HURI Roundtable Analyzes Impact of President Yanukovych's First Year

INSIDE: • Statements by Clinton and Gryshchenko – page 4. • Experts comment on Husar’s leadership of UGCC – page 8. • UAYA of Yonkers, N.Y., celebrates 60th anniversary – page 13. THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal Wnon-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXIX No. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2011 $1/$2 in Ukraine HURI roundtable analyzes impact U.S. and Ukraine convene meeting of President Yanukovych’s first year of Strategic Partnership Commission by Peter T. Woloschuk Mr. Yanukovych was sworn in as Ukraine’s fourth president as the standard CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A panel of bearer for the Party of the Regions, the experts analyzed the impact of Ukrainian introduction of Russian as a second offi- President Viktor Yanukovych’s first year cial language, and the introduction of sta- in office and looked at the implications of bility and a managed democracy,” Dr. what has occurred for future develop- Hajda said. “Since taking office, he and ments at a two-day event (February 7 and his team have moved with incredible 8) which included a roundtable seminar, swiftness to implement changes and have “Undoing Ukraine’s Orange Revolution? had a major impact not only on the gov- The First Presidential Year of Viktor ernment but on the country as a whole. It Yanukovych,” and a session of the is appropriate, then, to take some time to Ukraine Study Group, “Yanukovych’s analyze what has happened, where the Ukraine: What Next?” president and the country are now, and The analysis and overview was spon- where they seem to be heading.” sored by Harvard University’s Ukrainian Speaking first, Prof. Colton spoke first Research Institute (HURI) and drew spe- and said that policy change is normal after cialists and other interested participants any election but emphasized that in from as far away as Washington. Ukraine “the changes are as much about Panelists included Timothy Colton, the the political framework or regime as they Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of are about mere changes in policy.” Government and Russian Studies and He listed some of the biggest changes Chair of the Department of Government that occurred as a result of direct initia- at Harvard; Tammy Lynch, a former tives by the president, including the for- Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for mation of a new majority coalition in the Yaro Bihun the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy Rada; the Kharkiv accords with Russia, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton highlights the accomplishments at Boston University; and Oxana Shevel, which allows the Black Sea Fleet to stay of the third meeting of the U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Partnership Commission in assistant professor of political science at in Crimea until at least 2042, if not lon- Washington. She and Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister Kostyantyn Tufts University, associate of HURI and ger; and the change in the country’s for- Gryshchenko spoke in the State Department’s Thomas Jefferson Room. center associate of Harvard’s Davis eign policy doctrine with the de facto Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. abandoning of the quest for NATO mem- by Yaro Bihun At a special ceremony that morning, Among the topics discussed were the bership. changes in Verkhovna Rada, the courts Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Secretary of State Hillary Rodham He also pointed out that other changes Clinton and Ukrainian Foreign Affairs and other government institutions, the rule came about indirectly, most importantly, WASHINGTON – Ukraine and the of law, nation-building, attitudes toward Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, who those instituted by the various Ukrainian United States agreed to increase their headed their country’s delegations in the opposition and the media, foreign pol- courts including the March 11 decision of cooperation in combatting human traf- icy, a political plan, Western and Russian these talks, signed the Cooperation Plan the Constitutional Court approving the ficking from Ukraine, countering HIV/ on combatting trafficking and HIV/AIDS. attitudes toward President Yanukovych formation of a Rada coalition composed AIDS and in developing Ukraine’s ener- and his government, the economy, the Ukraine’s Minister for Energy and of individual deputies as well as political gy resources, especially in the area of Coal Industry Yuriy Boyko and U.S. aims of the current power elite and the oli- parties and factions; the Donetsk adminis- unconventional (shale) gas. garchs, and, finally, what’s next? Special Envoy for Energy Issues in trative court’s June decision that the Two bilateral agreements in these Eurasia Ambassador Richard Morningstar The sessions were opened by Dr. awarding of the Hero of Ukraine title areas were signed on February 15 at the Lubomyr Hajda, HURI’s associate direc- then signed the gas agreement. posthumously to Stepan Bandera was ille- State Department during the third session