INSIDE:• Profile: Oleksii Ivchenko, chair of Naftohaz — page 3. • Donetsk teen among winners of ballet competition — page 9. • A conversation with historian Roman Serbyn — page 13. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIVTHE UKRAINIANNo. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 9,W 2006 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine World Cup soccer action Parliamentary coalition collapses Moroz and Azarov are candidates for Rada chair unites people of Ukraine by Zenon Zawada The Our Ukraine bloc had refused to Kyiv Press Bureau give the Socialists the Parliament chair- manship, which it wanted Mr. KYIV – Just two weeks after signing a Poroshenko to occupy in order to coun- parliamentary coalition pact with the Our terbalance Ms. Tymoshenko’s influence Ukraine and Yulia Tymoshenko blocs, as prime minister. Socialist Party of Ukraine leader Eventually, Mr. Moroz publicly relin- Oleksander Moroz betrayed his Orange quished his claim to the post. Revolution partners and formed a de His July 6 turnaround caused a schism facto union with the Party of the Regions within the ranks of his own party as and the Communist Party. National Deputy Yosyp Vinskyi Recognizing that he lacked enough announced he was resigning as the first votes, Our Ukraine National Deputy secretary of the party’s political council. Petro Poroshenko withdrew his candida- Mr. Moroz’s betrayal ruins the demo- cy for the Verkhovna Rada chair during cratic coalition and reveals his intention the Parliament’s July 6 session. to unite with the Party of the Regions, The Socialists then nominated Mr. Mr. Vinskyi alleged. Moroz and the Party of the Regions nom- “My personal tragedy is that I can’t Zenon Zawada inated Mykola Azarov, a former first trust Mr. Moroz as the Socialist Party Young soccer fans watch Ukraine compete in the World Cup quarter-finals vice-minister who spent most of his life leader, a person I walked alongside for against Italy on Kyiv’s Independence Square on June 30. in the Russian Federation. As of The 15 years, who, I supported in everything, Weekly’s press deadline, the vote for the for whom I took on the dirtiest and most by Zenon Zawada tory taking place above. Rada chair had not yet taken place. thankless work,” Mr. Vinskyi told “I don’t want to lead a Parliament Kyiv Press Bureau “It’s all the same to me,” said Elena reporters. Taran, munching on a salad while chat- where sectors are battling each other,” He accused the Party of the Regions of KYIV – Oblivious tourists sipped ting with a girlfriend. “The whole world Mr. Moroz said. “But I know that, other buying off the Socialists. “Price is a big cocktails in the Khreschatyk’s outdoor may be watching, but we’re here drink- than me, no one will unite it.” issue, and I don’t have the facts or docu- cafés on June 30 as a cacophony of car ing beer.” Ever since the coalition negotiations ments to support my claim,” Mr. Vinskyi and soccer horns proclaimed the humid Our husbands are watching it some- began in April, Mr. Moroz had been told reporters. “But you will soon see night’s national gravity. where, they said laughing.“We’re not vying for the Rada chair, which he held who is riding in which cars and living in On Independence Square, teenage for four years between May 1994 and girls adorned young men’s faces with (Continued on page 5) April 1998. (Continued on page 5) blue and yellow war paint in preparation for the night’s fierce struggle. In a half hour, “nashi” were to face soccer powerhouse and three-time world Nine billionaires among Ukraine’s 30 richest men champions Italy. by Zenon Zawada newfound luster is one of the Orange Ukraine’s Parliament as a national deputy. “It’s too bad our boys aren’t playing Kyiv Press Bureau Revolution’s enemies, Rynat Akhmetov, Known as Ukraine’s steel king, Mr. Spain,” snickered Volodymyr Korbash, 39, whose wealth has multiplied to an 33, referring to the team that beat KYIV – Ukraine now boasts nine bil- Akhmetov also has enormous investments estimated $11.8 billion. in the auto-making, energy, communica- Ukraine 4-0 but didn’t make it to the lionaires, all having prospered from the He remains the biggest financier of the quarter-finals of the World Cup. nation’s vast natural resources and the Party of the Regions, which he represents in (Continued on page 4) By the game’s start, more than a thou- industrial might inherited from the sand youngsters had jammed Soviet Union, according to a newly Independence Square, draped in blue- released survey of Ukraine’s 30 wealthi- yellow flags, clenching Ukrainian beer est men. bottles and stretching their vocal cords to Among them, 17 conduct their busi- their limit. ness in the industrial east, while none are “U-kra-yi-na!” based in western Ukraine, as determined “Pa-bie-da bu-diet na-sha!” (Victory