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Ukraine Ukraine at a Glance: 2002-03
COUNTRY REPORT Ukraine Ukraine at a glance: 2002-03 OVERVIEW Efforts by both pro- and anti-presidential forces to gain the upper hand in the parliamentary election due by March 2002 will increasingly dominate the political scene. The president, Leonid Kuchma, and his parliamentary allies are likely to succeed in using their superior administrative and media resources to limit the gains of their opponents. The government will remain in power until the 2002 election and is unlikely to roll back its predecessor’s reform achievements, although electoral politics will preclude further significant reforms. The economy will grow at a more moderate pace in 2002-03, following buoyant growth in 2001. Year-end inflation will rise slightly to 12% in 2002, owing to further price liberalisation and election- related policy loosening, before falling again in 2003. Sustained export growth will ensure current-account surpluses in 2002-03, although these will narrow because of strengthening import demand and continued real currency appreciation. Key changes from last month Political outlook • The former prime minister Viktor Yushchenko looks increasingly likely to try to build an alliance for the 2002 election that is more centre- than reform-based. Economic policy outlook • Multilateral financing has resumed as expected, and should now permit completion of Ukraine’s Paris Club debts. The narrowing of the budget surplus in August underlines the Economist Intelligence Unit’s forecast that the government is likely to end the year with a slight budget deficit. Economic forecast • Preliminary trade data for the start of the third quarter has prompted a slight revision in our trade surplus forecast for this year. -
Chapter IX: Ukrainian Musical Folklore Discography As a Preserving Factor
Art Spiritual Dimensions of Ukrainian Diaspora: Collective Scientific Monograph DOI 10.36074/art-sdoud.2020.chapter-9 Nataliia Fedorniak UKRAINIAN MUSICAL FOLKLORE DISCOGRAPHY AS A PRESERVING FACTOR IN UKRAINIAN DIASPORA NATIONAL SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE ABSTRACT: The presented material studies one of the important forms of transmission of the musical folklore tradition of Ukrainians in the United States and Canada during the XX – the beginning of the XXI centuries – sound recording, which is a component of the national spiritual experience of emigrants. Founded in the 1920s, the recording industry has been actively developed and has become a form of preservation and promotion of the traditional musical culture of Ukrainians in North America. Sound recordings created an opportunity to determine the features of its main genres, the evolution of forms, that are typical for each historical period of Ukrainians’ sedimentation on the American continent, as well as to understand the specifics of the repertoire, instruments and styles of performance. Leading record companies in the United States have recorded authentic Ukrainian folklore reconstructed on their territory by rural musicians and choirs. Arranged folklore material is represented by choral and bandura recordings, to which are added a large number of records, cassettes, CDs of vocal-instrumental pop groups and soloists, where significantly and stylistically diversely recorded secondary Ukrainian folklore (folklorism). INTRODUCTION. The social and political situation in Ukraine (starting from the XIX century) caused four emigration waves of Ukrainians and led to the emergence of a new cultural phenomenon – the art and folklore of Ukrainian emigration, i.e. diaspora culture. Having found themselves in difficult ambiguous conditions, where there was no favorable living environment, Ukrainian musical folklore began to lose its original identity and underwent assimilation processes. -
The Impact of Changes in Electoral Systems: a Comparative Analysis of the Local Election in Ukraine in 2006 and 2010
