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The Ukrainian Weekly 2009, No.51 www.ukrweekly.com ïêàëíéë êéÑàÇëü! CHRIST IS BORN! HEPublished by theKRA Ukrainian NationalIN AssociationIAN Inc., a fraternal non-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXVIIT UNo.51 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER W 20, 2009 $1/$2 in Ukraine Poroshenko satisfied with results VOA’s Ukrainian Service of four-day visit to Washington marks 60th anniversary by Yaro Bihun December 12, following a full range of high- Special to The Ukrainian Weekly level meetings in Washington – with senior U.S. government officials, congressional WASHINGTON – Ukrainian Foreign and business leaders, representatives of the Affairs Minister Petro Poroshenko conclud- International Monetary Fund (IMF) – and, ed his four-day visit to the United States on while in New York, with the United Nations leadership. The focal point of the visit was his meet- ing with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, held in conjunction with the inaugural ses- sion of the U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Partnership Commission, established last summer to assist Ukraine in the various aspects of its development and to strengthen the U.S.-Ukraine bilateral relationship. Both officials expressed satisfaction fol- lowing their meeting. Secretary Clinton expressed the Obama administration’s com- mitment to assisting Ukraine “on the path to democracy and prosperity” and supporting its independence and “further integration” with NATO and the European Union. Yaro Bihun Minister Poroshenko was equally posi- Among those attending the VOA Ukrainian Service’s 60th anniversary celebra- tive in his remarks about U.S. assurances tion in Washington was its oldest living former staff member, Stefan Maksymjuk, about security, economic and other impor- who joined the staff in 1954. Standing next to him are the two newest members of tant issues for Ukraine. As he listed some of Yaro Bihun the staff – who came on board more than a half-century later – Mariya Yunko the problems the two countries “should deal and Tetyana Vorozhko. Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister Petro with together,” he underscored – as he did in Poroshenko responds to reporters’ ques- subsequent remarks during the visit – the by Yaro Bihun from President Viktor Yushchenko con- tions outside the U.S. State Department urgent need for the renewal of the “crucially Special to The Ukrainian Weekly gratulating and thanking the Ukrainian following his meeting with Secretary of Service for its “long-standing support of State Hillary Clinton. (Continued on page 26) WASHINGTON — The Ukrainian the democratic movement in Ukraine, for Service of the Voice of America (VOA) the contribution to the victory over the marked its 60th anniversary on December totalitarian Soviet regime and to the 11 at VOA headquarters here with a half- revival of Ukrainian nationhood.” Canadian businessman is latest victim day celebration that included greetings On a personal level, the ambassador from the president of Ukraine, members added that having grown up and having of unscrupulous partners in Ukraine of the U.S. Congress and diplomats, as spent a good part of his early life in the well as two panels of experts discussing Soviet Union, he should understand better by Zenon Zawada his Ukraine venture. some of the important issues facing than most the important role played by Kyiv Press Bureau “I had no idea of the level of corrup- Ukraine today. VOA in bringing down, as he described tion. I knew it was greater in Ukraine The first Ukrainian-language program it, the “Berlin Wall in the minds of the KYIV – Canadian entrepreneur than America, but you can’t compare was transmitted via short-wave radio millions of people who were born, raised Steven Chepa is among the world’s the countries at all. My experience in from VOA’s New York studios on and educated and were living under a biggest supporters of the Rusyn people life doesn’t fit here at all – I’m just a December 12, 1949. Five years later the of the Carpathian Mountains, the home- totalitarian regime.” fish out of water. I knew there were Ukrainian Service was moved to VOA’s His American counterpart in Kyiv dur- land of his parents. risks, but I didn’t realize how big the present headquarters in Washington, He was inspired, and his emotions ing the latter part of the 1990s, risks were.” where it continued and expanded its Ambassador William Green Miller, also stirred, when two native Ukrainians Mr. Chepa is the latest diaspora broadcasting to a peak of five hours a day shared his experiences and views about presented a plan to renovate a sawmill investor brave enough to put his money at the height of the Cold War. the role of the Voice of America. It was, in the Zakarpattia town of Vylok on the where his mouth is and try to boost the After Ukraine gained its independence, he said, “a great endeavor” that should be Hungarian border, potentially creating Ukrainian economy, only to have been radio programs were scaled back and celebrated and continued. 