by the financial analysts at Dragon will be ours.) Capital investment bank and editors of KP How loud was it? Media, who published their report in the “I feel it’s more like a revolution than July 1 issue of Korrespondent magazine. a soccer game,” said Elizabeth Clark, an “If more than half of the wealthy in American visiting from Moscow. neighboring Russia scraped together their But all it took was six minutes for the fortune exporting natural resources, mainly patriotic zeal and alacrity invigorating natural gas and oil, then most well-off Independence Square to be abruptly Ukrainians made their millions producing extinguished with a nifty goal by a fel- steel and cast iron,” reported Korrespondent low named Gianluca Zambrotta, a magazine, Ukraine’s leading news weekly, defender no less. which is published by American Jed Subdued tension swept like a wave Sunden in the Russian language. over the soccer fans, who spent half-time The rich have gotten richer in Ukraine tensely pondering and pleading for a thanks to the Orange Revolution – an rejuvenated Ukrainian team, a prayer event that increased the attractiveness of that wouldn’t be answered their properties, assets and stocks among Below the raucous maidan, the food Western investors and capitalists, Zenon Zawada Zenon Zawada court of the Globus shopping mall had a Korrespondent reported. Ukraine’s wealthiest man, Rynat Chocolate king Petro Poroshenko is dozen or so patrons, oblivious to the his- One of the top beneficiaries of this Akhmetov, is worth $11.8 billion. worth $505 million. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 9, 2006 No. 28 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS A Croatian human-trafficking NEWSBRIEFS Coalition ready to talk with opposition the newly created ruling coalition of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, Our Ukraine and victim speaks with RFE/RL KYIV – Leaders of the ruling coalition the Socialist Party to discuss the current – the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, Our parliamentary impasse with the opposition by Ankica Barbir Mladinovic had to be ready by then,” she continued. Ukraine and the Socialist Party – are ready – the Party of the Regions led by former RFE/RL Organized Crime and Terrorism Watch “I told him to get his mother ready to sit at the negotiating table with the Party Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and the instead, and then he hit me on the head of the Regions, Ukrainian media reported Communist Party. A planned round of such Trafficking in women for the purpose of with his fist. Since we were in the kitchen on June 30, quoting Roman Bezsmertnyi talks misfired in Kyiv on July 3 after Mr. sexual exploitation is becoming increasing- I turned around and struck him with a pot. of Our Ukraine. Lawmakers from the Yanukovych failed to show up and the rul- ly widespread in countries undergoing tran- Naturally, I was no match for him physi- Party of the Regions have been blocking ing coalition refused to discuss the parlia- sition. Many young women seeking better cally. He beat and raped me constantly the parliamentary session chamber in mentary crisis without him. Party of the jobs and better lives find themselves for three days, to the point where I was protest against what they see as an unlaw- Regions deputies have been blocking the against their will in secret brothels of lying in blood and urine while tied to a ful scheme to appoint the prime minister parliamentary session hall for the past Western countries. Such is the warning of bed. He then brought two of his friends and Verkhovna Rada chairman and the week. (RFE/RL Newsline) non-governmental women’s unions in who raped me, put out cigarette butts on opposition’s failure to offer the opposition Croatia, where 45 victims of trafficking me, and cut me with razors.” sufficient positions on legislative commit- President meets party leaders have been identified in the last four years. Martina was locked in a Rome apartment tees. Mr. Bezsmertnyi told journalists on Unofficial numbers are many times greater. KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko on for two months. Instead of working in a June 30 that the ruling coalition will not July 4 met with Yulia Tymoshenko (Yulia “It happened abroad,” says Martina, a restaurant, she was beaten and raped daily accept any ultimatums during such negoti- 29-year-old trafficking victim from Tymoshenko Bloc), Roman Bezsmertnyi until she was “broken” and had become a ations. Party of the Regions leader Viktor (Our Ukraine), Oleksander Moroz Zagreb. “I was sold for 3,500 euros sexual slave. Then, she says, the man who Yanukovych earlier announced that the [$4,400]. I was beaten, raped, forced (Socialist Party of Ukraine), Viktor bought her took her out to the street.