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For Free Distribution WHY CANDIDATES WITH NO CHANCE THE THREATS RELIGIONS OF WINNING RUN IN THE ELECTION OF LANGUAGE SEPARATISM AND PIETY IN UKRAINE № 8 (74) MAY 2014 WWW.UKRAINIANWEEK.COM Featuring selected content from The Economist FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION |CONTENTS BRIEFING POLITICS Unruly Luhansk: The past month has The Myth of Russian-Speaking Regions and how Russian as the turned the oblast into a territory beyond second state language nationwide or in part of Ukraine’s territory control of the official government will aggravate the discrimination of Ukrainian-speakers and ease the Kremlin’s expansion 4 Errki Bahovski on the 1993 referendum 24 and why the Abkhazia and Transnistria A Dangerous Compromise: International lawyer Volodymyr Scenarios did not come true in Estonia Vasylenko on the constitutional status of the Ukrainian language 6 and its role in state-building FOCUS 28 Déjà vu? What the most popular Ukrainianization: a bogeyman candidates for presidency or a must? promise this time and why candidates who have zero 32 chances of winning the election still run SOCIETY Pro-Ukrainian Donbas: Intelligent, Creative, Chaotic. And they 7 need organization and government support Right, Left or Centre? Why Ukrainian parties alternate between being radical, conservative and liberal, depending on the 35 circumstances and the electioneering situation Ukraine’s Religious Diversity: The split in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is ruining the authority of its official institutions and 12 facilitates alternative trends SECURITY 38 Arming the Enemy: Despite loud statements about ceasing Social psychologistO leh Pokalchuk on the piety of today's rich as military cooperation, Ukrainian plants continue to supply the an old criminal tradition Russian aggressor 40 14 Heresies and Sects inR ussia: ECONOMICS Was the West really the source of Resuscitating Ukraine’s Moribund Economy: Ukraine is currently deviance for Russian orthodoxy? at the bottom of an economic cycle, but some indicators suggest the first signs of growth. The government’s ambitious reform plan 42 gives hope that the country will bounce back HISTORY 16 Modern Ukrainian Conservatism: In 1918, Ukrainian conservatives tried to implement a reform agenda that was free NEIGHBOURS of populism and relied on private property as the foundation of The World According to Putin: Why should the Russian culture and civilization president’s innovative attitude towards borders be restricted to Eastern Europe? 44 CULTURE & ARTS 19 Museums Under Occupation: Museums holding over 917,000 RestrainingP utin, not Russians: Western strategy is to try to exhibits are the price of Ukraine’s cultural loss in Crimea. While focus especially on Putin himself and his entourage without museum workers there try to adapt to the new reality, Ukraine is arousing the blanket hostility and fear of ordinary Russians looking for ways to keep valuable objects 20 48 Finnish journalist and writer Revolution in photos, the voice Jukka Rislakki on the image of the Earth and children’s film of the Baltic States in Russian festival: The Ukrainian Week’s propaganda, the internal divide selection of things to enjoy, see it fuels in Latvia, and ways for a and hear in May small nation to resist it 50 22 E-mail [email protected] www.ukrainianweek.com Tel. (044) 351-13-87 The Ukrainian Week № 8 (74) May 2013 Editors address 37 Mashynobudivna str., Kyiv, 03067, Ukraine Founder ECEM Media GmbH. Publisher ECEM Media GmbH Print run 15 000. Free distribution Address Austria, Am Gestade,1, 1010 Vienna Our partner State registration certificate КВ № 19823-9623ПР 19.03.2013 Chief Editor Alla Lazareva Editors Anna Korbut, Natalia Romaneс, Shaun Williams № 8 (74) APRIL 2014|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|3 BRIEFING| TRENDS &TALK Assassination attempt on Clashes in Odesa IMF decides to Separatists releaseOSCE Kahrkiv Mayor Hennadiy leave 46 dead, grant the USD inspectors kidnapped Kernes. He was severely nearly 200 17bn loan to earlier. The Kremlin’s wounded and sent to Israel people injured Ukraine propaganda presents for treatment this as its own successful diplomacy Unruly Luhansk During the course of a month, Luhansk Oblast has transformed into a criminal enclave, in which the official authorities do not act n April 29, the separatists Author: who had seized the Lu- Kostiantyn hansk office of the Security Skorkin OService of Ukraine (SBU), went on a new attack, taking admin- istrative buildings in the city centre under their control. Only the Lu- hansk Oblast Police Department withstood the attack. Luhansk city centre transformed into something like Grozny in the 1990s – armed gunmen in camouflage with subma- chine guns have become part of the city’s landscape. Separatists’ check posts were established around the city, search- ing cars and even intercity passen- ger minibuses. A friend says that at one post, his car was almost shot to Kyiv’s authority does not yet cover Luhansk law enforcers have pieces by the gunmen, when he Luhansk. Local government in Lu- been demoralised and are prone to failed to stop on their command. hansk, comprised of the Oblast betrayal – the new Head of the “They themselves were frightened Council and the Mayor’s Office, has Oblast Department of Internal Af- by this situation. They said “don’t already followed the separatist fairs, Anatoliy Naumenko, having you understand that we are armed?” trend. While many local deputies obtained reinforcements from other I replied that “if I had a gun, would I actually take part in separatist ac- oblasts, has not yet given in to sepa- also be able to stop anyone?””