STUDIA VOL. 36 POLITOLOGICZNE STUDIA I ANALIZY Olena Yatsunska The impact of changes in electoral systems: a comparative analysis of the local election in Ukraine in 2006 and 2010 KEY WORDS: local government, local elections, proportional electoral system, majoritarian electoral system, mixed majoritarian-proportional electoral system, Ukraine STUDIA I ANALIZY Having gained independence in 1991 Ukraine, like most Central and East- ern European countries, faced the need for radical Constitutional reforms, with reorganization of local government figuring high in the agenda. Like other post-soviet countries, Ukraine had to decide on the starting point and like in the neighboring countries, democratic euphoria of the early 1990s got the upper hand: local authorities were elected on March 18, 1990, while the Law On Local People’s Deputies of Ukrainian SSR and Local Self-government was adopted by Verkhovna Rada of Ukrainian SSR on December 7, 1990. Ukrain- ian Researchers in the field of local government and its reforms concur with the opinion that the present dissatisfactory state of that institution was con- ditioned by the first steps made by Ukrainian Politicians at the beginning of the ‘transition’ period. Without clear perspective of reform, during more than 20 years of Independence, Ukrainian local government has abided dozens of laws, sometimes rather contradictory and has survived more than 10 stages of restructuring. Evolution of election legislation in Ukraine is demonstrated by Table 1. The table shows that since 1994 three electoral systems have been tested in Ukraine: 1, Majoritarian, 2, Proportional except elections to village and settlement councils and 3, ‘Mixed’ system (50% Majoritarian+50% Proportional). -
Judges Scores
ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2008 LADIES FREE SKATING JUDGES DETAILS PER SKATER Total Total Total Total NOC Segment Element Program Component Deductions Rank Name Code Score Score Score (factored) = + + - 1 Yu-Na KIM KOR 123.38 64.82 58.56 0.00 # Executed Base GOE The Judges Panel Scores Elements Info Value (in random order) of Panel 1 3F+3T 9.50 1.86 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 0 11.36 2 2A 3.50 0.57 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 2 1 4.07 3 FSSp4 3.00 0.50 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 0 3.50 4 3Lz+2T+2Lo 8.80 0.71 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 -1 9.51 5 SpSq4 3.40 1.00 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 4.40 6 2A+3T 8.25 x 0.43 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 -1 8.68 7 FCCoSp4 3.50 0.64 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 0 4.14 8 1Lz 0.66 x 0.03 0 1 -1 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.69 9 3S 4.95 x -0.86 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 0 -1 -1 -1 0 -1 4.09 10 CoSp3 2.50 0.14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 2.64 11 SlSt3 3.10 0.29 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 3.39 12 2A 3.85 x 0.71 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 4.56 13 CCoSp4 3.50 0.29 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 3.79 58.51 64.82 Program Components Factor Skating Skills 1.60 7.50 7.75 7.25 7.25 7.25 7.25 8.50 7.25 8.00 7.25 8.00 7.50 7.57 Transition / Linking Footwork 1.60 6.75 7.50 6.00 7.00 6.75 6.25 7.00 7.00 7.25 6.75 8.00 7.00 7.00 Performance / Execution 1.60 7.25 7.50 6.50 7.25 6.75 7.50 8.25 7.25 8.25 7.00 8.25 7.50 7.46 Choreography / Composition 1.60 7.25 7.25 6.75 6.75 7.00 7.25 8.00 7.00 7.75 7.00 7.75 7.00 7.25 Interpretation 1.60 7.25 7.25 6.50 7.00 6.75 7.50 8.25 7.00 7.75 7.25 8.00 7.25 7.32 Judges Total Program Component Score (factored) 58.56 Deductions: 0.00 * Invalid -
The Negative Consequences of Proportional Representation in Ukraine
THE NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION IN UKRAINE SERHIJ VASYLCHENKO POLITICAL GEOGRAPHER Abstract: Ukraine has changed its electoral law numerous times. The first two elections to the parliament in 1990 and 1994 employed a single-member district majoritarian system. The Verkhovna Rada elections in 1998 and 2002 used a mixed system with single- member districts and proportional representation. The parliamentary elections in 2006 and 2007 were purely proportional representation. Finally, the elections in 2012 went back to the mixed system. This article argues that the use of proportional representation has facilitated extensive manipulation in the Ukrainian political system through the creation of “party projects” and by severing the link between parliamentarians and their constituents. fter Ukraine gained its independence in 1991, it faced an urgent need Ato reform its electoral legislation to address new political realities – most importantly, the development of a multiparty system in place of the previous one-party system that had ruled the Soviet Union. According to the existing law adopted during the Soviet era, parties other than the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had no legal basis. That law laid out a first past the post majoritarian system in which the winner had to win an absolute majority of the votes.1 The opposition national-democrat deputies in the People’s Rada group in the first years of independence supported electoral law reform Serhij Vasylchenko is an independent political geographer in Ukraine, [email protected]. 1 Law “On elections of the people’s deputies of the Ukrainian SSR” from October 27, 1987, Vedomosti Verkhnoi Rady USSR, 1989 addendum to N 45, article 626 <http://zakon4.rada. -