In her introductory remarks, Secretary tor, who also served as moderator of both of the U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Partnership events. “It is almost exactly one year since (Continued on page 21) of State Clinton cited as an example of Commission. the progress made in combatting human trafficking the recent repatriation from Ukraine to the United States of a man Encyclopedia focuses on Ukraine’s dissident movement accused of making more than $1 million in trafficking women from Ukraine. by Zenon Zawada “I wanted for this publication to She said that during the three sessions Kyiv Press Bureau emerge in my lifetime,” Mr. Zinkewych, thus far of the bilateral strategic partner- 86, told the audience at the October 2, ship talks, which began in 2009, the two KYIV – The first encyclopedia on 2010, presentation of the encyclopedia at sides “have rolled up our sleeves... to Ukraine’s Soviet era dissident movement the Teacher’s Building in central Kyiv. pursue our common goal of a Ukraine was published late last year by Kyiv- “We are people of an elderly age and that is more secure, prosperous and dem- based Smoloskyp, offering a collection we don’t know what awaits us tomorrow. ocratic.” And Ukraine is well positioned, of extensive biographies of the most We recruited a group of young people, she added, “to realize its own citizens’ influential enemies of the Soviet Union seated here. If we began this work in hope for a genuine democracy and a pros- in a single book. another way, I doubt we would have pub- perous economy.” “Resistance Movement in Ukraine lished it so quickly,” he noted. They have also tackled the problems of 1960 to 1990: An Encyclopedia” was The encyclopedia’s presentation was a stopping nuclear proliferation, achieving composed by an editing team headed by raucous event, at which the hundreds of food security, improving health care, Osyp Zinkewych, the legendary publish- dissidents gathered celebrated the book’s developing Ukraine’s domestic energy er who founded the Smoloskyp informa- publishing, offering much praise for the resources and attracting more foreign pri- tion service in the U.S. in 1968. It monumental work, but also venting vate investment, especially from the became a key channel for Ukrainian dis- United States, she said. sidents to communicate with the West. (Continued on page 10) (Continued on page 4) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2011 No. 8 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Ukraine fails to deliver aircraft, U.S. to Ukraine: strengthen rule of law House of Representatives Marcy Kaptur, Alcee Hastings, Mike Quigley and Sander personnel carriers to Iraq on time WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Levin, the Foreign Affairs Ministry’s State Hillary Rodham Clinton on February Department of Information Policy reported by Pavel Korduban Ukrspetsexport and that it had failed to 15 called on Ukraine to step up efforts to on February 16. The topics of discussion improve the rule of law and protect the free- Eurasia Daily Monitor deliver on several old contracts. However, included the prospects of the Ukrainian- Ukrayinska Pravda in the same article dom of speech. Secretary Clinton spoke American strategic partnership, in particu- A $550 million contract for Kyiv to depicted several current senior managers of after a meeting in Washington with lar, energy cooperation and trade and eco- deliver 420 BTR-4 armored personnel car- Progress as being unprofessional. Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister nomic cooperation, as well as the domes- riers and six AN-32 light military transport Ukrayinska Pravda also cited sources Kostyantyn Gryshchenko. She said the U.S. tic, political and economic situation in planes to Iraq, which was concluded in claiming that Ukrspetsexport, under Mr. is looking to Ukraine to continue the com- Ukraine, and interparliamentary coopera- 2009, faces a crisis. Ukrspetsexport, the Salamatin, refused to pay fees to an mitments it has made for transparent gov- tion between the Verkhovna Rada of ernment, the rule of law, protection of free- Ukrainian state-controlled arms exporter, unnamed U.S.-based intermediary whose Ukraine and the U.S. Congress. Rep. dom of speech and media, [and] compre- hoped that the first BTR-4s shipped under interests in Ukraine are represented by a Hastings, a member of the U.S. hensive judicial reform. Secretary Clinton the contract would participate in the Iraqi Ukrainian citizen. The intermediary Commission on Security and Cooperation and Minister Gryshchenko signed an agree- Army Day parade on January 5. However, expected to be paid 13 percent of the con- in Europe (Helsinki Commission), this did not occur. ment that day to fight human trafficking. tract value. The website cited Mr. expressed hope for fruitful cooperation In December 2010, the Iraqi Defense Experts say more than 100,000 Ukrainians Salamatin as saying that such intermediar- with the Ukrainian side in 2013, when Ministry had refused to accept both the have been trafficked abroad and forced into ies were “experienced but selfish” (www.

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