DOCSLIB.ORG

Russia Cuts Off Gas Supplies to Ukraine Over Pricing Issues

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Russia Cuts Off Gas Supplies to Ukraine Over Pricing Issues InsIde: • “2008: THE YEAR IN REVIEW” – pages 5-37. HEPublished byKRAIN the Ukrainian National AssociationIAN Inc., a fraternal non-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXVIIT UNo. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY W 11, 2009 $1/$2 in Ukraine Voice of America ends Russia cuts off gas supplies radio broadcasts to Ukraine to Ukraine over pricing issues by Zenon Zawada A joint statement issued by President Kyiv Press Bureau Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on January 1 called for a price KYIV – In their biggest conflict ever, of $201 per 1,000 cubic meters and a natural Russian and Ukrainian natural gas officials gas transit rate of $2 for each 1,000 cubic failed to agree on prices for supplies and meters per 100 kilometers of Ukrainian transport, once again disrupting the vast pipeline. The Russian government wants to flow of natural gas into Europe and threat- keep the transit rate at $1.70 for 1,000 cubic ening economic crisis throughout the conti- meters transported per 100 kilometers. nent. As Russian and Ukrainian leaders hag- Gazprom, Russia’s government-owned gled over Ukraine’s price for natural gas and natural gas monopoly, cut off gas supplies to the price to use Ukraine’s pipelines – Ukraine the morning of January 1, setting Naftohaz Ukrayiny Chair Oleh Dubyna off cycling rounds of supply threats, accusa- spent several days fruitlessly negotiating tions of theft, bids, counter-bids and similar with Gazprom Chair Alexey Miller – posturing as part of negotiations that, for the European officials complained they were first time, extended beyond Christmas Day already suffering from the conflict. according to the Julian calendar, January 7. Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Romania, State officials and independent observers Macedonia, Croatia and Hungary reported cited numerous reasons why the Russian they lost all their Russian natural gas supply government is fomenting and prolonging the by January 6, and Czech officials reported Yaro Bihun conflict – damaging Ukraine’s image in their supply declined by 75 percent. Anya Dydyk-Petrenko, the anchor of VOA’s last Ukrainian radio program, Europe, gaining European support for gas The Bulgarian Ministry of the Economy which aired on December 31, 2008, contemplates her final farewell in the last pipelines circumventing Ukraine, damaging declared a crisis in its country. Hungarian minute of the broadcast. President Viktor Yushchenko’s standing, as officials said their country would rely on its well as pressuring Ukraine. natural gas reserves, which could last for by Yaro Bihun tive director of the Broadcasting Board of “We believe that the price that is being several weeks. proposed today, $417 to $450 (per 1,000 Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Governors (BBG), the radio broadcasts Transdnistria, the separatist enclave of cubic meters), is economic pressure on our were cut in order to devote VOA’s mis- Moldova loyal to Moscow, reported to the state that has no relation to realistic prices WASHINGTON – After more than half sion resources more effectively to the European Union and the Organization for that exist today on the European market,” a century of communicating with the peo- increasingly more popular modern means Security and Cooperation in Europe that it ple of Ukraine, the Voice of America of communication in Ukraine, as they are said Oleksander Shlapak, the Presidential ended its Ukrainian radio broadcasts on elsewhere – television and the Internet. Secretariat’s top economic advisor. (Continued on page 45) the last day of 2008. The BBG, the umbrella agency for all Those broadcasts, which began in non-military U.S. international broadcast- 1949, continued through the Cold War via ing, also oversees Radio Free Europe/ short-wave transmissions and since Radio Liberty, which will continue its Gazprom stops gas deliveries Ukraine’s independence over its internal Ukrainian-language radio broadcasts, he radio networks, were originally scheduled said. to Ukraine – What next? to be discontinued at the end of In an interview with The Ukrainian by Roman Kupchinsky September. At the last minute they Weekly, Mr. Trimble said that the board is tries were discussed in closed negotia- tions but with both parties resorting at the received a three-month reprieve, which required to review the mission of its lan- Eurasia