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The Ukrainian Weekly, 2019 INSIDE: l Chicago exhibit honors the Heavenly Hundred – page 4 l Review: Selected poems by Serhiy Zhadan – page 9 l Ukrainian Pro Sports Update: Soccer – page 17 THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXXVII No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2019 $2.00 Russian court orders Pavlo Hryb Uncertainty gives diplomats and investors to be imprisoned for six years jitters about presidential election in Ukraine Father laments ‘death sentence’ RFE/RL Ukraine.” In a statement, it also urged Russian authorities to provide Mr. Hryb A Russian court has sentenced ailing with medical treatment. 20-year-old Ukrainian Pavlo Hryb to six Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo Klimkin years in prison after convicting him of “pro- blasted Russia as Ukraine’s “invader” and moting terrorism,” a charge he contends an “aggressor state” that does not know the was fabricated by the Federal Security concepts of “mercy, humanity, and dignity.” Service (FSB). “The Russian pseudo-judiciary has sen- Mr. Hryb’s father, Ihor, condemned the tenced the seriously ill Pavlo Hryb to six March 22 verdict as a “death sentence for years in prison,” Mr. Klimkin tweeted. “I Pavlo... who needs an urgent medical oper- urge the civilized world to put pressure on ation in order to live.” the Russian Federation to ensure his “If there is no urgent action, we will see speedy release.” his death within a month,” Ihor Hryb told [Editor’s note: The U.S. State Current Time, a Russian-language network Department’s deputy spokesperson Robert led by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA. J. Palladino tweeted on March 23: “We con- Ukraine denounced the March 22 ver- demn Russia’s conviction and 6-year sen- dict by the North Caucasus Regional Court, tence of Ukrainian Pavlo Hryb. He was tar- calling it “unlawful,” and Pavlo Hryb geted for opposing #Russian aggression announced a hunger strike to protest the against Ukraine. We are concerned about ruling as well as his treatment in jail and his health. Russia should immediately “everything that is happening.” return him to Ukraine, and vacate his con- Mr. Hryb said he had been “denied medi- viction. #FreeHryb”] cal treatment” while in custody and that by Mark Raczkiewycz At stake is the completion of a $3.9 bil- Ukraine’s human rights ombudswoman ‘Bandits and murderers’ lion International Monetary Fund lending Lyudmyla Denisova had been prevented KYIV – As Ukrainians head to the polls program as well as hundreds of millions of On March 21, in his final statement at on March 31 to elect their sixth post-Soviet dollars in supplemental loan guarantees from visiting him. the trial in the southern Russian city of The Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry president, questions still linger about the from the West. Millions of dollars of foreign Rostov-on-Don, Mr. Hryb asserted that the commitment the three front-runners have technical assistance from the United States, demanded the “immediate reversal of the charge against him was fabricated by the unlawful sentence” and called for Mr. to continue reforming the country to real- Hryb’s “release and unimpeded return to (Continued on page 19) ize its true economic potential. (Continued on page 16) UAV and Ukraine’s Embassy in U.S. co-host visit by minister of veterans affairs by Myron Melnyk onto a path towards NATO. Having engaged in Ukraine-NATO security cooperation proj- NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Ukrainian ects, Minister Friz has headed Ukraine’s del- American Veterans, working with Ukraine’s egation to NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly. Embassy in Washington, helped organize She was accompanied on her U.S. visit, an official U.S. fact-finding visit on February which spanned three packed days in 27 through March 4 for Iryna Friz, Washington and three in Connecticut, by Ukraine’s newly minted minister of veter- Col. Oksana Havryliuk, herself a veteran of ans affairs. As the low-grade war in Ukraine the anti-terrorist operation in Ukraine’s continues with no end in sight, more and east. more veterans there find themselves in Challenges and plans need of medical and support services. Confirmed in November 2018 by Ukraine’s Ukraine’s new VA Ministry faces unique Verkhovna Rada, Minister Friz now faces challenges. Some 22 current government the daunting challenge of creating a new organizations currently engage with veter- ministry from scratch and helping those ans in some manner. These span three min- who bravely served Ukraine in its struggle istries: Defense, Social Policy and Health. The against Russian aggression. new Ministry of Veterans Affairs is now the Minister Friz was elected to Ukraine’s fourth to handle issues related to veterans. Parliament in 2014 as a member of the How and which organizations will tran- Petro Poroshenko Bloc. She has served as sition to the new structure? How