Partnership Stewardship Leadership
2019 PARTNERSHIP STEWARDSHIP LEADERSHIP ШЕВЧЕНКІВСЬКА ФУНДАЦІЯ РІЧНИЙ ЗВІТ SHEVCHENKO FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT Leadership •Stewardship•Partnership 202-952 Main Street Winnipeg, Manitoba R2W 3P4 shevchenkofoundation.com Leadership •Stewardship•Partnership НАША МІСІЯ TABLE РАДА ДИРЕКТОРІВ ІНВЕСТИЦІЙНА КОМІСІЯ КОНТРОЛЬНА КОМІСІЯ Українська канадська Фундація ім. Т.Шевченка – це BOARD OF DIRECTORS INVESTMENT COMMITTEE AUDIT COMMITTEE національна благодійна організація, що створена для OF CONTENTS збереження, підтримки та розвитку українсько- канадської культурної спадщини. Фундація сприяє вдосконаленню процвітання української громади для збагачення канадського Board of Directors and Committees ....1 суспільства шляхом лідерської позиції у створенні й підтримці постійного фонду пожертвувань. President’s Message .............................2 OUR MISSION The Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko is a Farewells and Welcomes .....................4 Андрій Ірка Мицак Володимир Шумей Максим Троян Скотт Армстронґ national, chartered philanthropic institution dedicated to the Гладишевський Q.C. Irka Mycak Wally Shoemay Max Trojan Scott Armstrong preservation, promotion and development of the Ukrainian Investment Committee Report ............5 Andrew VICE-PRESIDENT CHAIR MEMBER SECRETARY-TREASURER Canadian cultural heritage and to the advancement of a Hladyshevsky, Q.C. TORONTO, ON WEST VANCOUVER, BC TORONTO, ON WINNIPEG, MB flourishing Ukrainian community for the enrichment of Canada PRESIDENT EDMONTON, AB by providing leadership in building -
Solemn March Recalls 10 Million Victims of Holodomor
INSIDE: • Positions of prime minister, Rada chair in question — page 3. • Ukrainian American Veterans’ national convention — page 4. • Official statements on the Holodomor — page 9. HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXXV No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2007 $1/$2 in Ukraine Solemn march recalls 10 million victims of Holodomor by Matthew Dubas across the United States, contained infor- mation on the Holodomor and its effects, NEW YORK – Multitudes of and identified the Soviet regime under Ukrainians gathered here in front of St. Joseph Stalin as the perpetrator of the George Ukrainian Catholic Church on largest crime against humanity of the 20th Seventh Street before heading uptown century. along Third Avenue to St. Patrick’s The brochure also contained a tear-out Cathedral, located at Fifth Avenue and card that could be mailed to U.S. 51st Street, in a march to commemorate Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, urg- the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor, ing her and the U.S. government to recog- the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933. nize the Holodomor as an act of genocide Among the marchers was a requiem against the Ukrainian people. The bell that pealed throughout the streets of brochure provided a website address New York capturing the gaze of onlookers (www.ukrainegenocide.org) for more who saw the many flags, banners and information. It also directed individuals posters that told of the story of the who would like to get involved with Holodomor, which systematically killed future projects to contact the Ukrainian by starvation between 7 million and 10 National Information Service at 202-547- million Ukrainians. -
Senior Ladies Planned Program Content - Check List As Of: 09.12.2008 23:17:17 Joannie ROCHETTE CAN SP/OD Remarks