Daily Monitor ran out on December 31. January 5 same time to public statements and According to Jeffrey Trimble, execu- (Continued on page 45) threats as a means of applying pressure On the morning of January 1, OAO on each other. Gazprom, the Russian state-owned gas Ukrainian arrears of $2.1 billion monopoly, in league with the Russian appeared to be the primary reason for the government, decreased the volume of cutoff. The Ukrainian state-owned ener- gas shipped to Ukraine by 90 million gy company, Naftohaz Ukrayiny, cubic meters a day – the amount that claimed, however, that the money was Ukraine had contracted for in 2008. Gas owed to RosUkrEnergo (RUE), a Swiss- shipments of 300 million cubic meters based intermediary company, 50 percent per day for European customers, shipped of which belongs to Gazprom and 50 via the Ukrainian trunk pipeline, were percent to two Ukrainian businessmen. not affected at first; but on January 2 Gazprom insisted that the money was Hungary, Bulgaria and Poland began owed to them. On December 31, 2008, recording drops in pipeline pressure and Naftohaz stated that the debt had been slight disruptions in supply, while paid in full. Gazprom spokesman Sergey Romania reported a gas decrease of 30 to Kuprianov disputed this and claimed that 40 percent. the Ukrainian side still owed $614 mil- In November 2008 Gazprom lion dollars in late charges. announced that it would stop gas deliver- RosUkrEnergo, which was made a ies to Ukraine on January 1, 2009, unless middleman for gas supplies to Ukraine at Kyiv settled all its accounts for gas deliv- Gazprom’s insistence in January 2006, ered in 2008, including late payment has been the center of a continuing con- penalties. Throughout December the two flict between Ukrainian Prime Minister From the Stefan Maksymjuk archives sides could not reach an agreement and Yulia Tymoshenko and Gazprom. Ms. VOA’s first Ukrainian radio broadcast was made from a New York studio on did not sign a contract for 2009 gas deliv- December 12, 1949. Shown sitting behind the small announcers’ table in this his- eries. The issues dividing the two coun- (Continued on page 44) toric photograph are (from left): Yevhen Prychodko, Olena Nessin and Ivan Kolos. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 2009 No. 2 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Russia gets a slow start Ukrainian citizens leave Gaza Laszlo Solyom of Hungary, Ivan Gasparovic of Slovakia, George Bush of KYIV – A total of 183 citizens from the United States, Nicolas Sarkozy of into a post-prosperity year countries of the Commonwealth of France and Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Independent States left the Gaza Strip on by Pavel K. Baev Republic, and European Commission January 2. According to various estimates, President Jose Manuel Barroso. The letter Eurasia Daily Monitor In autumn 2008 those evacuated include 40 to 60 Ukrainian noted that throughout the year 2008 January 5 citizens. A motorcade carrying the evacuees Ukraine held talks with Russia on the Gazprom was headed for Jordan; from there, two aircraft terms for delivery of natural gas to Ukraine The extra-long Christmas-New Year- of the Russian Emergencies Ministry was to Rozhdestvo (Julian calendar Christmas) and its transit across Ukraine to Europe for reaping record transport them to Moscow. Ukraine’s 2009 and the years to come. In the course celebrations in Russia have been muted Foreign Affairs Ministry said Ukrainian this season, and unmistakable anxiety of those talks, Ukraine acted in compli- profits from embassies in Egypt and Israel, Ukraine’s stands in stark contrast to the exuberance ance with the agreements reached by the office in the Palestinian National Authority that greeted the arrival of the year 2008. exporting gas to two countries’ presidents on February 12, and the ministry’s consular service depart- Just two weeks before that “best-year- 2008, and mutual commitments sealed by ment are monitoring the situation in the ever start,” President Vladimir Putin had Europe, because the October 2, 2008, intergovernmental Gaza Strip. According to Ukraine’s announced the name of his successor and memorandum of cooperation in gas indus- the price of gas Embassy in Israel, the number of Ukrainian the Russians were preparing to vote for try. Mr. Yushchenko noted that a memo on citizens currently on the territory of the Dmitry Medvedev with total confidence the establishment of direct long-term rela- follows that of oil Gaza Strip may be around 400. As of that nothing would change in Russia’s tions between Gazprom