will peo- At the VA Hospital in Washington (from left) are: UAV Post 26 (District of Columbia) communications director for the ple be transferred and new hires brought Commander Roman Fontana, Ukraine’s Military Attaché Col. Andrii Ordynovych, Presidential Administration. She has worked Post 33 (New Haven) Commander Carl Harvey, Veterans Affairs Minister Iryna Friz, on? And, most importantly, how will bud- on legislation to enhance Ukraine’s special Col. Oksana Havryliuk, Welfare Officer Myron Melnyk and Ukrainian Military forces operations and to reorient Ukraine Attaché Volodymyr Humeniuk. (Continued on page 11) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2019 No. 13 ANALYSIS Ukrainian space sector UWC cites disinformation threat did not give any indication of the size of the payment. An article published on the BBC Disinformation is one of the most seri- website in May 2018 alleged that a payment anticipates big changes ous threats to a free democratic electoral of $400,000 was made to Donald Trump’s serve as a useful example of private initiative process, noted Eugene Czolij, the head of former lawyer Michael Cohen to extend a by Alla Hurska Ukraine World Congress International Eurasia Daily Monitor in an industry that has traditionally been seen meeting between the U.S. and Ukrainian in Ukraine as the prerogative of the state. Observation Mission to Ukraine’s 2019 presidents. The allegation related to a meet- On February 27, during a meeting Firefly Aerospace now includes a whole com- Elections (UWC Mission) and former presi- ing at the White House in June 2017. Mr. between Ukraine’s ambassador to the United plex of enterprises consisting of up-to-date dent of the UWC. He held a press confer- Poroshenko, who is seeking reelection in States, Valeriy Chaly, and the head of the joint R&D centers (with the U.S.). Mr. Polyakov ence at Ukraine Crisis Media Center in Kyiv the March 31 presidential election, sued the National Aeronautical Space Administration also noted that a launch of one rocket (capa- on March 26 to present the UWC’s interim BBC over the report, which also featured in (NASA), James Bridenstine, the U.S. side ble of delivering cargoes of one to four tons) report. “The disinformation campaign is a news bulletin in Britain. (RFE/RL, with expressed interest in including Ukrainian will cost $8 million to $15 million, which is not confined to the Ukrainian information reporting by the BBC) companies in projects pertaining to lunar significantly less than currently paid by the sphere and is widespread throughout the exploration (Tvzvezda.ru, February 28). U.S. ($60 million for a Falcon launch) world with the goal of disillusioning Crimean Tatars detained after searches Reportedly, a joint intergovernmental (Rosbalt, February 13; Ain.ua, February 16). Ukraine’s allies,” said Mr. Czolij. Speaking Russian authorities who control agreement based on the already existing Another interesting initiative was voiced about the UWC mission, he emphasized Ukraine’s Crimea region say they have Ukrainian-U.S. working group on space, on February 5, by the founder of the com- that it was unique in its composition and detained 20 Crimean Tatars following established in 2016, could be prepared. So pany Space Logistics Ukraine, Dmytro scope, consisting mostly of Ukrainian- house-to-house searches, in what rights far, the main result stemming from this Leheza, who announced a decision to build speaking observers. It includes long-term groups call a persistent clampdown on a three-year-old initiative has been the Antares the first private spaceport in Ukraine. observers (LTOs), who carry media moni- minority group whose members mostly project Orbital Launch Vehicle, which is According to Mr. Leheza, nicknamed the toring outside of Ukraine, and short-term opposed Moscow’s takeover of the peninsu- being currently used for commercial purpos- “Ukrainian Elon Musk” (Ukrinform.ua, observers (STOs), who monitor the elector- la in 2014. Russia’s Federal Security Service February 6), in order to achieve real prog- es. Importantly, the development of its first al process both in Ukraine and at Ukrainian (FSB) said on March 27 that the detainees ress in the domestic space industry, stage core was co-performed by the diplomatic missions abroad. The UWC mis- were suspected of being members of the Yuzhnoye Design Office (Yuzhmash), famous Ukraine needs to introduce specific legisla- sion will be issuing two more reports: its banned Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic group. for developing and producing the Zenit fami- tion, enabling private enterprises to work preliminary observations on the day after Crimean Solidarity, a human rights group ly of rockets (Topwar.ru, February 28). in the state’s space programs. To popular- the March 31 presidential election and its that has members in Crimea and other State-owned Yuzhmash remains the ize his company’s space projects, Mr.
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