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For Free Distribution THE CASE OF YURIY LUTSENKO PAGE VOLUNTEER HIGHWAY PATROL PAGE FORMER AMBASSADOR PAGE SHOWS THAT UKRAINE IS GOVERNED MAKES DRIVERS RESPECT THE RULES DIETMAR STÜDEMANN: UKRAINE IS BY PRISON RULES 14 WHERE THE POLICE FAILS 31 ON ITS WAY TO ISOLATION 41 № 4 (27) MARCH 2012 WWW.UKRAINIANWEEK.COM FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION Featuring selected content from The Economist |CONTENTS BRIEFING FOCUS Carte Blanche Where did We Were Iryna Kurylo for the Empire: 6 million talks about A guideline Ukrainians Ukraine’s key to winning a disappear demographic presidential election to? problems and in Russia from 52 what causes Mr. Putin 4 6 them 8 Million POLITICS Demographics The Nation Concrete Justice: Paradoxes: Why Needs Ukraine is governed Western Ukraine Astronauts: by prison rules is in a far better Let’s make position than love! eastern oblasts 10 12 14 NEIGHBOURS Elite-less: A Trade and Demographic New appointments Donor for Russia? Russia’s in the government are more accession to the WTO signals like window-dressing than a renewed effort to draw an overhaul of the elite Ukraine into a Eurasian union 18 24 ECONOMICS SOCIETY Ready, Set, Go! Ukraine Too Many Cars, Too I Park Like an Idiot: is experiencing an Few Buyers: Luxury Volunteer highway automotive boom cars are speeding patrol make drivers even as the world car ahead; lesser respect the rules industry struggles brands are stalled where the police 26 28 fails 31 HISTORY Church Opposition: Privatization Targets Unknown Eastern Metropolitan Sofroniy Culture: The party Ukraine: What Dmytruk talks about the in power has its eye happened to the ethnic intrigue surrounding the on museums and Ukrainian territories of election of the Primate and centers of cultural the 1930s the role of the Orthodox heritage Church in Ukraine 34 36 38 THE AMBASSADOR CULTURE & ARTS Dietmar Stüdemann, former Vadym Krasnookyi of Mad Heads XL German Ambassador to Ukraine, talks about trends in music, gigs in small talks about what it takes to have towns and the Ukrainian language as an a democratic government in a element of national security country and Ukraine’s course towards isolation 41 42 NAVIGATOR Primitive and Dull. Hit Song? Deep into the Past:The secret The role of social music in places of the Cold Ravine Ukraine as seen by Sashko and underground mazes of Polozhynsky from the band Cossack Hetmans Tartak 45 48 international monthly edition The Ukrainian Week № 4 (27) March 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: ТОV SKIMP, TOV ART STUDIYA DRUKU; vul. Boryspilska 15, Kyiv Serhiy Lytvynenko, Editor-in-Chief, The Ukrainian Week Ordering number: 187-12. Print run: 15,000 Natalia Romanec, Shaun Williams, Editors; Sent to print on 12 March 2012 Anna Korbut, Translator Free distribution № 4 (27) MARCH 2012|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|3 BRIEFING| 25 February 27 February 29 February A rally against the Former Minister of the The US Embassy opens in president titled “The Interior, Yuriy Lutsenko, a new building in Kyiv Funeral of Lost Oppor- is sentenced to 4 years tunities” is held in Lviv in jail and the confisca- tion of property QUOTES OLEKSIY KOSTUSIEV prevents eavesdropping During his visit to Georgia, the Odesa Mayor excludes Carte Blanche for the Empire representatives of disloyal mass media, such as 1+1 TV chan- nel and Dumskaya. n March 4, 2012, Vladimir Putin net, from the won the presidential election in delegation. the first round with 63.6% of the Ovote, a victory that was in the making for the last 12 years. The Central Electoral Committee refused to register both Grigoriy Yavlinski, a liberal politi- BERTRAND DELANOË cian, which resulted in his supporters backpedals the Russian staying at home, although they could have World “eroded” Putin’s victorious outcome, and The Mayor of Paris op- radical political activist Alexei Navalny poses the construc- who, as a candidate, could have gained tion of the Russian quite extensive coverage in the central me- Orthodox spiritual dia and most important of all, would have and cultural center at a spot listed as shown the true share of uncompromising, world heritage by but non-Communist opponents of Putin UNESCO. among the voters. Most of the total 96,000 polling stations were equipped with web-cameras for the real-time broadcasting of the election pro- SERHIY VOVK cess on the Internet. Several instances of will face a trial ballot stuffing, recorded by observers, would The Supreme Court surely have caused a scandal anywhere in embarks on a case against the judge Europe. But in the post-soviet reality, the who ruled the verdict fact that the cameras had been installed and against Yuriy Lut- the