and Naftohaz on January 6, another 65 Ukrainian citizens astonishing success story. Now the “tan- the delivery and transit of Russian natural with a lag of six (22 adults and 43 children) asked for evacu- dem” system of leadership is firmly gas provides for a gradual transfer over the ation from the conflict zone. (Ukrinform) established, but the persistent pledges to to nine months. course of three years to free market prices, economically sound and mutually “stay the course” betray only the colossal Gas consultations with EU bureaucratic machine’s helplessness in These increased approved, for Russian gas and tariffs on its transit via Ukraine. “On December 30, the face of the sudden downturn, which is prices are set to KYIV – On the order of Ukrainian expected to accelerate (Vedomosti, President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime 2008, Ukraine fully paid the supplier for December 30, 2008; Kommersant-Vlast, disappear in 2009, Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a delegation the natural gas it received during the past December 22, 2008).
Load more

Recommended publications
  • 7 Political Corruption in Ukraine
    NATIONAL SECURITY & DEFENCE π 7 (111) CONTENTS POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN UKRAINE: ACTORS, MANIFESTATIONS, 2009 PROBLEMS OF COUNTERING (Analytical Report) ................................................................................................... 2 Founded and published by: SECTION 1. POLITICAL CORRUPTION AS A PHENOMENON: APPROACHES TO DEFINITION ..................................................................3 SECTION 2. POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN UKRAINE: POTENTIAL ACTORS, AREAS, MANIFESTATIONS, TRENDS ...................................................................8 SECTION 3. FACTORS INFLUENCING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COUNTERING UKRAINIAN CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC & POLITICAL STUDIES POLITICAL CORRUPTION ......................................................................33 NAMED AFTER OLEXANDER RAZUMKOV SECTION 4. CONCLUSIONS AND PROPOSALS ......................................................... 40 ANNEX 1 FOREIGN ASSESSMENTS OF THE POLITICAL CORRUPTION Director General Anatoliy Rachok LEVEL IN UKRAINE (INTERNATIONAL CORRUPTION RATINGS) ............43 Editor-in-Chief Yevhen Shulha ANNEX 2 POLITICAL CORRUPTION: SPECIFICITY, SCALE AND WAYS Layout and design Oleksandr Shaptala OF COUNTERING IN EXPERT ASSESSMENTS ......................................44 Technical & computer support Volodymyr Kekuh ANNEX 3 POLITICAL CORRUPTION: SCALE AND WAYS OF COUNTERING IN PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS AND ASSESSMENTS ...................................49 This magazine is registered with the State Committee ARTICLE of Ukraine for Information Policy, POLITICAL
    [Show full text]
  • Post-Perestroika Warrior – Geoff Rey Cox Withdraws
    MOSCOW SEPTEMBER 2009 www.passportmagazine.ru The State of Russian TV Professor William Brumfi eld Zamoskvorechye Post-Perestroika Warrior – Geoff rey Cox Withdraws Contents 4 What’s On in September 6 September Holidays 7 Previews 12 Art History 12 Yevgeny Oks 14 Culture Russian Hospitality Children’s TV The Present State of Russian TV 20 History Remembering the Holocaust 20 24 Travel Art Courses in Edinburgh 26 Viewpoint Anth Ginn in Russia 28 Restaurant Review Barashka Friends Forever 28 32 Wine Tasting Crisis Wine Buying 34 Interview Professor William Craft Brumfield – Architectural Historian Extraordinaire 36 Book review History of Russian Architecture, Professor W. Brumfield 34 37 Out&About Expat Football League Summer Tournament 38 Real Estate Zamoskvorechye 42 Columns Alexander Ziminsky, Penny Lane Realty: To Buy or Not To Buy Sherman Pereira, Crown Relocations: 38 Transporting Fine Art 44 Community Football: The Moscow Bhoys 46 Last Word Geoffrey Cox OBE 48 Viewpoint Michael Romanov 44 September 2009 3 Letter from the Publisher Soviet Jews are arguably one of the longest suffering races of modern history. We all know that Jews were repressed by the Soviets, however it is a little known fact that the Nazis efficiently and ruthlessly eliminated a large number of Jews from Soviet territory they occupied. Phil Baillie investigates. Geoffrey Cox OBE is somebody who many of us know. He is returning to England, al- though he will be visiting from time to time on business. His departure marks something of an end of an era of expat life here in Russia, as the original post-perestroika settlers gradually move on.