100 stable jobs in the depressed region. burned by the government’s failure to were transmitted over local Ukrainian U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), Little did Mr. Chepa know that it deal with corruption. stations as was the new weekly half-hour was a blueprint for a multi-million- Ukraine ranked 146th in the 2009 who co-chairs the Congressional TV magazine program “Window on Ukrainian Caucus, also spoke from per- dollar heist. Corruption Perception Index prepared America.” sonal experience about how difficult it On November 6 a working group by Transparency International and A local correspondents network was was to travel to the Soviet Union and pass commissioned by First Vice Prime released in October. It is on the same established, and, more recently, a week- information to those living there during Minister Oleksander Turchynov con- level as war-devastated Sierra Leone and day 15-minute TV news show “Chas- the Cold War. She recalled how a friend firmed that Mr. Chepa was the victim of Zimbabwe, a country ruled by a dictator Time” was added, as well as an Internet described to her how they listened to a corporate raid by his Ukrainian-born and without a functioning economy. news website (http://www.voanews.com/ VOA – after first closing all of the cur- business partners and recommended that Mr. Chepa visited his father’s village ukrainian/). tains and huddling on the floor by their law enforcement authorities investigate. for the first time in 2001, returning to Radio broadcasts in Ukrainian were short-wave radio. “I thought these people were from Ukraine several times to support to sup- taken off the air on December 31, 2008. “For six decades, the Voice of America Ukraine and knew how to handle port the cultural activity of Ukraine’s Among those expressing their greet- has provided an unfiltered flow of infor- things,” said Mr. Chepa, an otherwise ings at this anniversary was Ukraine’s successful entrepreneur, humbled by mation to the people of Ukraine, a people (Continued on page 3) Ambassador to the U.S. Dr. Oleh Shamshur, who also read a statement (Continued on page 6) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2009 No. 51 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Russia’s Gazprom agrees Poroshenko on dialogue with Russia December 15 amended the state budget law for 2009 to allocate 608 million hrv not to penalize Naftohaz KYIV – Ukrainian Foreign Affairs for combating the influenza epidemic in Minister Petro Poroshenko pointed to a Ukraine. The Health Ministry of Ukraine by Pavel Korduban eries early in 2009 with funds borrowed renewal of dialogue between the foreign has already confirmed 501 deaths due to Eurasia Daily Monitor from Ukrainian state-controlled banks, and affairs ministries of Ukraine and Russia, flu and acute respiratory virus infections is going to pay in December with money speaking at a meeting of his ministry’s pub- (ARVI) between October 29 and Gazprom and Naftohaz Ukrainy on borrowed by Ukraine from the International lic council on December 15. “It’s very good December 14 in all 24 regions of Ukraine, November 24 signed addenda to their earlier Monetary Fund (IMF), just like it did in that the dialogue has resumed, that this dia- the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and contracts according to which Naftohaz will November. logue has become less emotional,” Mr. the cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol. A total not pay fines for buying less gas in 2009 However, Mr. Yushchenko believes that Poroshenko emphasized. He said the effi- of 2,546,622 flu and ARVI patients have than stipulated by the contracts. Gazprom Naftohaz did not go far enough in the talks ciency of contacts “is on a satisfactory been registered since October 29, includ- also allowed Naftohaz to buy less gas in with Gazprom, and he suspects that Moscow level.” At the same time, he cited an “alarm- ing 83,137 over the past 24 hours. Since 2010 – 33.75 billion cubic meters (bcm) received some promises of both a political ing” trend of a negative perception of the beginning of the epidemic 151,660 rather than 52 bcm. and economic nature from his arch-rival Ukraine by Russian residents. According to patients have been rushed to hospital, and Naftohaz in 2009 will import far less than Tymoshenko in exchange for concessions. the latest Russian opinion polls, “we could 119,740 of them have been released. the 33 bcm of gas stipulated by the January The president’s energy aide Bohdan see an absolutely disturbing, to my mind, (Ukrinform) 2009 contracts, and consequently fines could Sokolovsky warned that the main risks for trend when the state of the negative percep- amount to as much as $8 billion if the “take- Naftohaz had not been removed by the tion of Ukraine and Ukrainians has been Ukraine elected to UNIDO or-pay” clause in the contracts had been November 24 accords.
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