violations had been recorded allowed senko. In 2009, Mr. Stanislav Gavorukhin, a Russian film direc- Vovk faced criminal tor and head of Putin’s campaign staff, to de- charges for illegiti- scribe the election as “the most honest elec- mate verdicts. tion in Russian history” while some of Pu- tin’s campaign staff even referred to it as VLADIMIR PUTIN “the most honest election in the world”. This was despite numerous reports of elec- is reinforcing the tion fraud mechanisms known as “carou- Russian World sels” or multiple voting by well-organized Mr. Putin calls on groups of voters travelling from one polling than the absentee ballots normally issued increasing Russian station to another. Participation in the for such situations. cultural expansion, groups was proposed for payment through A reporter from Gazeta.ru, an online publi- especially in FSU countries and Cen- advertisements – largely made up of stu- cation, which took part in tracking and tral Europe. dents. Others were organized by the direc- stopping people involved in the “carousel” tors of large enterprises – made up of their scheme, described the technology they staff. Quite often, the groups voted on the used. A girl who paid the students for vot- basis of unauthorized certificates rather ing for the “right” candidate told observers The month 6 March 1918 9 March 1814 10 March 1787 in history The Central Council launches Taras Shevchenko, one of UstymK armaliuk, the leader the administrative reform, the greatest Ukrainian poets, of the peasants’ struggle dividing the Ukrainian People’s is born against serfdom in Podillia Republic into 32 oblasts (1813-1835), is born (provinces) 4|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|№ 4 (27) MARCH 2012 |BRIEFING 4 March 5 March 9 March Volodymyr Klitschko wins OSCE representatives are not The UN Committee lifts his 50th victory with a allowed to see Yulia Tymosh- a previously issued knockout in a fight against enko. The prison administra- ban against Ukraine to French boxer Jean-Marc tion does not even let them to trade in greenhouse Mormeck speak to her on the phone gas emission quotas NUMBERS USD 5mn is the price for a deputy seat at the Kyiv City Council, according to Carte Blanche for the Empire Oleksandra Kuzhel. She says a seat at the Verkhovna Rada costs the same not particularly popular. In Moscow, for in- stance, the “national leader” failed to gain half of the vote. Taxpayers will spend nearly Both Putin’s campaign staff and Putin him- UAH 100,000 per year self essentially declared their victory to be a for the rental of Viktor victory over the “Forces of Evil”, which, ac- Yanukovych’s office at his cording to them, are trying to ruin Russia. Mezhyhiria residence, based on “We have succeeded in saving ourselves information from the Presidential from political provocations that pursue just Administration one goal: to destroy Russian statehood and usurp power, they will not succeed!”, Putin said at a rally at Manezhnaya Ploshchad. Opposition members were portrayed as 86.2% of experts people hired by the cunning West. Hysteria have encountered limited access to was further fuelled by the video clips regu- information at Ukrainian archives, larly shown on TV, allegedly advertising the claims the Center for Insurgent Movements Research broadcasting of several documentaries about “the real face” of the opposition. Putin also played on what was called “class hatred” during the Soviet era. It was not Based on a survey by the for nothing that the first thing Putin took Research&Branding Group, the number of Ukrainians who view part in right after the closing of polling Ukraine’s relations with Russia as stations, was a TV satellite linkup with the tense and bad grew workers of an Ural train car plant. Given the intensification of leftist, populist and 2.5-fold anti-Western rhetoric from Mr. Putin, over the past year, from 17% in within the country, the old-new Russian August 2011 to 41% in February 2012 president is going to rely ever more on vot- ers who share his vision of Russia as a “be- sieged fortress”. Foreign policy based on the values of the 37.6% “greatness of Russia” is also likely to inten- of Ukrainians belong to the so-called sify. On the eve of the election, Vladimir “electoral swamp” as they prepare Putin told journalists where he would start to vote against all or ignore the upcoming parliamentary election building this greatness: “The CIS is an ab- according to the SOCIS centre for that she was repaying money she had bor- solute priority for us.” In actual fact, he was sociological and marketing survey rowed from her girlfriends. Meanwhile, not asked about this, but about where he these girlfriends simply vanished.
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