    [Show full text]
  • For Free Distribution
    ELECTIONS LeGAL ASSESSMENT US AMBASSADOR GeOFFREY PYATT IN UKRAINE OF THE 2014 RuSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR ON CHALLENGES FOR UKRAINE № 14 (80) NOVEMBER 2014 WWW.UKRAINIANWEEK.COM Featuring selected content from The Economist FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION |CONTENTS BRIEFING Lobbymocracy: Ukraine does not have Rapid Response Elections: The victory adequate support in the West, either in of pro-European parties must be put political circles, or among experts. The to work toward rapid and irreversible situation with the mass media and civil reforms. Otherwise it will quickly turn society is slightly better into an equally impressive defeat 28 4 Leonidas Donskis: An imagined dialogue on several clichés and misperceptions POLITICS 30 Starting a New Life, Voting as Before: Elections in the Donbas NEIGHBOURS 8 Russia’s gangster regime – the real story Broken Democracy on the Frontline: “Unhappy, poorly dressed people, 31 mostly elderly, trudged to the polls Karen Dawisha, the author of Putin’s to cast their votes for one of the Kleptocracy, on the loyalty of the Russian richest people in Donetsk Oblast” President’s team, the role of Ukraine in his grip 10 on power, and on Russia’s money in Europe Poroshenko’s Blunders: 32 The President’s bloc is painfully The Bear, Master of itsT aiga Lair: reminiscent of previous political Russians support the Kremlin’s path towards self-isolation projects that failed bitterly and confrontation with the West, ignoring the fact that they don’t have a realistic chance of becoming another 12 pole of influence in the world 2014
    [Show full text]
  • Local and Regional Government in Ukraine and the Development of Cooperation Between Ukraine and the EU
    Local and regional government in Ukraine and the development of cooperation between Ukraine and the EU The report was written by the Aston Centre for Europe - Aston University. It does not represent the official views of the Committee of the Regions. More information on the European Union and the Committee of the Regions is available on the internet at http://www.europa.eu and http://www.cor.europa.eu respectively. Catalogue number: QG-31-12-226-EN-N ISBN: 978-92-895-0627-4 DOI: 10.2863/59575 © European Union, 2011 Partial reproduction is allowed, provided that the source is explicitly mentioned Table of Contents 1 PART ONE .................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Introduction..................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Overview of local and regional government in Ukraine ................................ 3 1.3 Ukraine’s constitutional/legal frameworks for local and regional government 7 1.4 Competences of local and regional authorities............................................... 9 1.5 Electoral democracy at the local and regional level .....................................11 1.6 The extent and nature of fiscal decentralisation in Ukraine .........................15 1.7 The extent and nature of territorial reform ...................................................19 1.8 The politics of Ukrainian administrative reform plans.................................21 1.8.1 Position of ruling government ..................................................................22
    [Show full text]
  • The Role of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi and the Kozaks in the Rusin Struggle for Independence from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: 1648--1649
    University of Windsor Scholarship at UWindsor Electronic Theses and Dissertations Theses, Dissertations, and Major Papers 1-1-1967 The role of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi and the Kozaks in the Rusin struggle for independence from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: 1648--1649. Andrew B. Pernal University of Windsor Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd Recommended Citation Pernal, Andrew B., "The role of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi and the Kozaks in the Rusin struggle for independence from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: 1648--1649." (1967). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 6490. https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/6490 This online database contains the full-text of PhD dissertations and Masters’ theses of University of Windsor students from 1954 forward. These documents are made available for personal study and research purposes only, in accordance with the Canadian Copyright Act and the Creative Commons license—CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works). Under this license, works must always be attributed to the copyright holder (original author), cannot be used for any commercial purposes, and may not be altered. Any other use would require the permission of the copyright holder. Students may inquire about withdrawing their dissertation and/or thesis from this database. For additional inquiries, please contact the repository administrator via email ([email protected]) or by telephone at 519-253-3000ext. 3208. THE ROLE OF BOHDAN KHMELNYTSKYI AND OF THE KOZAKS IN THE RUSIN STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE FROM THE POLISH-LI'THUANIAN COMMONWEALTH: 1648-1649 by A ‘n d r e w B. Pernal, B. A. A Thesis Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Windsor in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Faculty of Graduate Studies 1967 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner.
