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POLITICAL DEUCES PLAY INTO PAGE DISPELLING PAGE TOP 12 MUSIC PAGE THE HANDS OF THE GOVERNMENT FOOTBALL FANS' FESTIVALS BEFORE THE ELECTION 6 FEAR OF UKRAINE 36 THIS SUMMER 48 № 9 (32) JUNE 2012 NO LANGUAge – NO UKRAINE WWW.UKRAINIANWEEK.COM FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION Featuring selected content from The Economist Opposition vote |CONTENTS BRIEFING FOCUS ealers 9.8- Russification Redux? Total Political(eimates b yDeuces: A Royal Gift for the Language policy of the TPseudo-oppositionhe Ukrainian Government: A slew of facts party in power puts the projectsWeek) are stealing11.5 signal that the Presidential Ukrainian language the opposition’s Administration is promoting as well as Ukraine’s votes and play Natalia Korolevska’s political sovereignty and European foul in electoral project to help it take control choice at risk 4 commissions 6 of the future parliament 8 POLITICS Why Invest in European Stories: Matej Šurc and Blaž Culture? 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A large the Schengen Area get into The best number of tickets trouble more and more tournament for Euro 2012 often as they break the money can football matches rules for non-EU citizens to buy may go to travel across the territory 30 32 Ukrainian scalpers 34 SOCIETY HISTORY NAVIGATOR Giving ‘em the Runaround: In the Where did “Ukraine” UEFVanityA OFFICIAL TICKET Fair: PRICES An Come From? Tracing Group age (8-19 June) lead-up to Euro 2012, Western media insight Fir category: €120 (UintoAH 1,200) the Second category: €70 (UAH 700) have been competing to paint the the background of mansionsThird category: €30 (UAH 300 of) the scariest possible picture of Ukraine. the country name to nouveauQuarterfinals (21-24 June) riches th Fir category: €150 (UAH 1,500) the 19 century Second category: €80 (UAH 800) The Ukrainian Week looks into what andThird category: what €40 (UAH 400) lies foreigners fear and what challenges beneathSemifinals (27-28 June) 40 Fir category: €270 (UAH 2,700) 46 they will actually face in Ukraine 36 Second category: €150 (UAH 1,500) Third category: €45 (UAH 450) Final (1 July) CULTURE & ARTS Fir category: €600 (UAH 6,000) Second category: €330 (UAH 3,300) 12 Summer Arsenale 2012: Third category: €50 (UAH 500) Music Kyiv hosts the first Events international biennale not to be for contemporary missed art dedicated to the 48 apocalypse and rebirth 51 international monthly edition The Ukrainian Week № 9 (32) June 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: 7505/12. Print run: 15,000 Natalia Romanec, Shaun Williams, Editors; Sent to print on 31 May 2012 Anna Korbut, Translator Free distribution № 9 (32) JUNE 2012|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|3 BRIEFING| 17 May 18 May 21 May Viktor Yanukovych sets up the Con- The Russian Supreme UAH 200mn of state funds stitutional Assembly subordinate Court liquidates the As- allocated for children’s cancer to the President of Ukraine tasked sociation of Ukrainians treatment facility in Kyiv go to with drafting amendments to the in Russia Euro 2012 preparations Constitution of Ukraine QUOTES VIKTOR PSHONKA reveals pressure “Regulators are putting too much pressure on businesses. This is a dangerous trend,” claims the Prosecutor General. VLADIMIR MEDINSKI the propagandist minister The notorious historian known for his anti-Ukrai- nian and anti-Euro- pean statements and support for Stalin's geopolitcs is appointed Russia's Minister of Culture. BRONISLAW KOMOROWSKY spots a threat At a meeting with Viktor Yanukovych, the Polish President says that he views his peer’s policy as a threat to Ukraine’s European integra- tion. HUGH ROBERTSON encourages fans to go to Euro 2012 "My advice to any fan is to go and sup- port their team,… but crucially to behave yourself as well,” UK Sports Minister says on Sky Channel. The month 2 June 1652 3 June 1863 4 June 1775 in history Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Yevhen Petrushevych, Presi- Catherine the Great’s Cossack army defeats the dent of Western Ukrainian army destroys Zapori- 20,000-strong Polish army People’s Republic (ZUNR), zhzhia Sich in the Battle of Batoh is born 4|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|№ 9 (32) JUNE 2012 |BRIEFING 24 May 28 May 1 June The NBU simplifies cur- Arseniy Yatseniuk announc- The Cabinet of Ministers allows travelers to bring rency exchange proce- es that the United Opposi- up to five packages of each item of medication, dure for non-residents for tion will hold its convention and one package of each food item in carry-on Euro 2012, 1 June - and present its campaign and check-in luggage, provided that the total cost 10 July 2012 platform on 30 July of food does not exceed EUR 200 FREE PRESS AWARD Ukrayinsky Tyzhden wins the Russification Redux? Free Press of EasternE urope 2012 Award confrontation over language legislation in the last parliamentary election in 2007, and proposed by the ruling party is unfold- ended up with 202 out of 450 seats, forming a The official ceremony for the Gerd ing in Ukraine. On 24 May, opposition majority only after 20 MPs from Volodymyr Bucerius Award, which are decided Lytvyn’s People’s Party and a few dozen cross- by the Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin Founda- AMPs prevented the parliament from tion and Gerd Bucerius, together considering the Draft Law On the Basics of overs from the opposition joined them. Both with the Fritt Ord Foundation (Free State Language Policy sponsored by Vadym groups publicly claim that they will not vote for Word), took place in Hamburg. Kolesnichenko, a notorious openly anti-Ukrai- the language law sponsored by the Party of Re- Other winners included Olga nian and pro-Russian MP, and Serhiy Kivalov, gions, yet they may eventually fail to resist Romanova, a well-known Russian ex-Chair of the Central Electoral Commission pressure from the Presidential Administration blogger, who covers the situation often blamed for the rigged 2004 presidential and its substantial “powers of persuasion.” in prisons; Khadija Ismayilova, an election that sparked the Orange Revolution. If passed, the bill will put not only the Ukrai- Azerbaijani journalist, who writes The bill’s sponsors insist that their only prior- nian language, but Ukraine’s sovereignty and about corruption in the higher ity is to protect the languages of ethnic minori- European choice, at risk. Unlike the European echelons of power, particularly the presidential family; Valeri Karbal- ties whose rights are allegedly discriminated Charter for Regional and Minority Languages, evitch, an independent Belarusian against. The MPs also claim that they drafted it does not focus on disappearing languages political observer and author of the bill in order to meet the requirements of that need protection. Instead, it prioritizes the the book entitled “Alexander the previously ratified European Charter for Russian language that, supported by Ukraine’s Lukashenko: Political Portrait”. The Regional and Minority Languages. Yet, both post-colonial environment, still dominates in Fritt Ord Foundation’s Free Press in the OSCE and the Venice Commission have some oblasts and spheres of life. Another im- Russia-2012 Award was won by the criticized the Kolesnichenko-Kivalov spon- portant argument is that the expansion of the Chechen magazine “Dosh” which sored language initiative. In a letter to the Russian language and the influence of the highlights human rights and talks Verkhovna Rada, Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn Kremlin play key roles in the concept of the about what is actually happening in and Knut Vollebaek, OSCE High Commis- Russian World currently promoted by the the Caucasus.