. tions, particularly active Commu- ratists, but no one knows how long There is currently no valid au- nists, they hardly play a decisive can he can hold out. Detachments thority in Luhansk. Acting Presi- role in them. It is more than likely of the Ukrainian Army and National dent Oleksandr Turchynov has ap- that this is an attempt to straddle Guard are constantly blocked by pointed Iryna Veryhyna, Head of the wave, which is already breaking bands of separatists, who actively the local branch of Batkivshchyna, independently. (There was a funny apply the “human shield” of civil- to temporarily fulfil the responsibil- incident with a highly-placed offi- ians. ities of governor, replacing former cial, who is a representative of the The power vacuum that has Governor Mykhailo Bolotskykh. But Party of Regions, when his car was emerged is being filled with self- this position in Luhansk is nominal almost confiscated by separatists at proclaimed “otamans” – the posi- – the building of the Oblast State one of their check posts and it was tion of People’s Governor and Com- Administration has been seized by only with great difficulty that he was mander of the South-Eastern Army separatists and officials cannot per- able to convince them that he was is held by Valeriy Bolotov, a former form their responsibilities. In fact, one of them). soldier, born in Stackhanov. In the 4|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|№ 8 (74) MAY 2014 Draft law on the nationwide Ukrai- Verkhovna Rada adopts the Donetsk and Lunansk Oblasts nian “consultative poll” about feder- law to resume annual con- hold an illegal referendum to alization and minority languages fails scription to the army abol- separate from Ukraine. Most to get enough votes in the parliament ished by Viktor Yanukovych citizens seem to ignore it in October 2013.Acting President signs the law south of Luhansk Oblast – in the safety. The murder of a married mended that he leave the city while mining-industrial zone where couple – business owners in the he still could. Most journalists of the Ukraine’s richest oligarch Rinat Sverdlovsk County has gained central mass media don’t risk ap- Akhmetov has his enterprises, are quite a resonance (On May 9, sepa- pearing in places where there is a the people of another separatist ratists shot dead a married couple large group of people wearing “Col- chieftain, Oleksiy Mozhoviy, a for- driving in two separate cars to- orado ribbons” (the name for St. mer Gastarbeiter from Russia. He wards the Russian border. Their George’s ribbons that are the Rus- does not recognise Bolotov’s au- 10-year old daughter was severely sian symbol of victory in WWII and thority and is operating indepen- wounded but is alive – Ed.). A true now worn by separatists and pro- dently (he even said that Bolotov criminal revolution has begun in Russian citizens). had given orders to have him the city and the region – gunmen The triumph of this unruly killed). In Antratsyt County, the lo- requisition cars “in the name of the oblast was the illegal referendum, cal head of the regional administra- revolution”, shooting and burglary held on May 11, on the declaration tion has decided to establish his have increased. By the way, sepa- of the Luhansk People’s Republic. own republic, having turned to Rus- ratists have also requisitioned cars At 12 p.m., separatists were already sian Don Cossacks for aid, who en- from the garage of the Oblast cheerfully reporting a 65% voter tered Ukrainian territory quite con- Council, including the car of its turnout. The final turnout was fidently through gaps in the border Head, Valeriy Holenko, a dedicated about 75%, of which 96% voted for and brought a goodly amount of Russophile. In the Stanychno-Lu- the LPR. Most of the eyewitnesses arms into the city. Another struc- hansk County, unknown persons who participated in this so-called ture, operating in the Oblast Centre, “expropriated” an armoured bank referendum said that there were all is the Luhansk People’s Council, vehicle carrying UAH 1mn. Gun- kinds of violations of democratic headed by Andriy Andreyev, who men enter any shop and simply principles. You could vote on behalf was formerly in charge of the city take goods without paying for The triumph of this of family members or neighbours.
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