    [Show full text]
  • WTO Documents Online
    WORLD TRADE RESTRICTED WT/ACC/UKR/110 24 October 2002 ORGANIZATION (02-5874) Working Party on the Accession of Ukraine ACCESSION OF UKRAINE Check-list of Issues In response to an invitation at the last meeting of the Working Party on the Accession of Ukraine, members submitted specific proposals, comments and suggestions including, the commitments expected from Ukraine for inclusion in a consolidated check-list of issues. The specific responses of the Governmental Commission on Ukraine's accession to the WTO to each of the issues in the check-list are reproduced hereunder. The annexes mentioned in the responses are reproduced in document WT/ACC/UKR/110/Add.1 _______________ WT/ACC/UKR/110 Page i TABLE OF CONTENTS General Comments ................................................................................................................................1 II. ECONOMY, ECONOMIC POLICIES AND FOREIGN TRADE .....................................3 2. Economic Policies......................................................................................................................3 (a) Main direction of ongoing economic policies..........................................................................3 IV. POLICIES AFFECTING TRADE IN GOODS ...................................................................14 1. Import Regulation...................................................................................................................14 (a) Registration requirements for engaging in importing.........................................................14
    [Show full text]
  • Contours and Consequences of the Lexical Divide in Ukrainian
    Geoffrey Hull and Halyna Koscharsky1 Contours and Consequences of the Lexical Divide in Ukrainian When compared with its two large neighbours, Russian and Polish, the Ukrainian language presents a picture of striking internal variation. Not only are Ukrainian dialects more mutually divergent than those of Polish or of territorially more widespread Russian,2 but on the literary level the language has long been characterized by the existence of two variants of the standard which have never been perfectly harmonized, in spite of the efforts of nationalist writers for a century and a half. While Ukraine’s modern standard language is based on the eastern dialect of the Kyiv-Poltava-Kharkiv triangle, the literary Ukrainian cultivated by most of the diaspora communities continues to follow to a greater or lesser degree the norms of the Lviv koiné in 1 The authors would like to thank Dr Lance Eccles of Macquarie University for technical assistance in producing this paper. 2 De Bray (1969: 30-35) identifies three main groups of Russian dialects, but the differences are the result of internal evolutionary divergence rather than of external influences. The popular perception is that Russian has minimal dialectal variation compared with other major European languages. Maximilian Fourman (1943: viii), for instance, told students of Russian that the language ‘is amazingly uniform; the same language is spoken over the vast extent of the globe where the flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics flies; and you will be understood whether you are speaking to a peasant or a university professor. There are no dialects to bother you, although, of course, there are parts of the Soviet Union where Russian may be spoken rather differently, as, for instance, English is spoken differently by a Londoner, a Scot, a Welshman, an Irishman, or natives of Yorkshire or Cornwall.