- Senior Ladies Planned Program Content - Check List As of: 09.12.2008 23:17:17 Joannie ROCHETTE CAN SP/OD Remarks 1 2A Double Axel 2 3F+3T Triple Flip+Triple Toeloop 3 FSSp Flying Sit Spin 4 3Lz Triple Lutz 5 CCoSp Change Foot Combination Spin 6 SlSt Straight Line Step Sequence 7 SpSq Spiral Sequence 8 LSp Layback Spin 9 10 FS/FD Remarks 1 3Lz+2T+2Lo Triple Lutz+Double Toeloop+Double Loop 2 3F Triple Flip 3 3Lo Triple Loop 4 FSSp Flying Sit Spin 5 CUSp Change Foot Upright Spin 6 3Lz Triple Lutz 7 3T+3S+SEQ Triple Toeloop+Triple Salchow+SEQ 8 SlSt Straight Line Step Sequence 9 SpSq Spiral Sequence 10 2A+2A+SEQ Double Axel+Double Axel+SEQ 11 3S Triple Salchow 12 CCoSp Change Foot Combination Spin 13 14 15 16 17 18 - Senior Ladies Planned Program Content - Check List As of: 09.12.2008 23:17:17 Carolina KOSTNER ITA SP/OD Remarks 1 3F+3T Triple Flip+Triple Toeloop 2 3Lz Triple Lutz 3 LSp Layback Spin 4 SpSq Spiral Sequence 5 2A Double Axel 6 FSSp Flying Sit Spin 7 CCoSp Change Foot Combination Spin 8 SlSt Straight Line Step Sequence 9 10 FS/FD Remarks 1 3F+3T Triple Flip+Triple Toeloop 2 3Lz+2T+2Lo Triple Lutz+Double Toeloop+Double Loop 3 3F Triple Flip 4 3Lo Triple Loop 5 CCoSp Change Foot Combination Spin 6 2A+3T Double Axel+Triple Toeloop 7 3S Triple Salchow 8 CSSp Change Foot Sit Spin 9 SlSt Straight Line Step Sequence 10 SpSq Spiral Sequence 11 2A Double Axel 12 FSSp Flying Sit Spin 13 14 15 16 17 18 - Senior Ladies Planned Program Content - Check List As of: 09.12.2008 23:17:17 Miki ANDO JPN SP/OD Remarks 1 3Lz+3Lo Triple Lutz+Triple Loop 2 3F Triple Flip 3 2A Double Axel 4 SpSq Spiral Sequence 5 FSSp Flying Sit Spin 6 SlSt Straight Line Step Sequence 7 CCoSp Change Foot Combination Spin 8 LSp Layback Spin 9 10 FS/FD Remarks 1 3T+3Lo Triple Toeloop+Triple Loop 2 3S Triple Salchow 3 3F Triple Flip 4 CCSp Change Foot Camel Spin 5 SpSq Spiral Sequence 6 3Lz+2Lo Triple Lutz+Double Loop 7 3Lz Triple Lutz 8 3Lo Triple Loop 9 2A+2Lo+2Lo Double Axel+Double Loop+Double Loop 10 CCoSp Change Foot Combination Spin 11 SlSt Straight Line Step Sequence 12 FCCoSp Fly. -
125Th Anniversar Y Special Edition
A PUBLICATION OF THE ALBERTA COUNCIL FOR THE UKRAINIAN ARTS UKRAINIAN THE COUNCILFOR ALBERTA THE OF PUBLICATION A 125TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION WINTER 2016/2017 | VOLUME 12 , NUMBER 2 ALBERTA’S UKRAINIAN ARTS AND CULTURE MAGAZINE 125TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION WINTER 2016/2017 Publisher: ACUA, Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts Production Team: Robin McHugh, Dominika Koziak, Deborah Stasiuk, Magdalena Koziak, Elena Scharabun, Khrystyna Kohut Editing: Norma Stasiuk 10 14 20 Contributors: Lyrissa Sheptak, Shawna Dirksen, Lindsay Shapka, Pam Clark, Brian Cherwick, Cameron Slavik, Andrea Kopylech, Robin McHugh, Lesia Szawaluk Art Direction: Kristin Gibson www.kristingibson.ca Advertising: Sheena Kelloway, 26 54 [email protected] ACUA Vitae is published biannually. Views expressed by the writers are not ON THE COVER necessarily those of ACUA. Copyright individual writers. Permission required ORIGINAL PAINTING BY PETER SHOSTAK to re-produce contents. O, dear Lord, how difficult it was to make a living! This is Send inquiries, subscription requests, what drove use to emigrate to Canada. address changes to: [email protected] “The two of us arrived in Hamburg, where an agent put us aboard a Printed in Canada by: large ship for the ocean crossing. We sailed for twenty-two days. The trip was both good and bad. After crossing the ocean, the ship sailed Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts down a river to a big town. It was Montreal.” acknowledges support from the Edmonton Arts Council, the City of Edmonton, WA Crzumer, Recollections About the Life of the First Ukrainian Shevchenkko Foundation, and the Settlers in Canada (Saskatoon, 1978), 13. Government of Canada. -
Ukraine's Party System Evolution: 1990-2017
RAZUMKOV CENTRE UKRAINE’S PARTY SYSTEM EVOLUTION: 1990-2017 The publication is supported by the Ukrainian Office of Konrad Adenauer Foundation 2017 UKRAINE`S PARTY SYSTEM EVOLUTION: 1990-2017 / Edited by Yu.Yakymenko. – Kyiv: Razumkov Сentre, 2017. – p.62 This publication presents an abridged version of the Analytical Report by the Razumkov Centre that examines the emergence and further transformation of Ukraine’s party system in 1990-2017. We have examined key drivers of change at each evolution stage, such as legislation on political parties and elections; political regime; most significant societal cleavages, nature and consequences of their influence; analysed current trends in Ukraine’s party system development. The publication will be useful for everyone interested in post-independence nation-building processes in Ukraine, development of political parties and the party system, experience of political transformations in post-Soviet countries. © Razumkov Centre, 2017 © “Zapovit Publishing House”, 2017 UKRAINE’S PARTY SYSTEM EVOLUTION: 1990-2017 olitical parties are an important institution of