1930s of We do not speak about what could have the last century. been done 75 years ago if the world had Today the truth about the Holodomor known the full truth. We raise our voices has been made public. It became impossi- to talk about what can be done today in ble to keep it secret any longer. The order to honor those who perished and gloom of Stalin’s night of 1932-1933 is those who managed to survive in the hell fading away. of the Holodomor. The Holodomor has been already rec- Millions of candles lit by Ukrainians on ognized and condemned by many coun- November 22 in honor of fellow country- tries and international organizations, men tortured with hunger will merge with regional governments and parliaments, and the flame of the International Holodomor municipal councils all over the world. Remembrance Torch that passed through Let me extend my deep respect and 33 countries and all Ukrainian regions, gratitude for this humanism and solidarity becoming filled with the spirit of many with millions of innocent victims of geno- sincere people from different countries and cide. nations. International support sustains our belief I call upon everyone who cannot be that historical justice will be restored. This indifferent to the feelings of mercy, sym- consolidates our common will to strive for pathy and justice, who supports the victory its establishment in full measure. of good over evil to light their own candles The global community must realize that of remembrance and join us in honoring it will be impossible to prevent future the victims of the Holodomor. Zenon Zawada Zenon Zawada crimes against humanity unless past crimes Ukraine remembers! The world Volodymyr Lytvyn Ivan Pliusch are condemned. acknowledges! 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2008 No. 48 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Verkhovna Rada investigates Yanukovych meets with Putin possible assistance from Russia,” Mr. Yanukovych said. He also called for a return KYIV – The leader of the opposition to the idea of a common economic space. arms supplies to Georgia Party of Regions, Viktor Yanukovych, and Speaking about the worsening of Ukrainian- the chairman of United Russia, Vladimir by Pavel Korduban depot near Lozova at the end of August Russian relations, the PRU leader said that Putin, met on November 21 in Moscow, “Ukrainian-Russian relations have been sig- Eurasia Daily Monitor was arson masterminded in order to cover where they discussed prospects for the nificantly spoiled” because of the position up the smuggling of arms to Georgia future development of cooperation between November 19 adopted by the Ukrainian leadership during (www.liga.net, www.regnum.ru, the two parties. In particular, they discussed the Russian-Georgian military conflict. He A Ukrainian parliamentary commis- September 26). “filling an agreement between the Party of described the position of Ukrainian President sion investigating arms supplies to Mr. Konovaliuk said that most of the Regions and the all-Russian Party United Viktor Yushchenko as “unacceptable,” and Georgia has claimed that they were ille- funds raised from the arms trade during Russia with qualitatively new contents,” the accused him of supporting one of the sides gal. The commission chairman, Valerii the past few years, not only with Georgia, PRU press service reported. The two party in the conflict – Georgia. “As soon as politi- Konovaliuk from the pro-Russian Party did not go into the state coffers. leaders touched upon the need to strengthen of Regions (PRU), insists that President According to his calculations, Ukraine’s good-neighbor relations between Ukraine cal changes are made in Ukraine, relations Viktor Yushchenko was aware that losses from arms supplies to Georgia and Russia, as well as cooperation and coor- with Russia will immediately improve,” Mr. Ukraine supplied arms to Georgia illegal- amounted to some $100 million (Interfax- dination of efforts aimed at overcoming the Yanukovych said, adding that these changes ly. The Security Service of Ukraine Ukraine, October 8). The Ukrainian consequences of the economic crisis conse- will definitely occur. (Ukrinform) (SBU) denied this and prevented the pre- Defense Ministry and the state arms trade quences. Mr. Yanukovych participated in Intelligentsia appeals to Russians sentation in Kyiv of a Russian documen- company, Ukrspetsexport, flatly denied work of the 10th congress of the United tary that reflects Moscow’s interpretation Mr. Konovaliuk’s conclusions. Russia Party. (Ukrinform) KYIV – The Ukrainian intelligentsia of Ukraine’s role in the August Russian- The National Security and Defense addressed the president of Russia and its cit- Georgian conflict over South Ossetia, a Council, a body chaired by President PRU chief promises improved relations izens with an appeal to honor the memory of point of view shared by the commission. Yushchenko, said that Mr. Konovaliuk’s KYIV – Viktor Yanukovych, leader of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 According to Moscow, Kyiv supplied commission had been set up “in order to in Ukraine. The appeal was read by the arms to Georgia ahead of and during the the Party of Regions of Ukraine (PRU), who use in domestic political fights the dan- attended the 10th congress of the United chairman of the Congress of the Ukrainian conflict in violation of bilateral agree- gerous myth forged by Ukraine’s oppo- Intelligentsia, Ivan Drach, during a press ments and international laws. Kyiv does Russia Party in Moscow on November 20, nents about Ukraine’s involvement in the told journalists that he had participated in conference on November 21.