    [Show full text]
  • President of China Enlists Ukraine's Support During Visit to Kyiv U.S. National Security Adviser Presses Reform in Ukraine
    INSIDE:• Paris Declaration seeks more transparency in OSCE — page 3. • Heorhii Gongadze awarded international journalism prize — page 4. • Lviv scholar notes continuing Russification in Ukraine — page 12. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIX HE KRAINIANNo. 30 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2001 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine President of China enlists Ukraine’s support during visit to Kyiv U.S. Tnational securityU adviser W by Maryna Makhnonos presses reform in Ukraine Special to The Ukrainian Weekly by Maryna Makhnonos KYIV – President Jiang Zemin of China enlisted Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Ukraine’s support for his country’s opposition to U.S. missile defense plans and preservation of the ABM KYIV – Ukraine’s integration into European society treaty, signing a joint Chinese-Ukrainian declaration of depends upon political and economic reforms, as well as friendship and comprehensive cooperation on July 21. transparent investigations of journalists’ killings, U.S. “This treaty is the foundation of the structure of inter- National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said on July 25 during her visit to Ukraine’s capital. national agreements on limiting and reducing strategic “A very strong message is sent about political reform, offensive weapons,” the declaration said. about free press, judiciary reform and transparency in the “Ukraine and China believe that global strategic sta- [murder] cases that are of worldwide attention here,” Dr. bility and international safety depend upon the 1972 Rice said during a meeting with representatives of leading Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty,” it said. Ukrainian media outlets and non-governmental organiza- Mr.
    [Show full text]
  • Mapping the Ukrainian Poetry of New York
    Introduction: Mapping the Ukrainian Poetry of New York In the midst of ever-increasing quantity, anthologies enable individual voices to be heard above the collective noise. —Czeslaw Milosz1 In the very city of New York literally every day poets read their work in dozens of different places: at museums, churches, universities, various institutions, libraries, theatres, galleries, cafes and private places. […] Every place that has a roof is a place for poetry. —Bohdan Boychuk2 This poetry is no hymn to the homeland; rather the gaze of the allegorist, as it falls on the city, is the gaze of alienated man. It is the gaze of the flaneur, whose way of life still conceals behind a mitigating nimbus the coming desolation of the big-city dweller. —Walter Benjamin3 The Encounter Legend has it that on a mid-fall day in 1966, while on an official trip to New York City as part of the Soviet-Ukrainian delegation to the annual convention of the United Nations, Ivan Drach—then a thirty-year-old aspiring poet and screenwriter—managed to escape the KGB personnel tailing the poet and headed into a district of the city totally unknown to him. After wandering around this strange neighborhood, the poet stopped before a cafeteria, entered it, and spotted a bearded, bespectacled man sitting in the corner as if waiting for someone. Drach approached him; the two men shook hands. The bearded man, believed to be the American poet Allen Ginsberg, lived nearby in an area known as the East Village. The Ukrainian poet did not know conversational English well, and Ginsberg did not know any Ukrainian.
    [Show full text]
  • Memorialization of the Jewish Tragedy at Babi Yar Aleksandr Burakovskiy∗
    Nationalities Papers Vol. 39, No. 3, May 2011, 371–389 Holocaust remembrance in Ukraine: memorialization of the Jewish tragedy at Babi Yar Aleksandr Burakovskiy∗ Independent Scholar, United States (Received 24 November 2009; final version received 26 January 2011) At the core of the debate in Ukraine about Babi Yar lies the Holocaust. Between 1941 and 1943 1.5 million Jews perished in Ukraine, yet a full understanding of that tragedy has been suppressed consistently by ideologies and interpretations of history that minimize or ignore this tragedy. For Soviet ideologues, admitting to the existence of the Holocaust would have been against the tenet of a “Soviet people” and the aggressive strategy of eliminating national and religious identities. A similar logic of oneness is being applied now in the ideological formation of an independent Ukraine. However, rather than one Soviet people, now there is one Ukrainian people under which numerous historical tragedies are being subsumed, and the unique national tragedies of other peoples on the territory of Ukraine, such as the massive destruction of Jews, is again being suppressed. According to this political idea assiduously advocated most recently during the Yushchenko presidency, the twentieth century in Ukraine was a battle for liberation. Within this new, exclusive history, the Holocaust, again, has found no real place. The author reviews the complicated history regarding the memorialization of the Jewish tragedy in Babi Yar through three broad chronological periods: 1943–1960, 1961–1991, and 1992–2009. Keywords: Babi Yar; Jews in Ukraine; anti-Semitism; Holocaust At the core of the decades-long debate in Ukraine about the memorialization of the Jewish tragedy at Babi Yar lies a lack of acknowledgement of the Holocaust.
