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The Ukrainian Week ELMAR BROK ON JAILED PAGE SHAMEFUL CANDIDATES ON THE PAGE AFTER THE OLYMPICS: PAGE OPPOSITION LEADERS AND AN UNITED OPPOSITION'S LIST WHO TURNING OPTIMISM AND HOPE UNDEMOCRATIC ELECTION 13 COULD JUMP SHIP ONCE ELECTED 18 INTO A VALUABLE ASSET 36 № 14 (37) SEPTEMBER 2012 WHO CREATED THE MANIPULATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM IN UKRAINE? THE LACK OF A MEDIA MARKET MAKES IT EASY FOR YANUKOVYCH TO CONTROL THE FOURTH POWER WWW.UKRAINIANWEEK.COMWWW.UKRAINIANWEEK.COM FORFOR FREEFREE DISTRIBUTIONDISTRIBUTION FeaturingF t i selectedl t d contentt t from The Economist 01_FACE.indd 1 30.08.2012 21:04:55 2|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|№ 14 (37) SEPTEMBER 2012 |CONTENTS BRIEFING FOCUS The Only “Regional Language”: Sleeping Beauty Walking Recent developments signal that the and Bread Crumbs: the Tightrope: Kolesnichenko-Kivalov language law The Yanukovych and the Kremlin Yanukovych and is aimed at the renewed Russification regimes are using the lack of the the media in the of all Ukrainians, regardless of their effective Fourth Power in Ukraine election season ethnic backgrounds to their advantage 4 6 11 POLITICS A Big Silence: Elmar Brok Yuriy Lutsenko: Yuriy Makarov talks about jailed opposition I’m afraid of excessive on the role of leaders and the upcoming micro leadership the media in parliamentary election that ambitions within the society can already be considered united opposition undemocratic 12 13 14 Leading without Leadership: They Call Themselves the Opposition: Government in the Service Yanukovych’s regime has There are no odious characters of Monopolies: turned Yulia Tymoshenko among the United Opposition’s Those in power work to strengthen into a symbol of resistance, parliamentary candidates, yet some business groups close to them yet her real influence in the might easily jump ship after the while feigning efforts to fight election monopolies opposition is waning 16 18 22 ECONOMICS NEIGHBOURS A Cure to Fend off Charles Beigbeder Erkki Bahovski Poverty: talks about his investment on the importance How Ukraine can experience in Ukraine and of Estonia save its economy its agricultural potential regaining its from a systemic independence crisis 26 29 30 SOCIETY Money Games: Faster, Higher, After the Olympics: Where did hundreds No Longer: How will Britain use of millions of hryvnias Is it time to optimism, hope and allocated from the state update the sports facilities left after budget to prepare for the Olympic credo? one of the best games 2012 Olympics disappear? 32 34 in years? 36 HISTORY CULTURE & ARTS Fast Down Dagmar Eternal Questions on Film: the Rails: Ostrzhanska A feature length The turbulent talks about the documentary by director history of Czech Centre in Oleksandr Balahura is a electric trams Kyiv and Ukrainian summary of the past 15-20 38 underground art 42 years in Ukraine 44 NAVIGATOR The Hero, the Son of a Hero: Rocky Steppe: The first Ukrainian full-length Mykolayiv Oblast lures tourists 3D cartoon with the energy of the turbulent Southern Buh and the virginity of its granite prairies 46 48 The Ukrainian Week № 14 (37) September 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: The Novy Druk, LLC, 1 Mahnitohorska Str. Serhiy Lytvynenko, Editor-in-Chief, The Ukrainian Week Ordering number: 12-5830. Print run: 15,000 Natalia Romanec, Shaun Williams, Editors; Sent to print on 30 August 2012 Anna Korbut, Translator Free distribution № 14 (37) SEPTEMBER 2012|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|3 BRIEFING| 29 August 15 August The Higher Special Court for Civil and Criminal Cases Unknown people rejects Yulia Tymoshenko’s appeal to overturn the deci- destroyed the tent city sion of the Pechersk Court and to close the case against of protesters against the her for lack of evidence language law in Kharkiv The Only “Regional Language” Recent developments signal that the Kolesnichenko-Kivalov language law is aimed at the renewed Russification of all Ukrainians regardless of their ethnic backgrounds he regional language has been and is shared by the country’s leaders, Bukovyna, Western Ukraine, said that officially adopted in oblasts suggesting that the language law is there are already plenty of Romanian where the Party of Regions (PR) aimed at reviving Russification rather schools, and officials and police offi- Thas won recent national and lo- than protecting endangered lan- cers in Romanian ethnic regions spoke cal elections and holds a majority in guages. For instance, Ismail’s City the language before the new law was local and city councils. These include Council ruled to make Russian an offi- passed. Therefore, they do not need the Oblast Councils of Odesa, Myko- cial regional language while refusing urgent implementation of the language layiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro- to grant this status