a democratic society, P which ensures aggregation and articulation of the interests of various social groups. Interaction among parties in their struggle for power and the exercise of political power by them form a party system. The process of party system formation in Ukraine has been going on for more than 25 years. This publication represents a shortened version of the Razumkov Centre’s report, which examines the fundamental stages of the party system formation in 1990-2017, including intra-party processes, institutional legal and socio-political conditions for their activities and inter-party relations.1 1. STUDY METHODOLOGY The Razumkov Centre’s study uses an approach that combines elements of quantitative and qualitative approaches to the analysis of party system dynamics and takes into account changes of the three following components that define party system and/or affect it. -
Turkey's Evolving Dynamics
Turkey’s Evolving Dynamics CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & Strategic Choices for U.S.-Turkey Relations CSIS INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 1800 K Street | Washington, DC 20006 director Tel: (202) 887-0200 | Fax: (202) 775-3199 Stephen J. Flanagan E-mail: [email protected] | Web: www.csis.org deputy director Samuel J. Brannen principal authors Bulent Aliriza Edward C. Chow Andrew C. Kuchins Haim Malka Julianne Smith contributing authors Ian Lesser Eric Palomaa Alexandros Petersen research coordinator Kaley Levitt March 2009 ISBN 978-0-89206-576-9 Final Report of the CSIS U.S.-Turkey Strategic Initiative CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & Ë|xHSKITCy065769zv*:+:!:+:! Türk-Amerikan Stratejik Girisimi¸ CSIS INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Turkey’s Evolving Dynamics Strategic Choices for U.S.-Turkey Relations DIRECTOR Stephen J. Flanagan DEPUTY DIRECTOR Samuel J. Brannen PRINCIPAL AUTHORS Bulent Aliriza Edward C. Chow Andrew C. Kuchins Haim Malka Julianne Smith CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS Ian Lesser Eric Palomaa Alexandros Petersen RESEARCH COORDINATOR Kaley Levitt March 2009 Final Report of the CSIS U.S.-Turkey Strategic Initiative Türk-Amerikan Stratejik Girisimi¸ About CSIS In an era of ever-changing global opportunities and challenges, the Center for Strategic and Inter- national Studies (CSIS) provides strategic insights and practical policy solutions to decisionmak- ers. CSIS conducts research and analysis and develops policy initiatives that look into the future and anticipate change. Founded by David M. Abshire and Admiral Arleigh Burke at the height of the Cold War, CSIS was dedicated to the simple but urgent goal of finding ways for America to survive as a nation and prosper as a people. Since 1962, CSIS has grown to become one of the world’s preeminent public policy institutions. -
2019-20 U.S. FIGURE SKATING MEDIA GUIDE Nathan Chen 2019 World Champion Vincent Zhou 2019 World Bronze Medalist TABLE of CONTENTS
2019-20 U.S. FIGURE SKATING MEDIA GUIDE Nathan Chen 2019 World champion Vincent Zhou 2019 World bronze medalist TABLE OF CONTENTS U.S. FIGURE SKATING U.S. Ladies Team .....................31 Marketing & Communications Staff ...... 2 U.S. Men’s Team ......................45 Media Credential Guidelines ............ 3 U.S. Pairs Team ......................63 Headquarters ..........................6 U.S. Ice Dance Team .................75 Figure Skating on Television ............ 7 HISTORY & RESULTS Streaming Figure Skating Online . .8 History of Figure Skating ..............88 Figure Skating by the Numbers .........9 World & U.S. Hall of Fame ............ 90 Figure Skating Record Book .......... 94 VIEWERS GUIDE TO FIGURE SKATING Olympic Winter Games ............... 102 Disciplines ............................ 10 World Championships ................108 Ladies & Men’s .........................11 World Junior Championships ......... 128 Pairs .................................12 Four Continents Championships ...... 138 Ice Dance ............................13 Grand Prix Final. .144 INTERNATIONAL JUDGING SYSTEM Junior Grand Prix Final ...............150 Overview .............................14 Skate America ....................... 156 Judges & Officials .....................15 U.S. Championships .................. 165 Program Components .................16 IJS Best Scores ...................... 185 Calculations ..........................17 U.S. Qualifying Best Scores ........... 189 Scales of Values (SOV) ................18 Skate America Best