    [Show full text]
  • The Ukrainian Weekly 1995, No.22
    www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE: • Presidential assistant reflects on Clintons state visit to Kyyiv — page 3. • Wrap-up of UNA General Assembly deliberations — page 5. • On the occasion of Memorial Day — centerfold. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIII No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1995 75 cents/$2 in Ukraine Ukraine's Parliament passes law on powers Over 700,000 gather by Marta Kolomayets Kyyiv Press Bureau at shrine in Zarvanytsia KYYIV - Although the Ukrainian Parliament finally ratified the long-delayed "Law on State Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Press Office Power and Local Government" on May 18, the bill ZARVANYTSIA, Ukraine - Between 700,000 and 1 mil­ cannot be implemented until necessary changes are lion (police estimate) faithful of the Ukrainian Greek- made in the Ukrainian Constitution, or a constitu­ Catholic Church from Ukraine and the Commonwealth of tional agreement is signed by President Leonid Independent States joined together in this holy place on May Kuchma and the Parliament. 21 to pray for their Church and nation as it was consecrated President Kuchma's supporters have labeled the to the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary by the head of vote of 219-104 in favor of the bill "a major victory" the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, Cardinal Myroslav for the Ukrainian leader, however, in truth, the battle is Ivan Lubachivsky, and the bishops of the Church in Ukraine. not over, as the law has yet to take effect. The bishops were joined by Cardinal Franjo Kuharic, car­ The powers bill, as the law on state power has been .
    [Show full text]
  • Culture and Customs of Ukraine Ukraine
    Culture and Customs of Ukraine Ukraine. Courtesy of Bookcomp, Inc. Culture and Customs of Ukraine ADRIANA HELBIG, OKSANA BURANBAEVA, AND VANJA MLADINEO Culture and Customs of Europe GREENWOOD PRESS Westport, Connecticut • London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Helbig, Adriana. Culture and customs of Ukraine / Adriana Helbig, Oksana Buranbaeva and Vanja Mladineo. p. cm. — (Culture and customs of Europe) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–313–34363–6 (alk. paper) 1. Ukraine—Civilization. 2. Ukraine—Social life and customs. I. Buranbaeva, Oksana. II. Mladineo, Vanja. III. Title. IV. Series. DK508.4.H45 2009 947.7—dc22 2008027463 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 2009 by Adriana Helbig, Oksana Buranbaeva, and Vanja Mladineo All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2008027463 ISBN: 978–0–313–34363–6 First published in 2009 Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. www.greenwood.com Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48–1984). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The authors dedicate this book to Marijka Stadnycka Helbig and to the memory of Omelan Helbig; to Rimma Buranbaeva, Christoph Merdes, and Ural Buranbaev; to Marko Pećarević. This page intentionally left blank Contents Series Foreword ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Chronology xv 1 Context 1 2 Religion 30 3 Language 48 4 Gender 59 5 Education 71 6 Customs, Holidays, and Cuisine 90 7 Media 114 8 Literature 127 viii CONTENTS 9 Music 147 10 Theater and Cinema in the Twentieth Century 162 Glossary 173 Selected Bibliography 177 Index 187 Series Foreword The old world and the New World have maintained a fluid exchange of people, ideas, innovations, and styles.
    [Show full text]