to Bulgarian, de- law. However, he failed to address the petrovsk, Donetsk, Luhansk and spite the fact that the local Bulgarian question of why parliament passed the Kharkiv Oblasts, and the City Councils minority amounts to more than the law in the first place. of Odesa, Sevastopol, Kharkiv, Krasnyi necessary 10% based on the latest cen- Minority languages are now irritating Luch and Pervomaisk in Luhansk sus. Ismail Mayor Andriy Abram- the PR, especially as opposition MPs Oblast, and Ismail City Council in chenko offered a typical soviet-style grow more proactive on their behalf. Odesa Oblast. comment: “having the Russian lan- Opposition MP Hennadiy Moskal has The regional status was only granted guage as the language of communica- threatened to sue Andriy Kliuyev, to the Russian language in each and tion for Ismail’s more than 80 differ- Chair of the National Defense and Se- every of the abovementioned oblasts ent ethnic groups” is enough. Andriy curity Council, for responding in and cities. This contradicts its spon- Fedoruk, Head of the Donetsk Oblast Ukrainian to a request written and sors’ declarations that the law would Council, said that other city councils filed in the Rusyn minority language. comply with the European Charter for may follow suit and try to introduce Later, he filed another request to Regional or Minority Languages. No other regional languages – Greek, for Mykola Azarov in Yiddish, probably to language other than Russian, includ- instance – yet they should think twice find out whether he, like Mykhailo ing those that are truly endangered about where they will get the money to Chechetov, views Rusyn and Yiddish and need protection, has ever received pay for the initiative. as languages that ‘just a handful’ of official protection. First Deputy Head Surprisingly, representatives of mi- people speak. Now he is continuing the of the PR faction in the parliament norities within the PR who could have experiment among regional authori- Mykhailo Chechetov explained his used the party’s influence to promote ties. In turn, the law’s sponsors were party’s reasoning, stating, “46 million the interests of their ethnic groups are forced to drop some of its clauses. For people understand two languages – actually making excuses for the party, instance, they recommended cancel- Russian and Ukrainian. Not Bulgar- a situation that parallels that of mi- ing the requirement to print voting ian, Hungarian, Romanian, Jewish— norities in the Communist Party of the ballots in the languages of different Yiddish or Hebrew or whatever you USSR. They insist that there is no need ethnic minorities. say. Only a handful of people under- to secure special status for the lan- Paradoxically, the only territory in the stand those languages. We’re talking guages of their ethnic groups within South where Russia has not yet be- about two languages here that the the PR because they were well off be- come an official regional language is whole nation understands.” fore the law. For instance, Ivan Crimea, where the share of ethnic Rus- This standpoint prevails among local Popescu, a PR member and represen- sians is over 50%. The reason for this authorities in majority PR districts tative of the Romanian community in actually lies in the PR’s reluctance to The month 6 August 1928 16 August 1941 18 August 1941 in history Andy Warhol, a Decree No. 270 NKVD blows up the leading Ameri- is issued in the Dnipro Hydroelectric can pop-artist USSR, whereby all Power Station, killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war are 100,000 Red Army origin, is born classed as traitors soldiers and locals 4|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|№ 14 (37) SEPTEMBER 2012 |BRIEFING 12 August 10 August 8 August 6 August The 2012 The Polish Ministry Viktor The SevastopolA dmin- Summer of Foreign Affairs recalls Yanukovych istrativeC ourt bans Olympics the staff of its consulate signs the the “Ukraine without end in in Lutsk as a result of notorious Yanukovych” campaign London a corruption scandal language law in the city Mykhailo Chechetov makes it clear that the language law has nothing to do with the protection of national The Only “Regional Language” minorities and their languages Recent developments signal that the Kolesnichenko-Kivalov language law provide equal status to the Crimean Tatar language—or even the Ukrainian is aimed at the renewed Russification of all Ukrainians regardless of their language—neglected there as a result of Constitutional violations. Until re- ethnic backgrounds cently, Russian was de facto the only official language and the local authori- ties were openly unhappy about offi- cial correspondence with Kyiv being held in Ukrainian, the only official state language. Crimean Tatars have already shown concern with the fact that the local authorities are backped- alling the implementation of the law.
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