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What Future for Ukraine?
OÂRODEK STUDIÓW WSCHODNICH Centre for Eastern Studies Dokàd zmierzasz, Ukraino? What Future for Ukraine? Anna Górska Warszawa, czerwiec 2005 / Warsaw, June 2005 © Copyright by OÊrodek Studiów Wschodnich © Copyright by Centre for Eastern Studies Redaktor serii / Series editor Anna ¸abuszewska Opracowanie graficzne / Graphic design Dorota Nowacka T∏umaczenie / Translation Izabela Zygmunt Wydawca / Publisher OÊrodek Studiów Wschodnich Centre for Eastern Studies ul. Koszykowa 6a Warszawa / Warsaw, Poland tel./phone + 48 /22/ 525 80 00 fax: +48 /22/ 525 80 40 Spis treÊci / Contents Dokàd zmierzasz, Ukraino? / 5 I. Trudny okres przejmowania w∏adzy / 6 II. Paƒstwo demokratyczne / 9 III. Paƒstwo prawa / 11 IV. Gospodarka rynkowa / 14 V. Czy Zachód mo˝e wspomóc Ukrain´ / 16 Za∏àcznik I / 18 Za∏àcznik II / 24 What Future for Ukraine? / 27 I. Difficult Period of the Transfer of Power / 28 II. A Democratic State / 31 III. A State of Law / 34 IV. Market Economy / 37 V. Can the West help Ukraine / 38 Appendix No 1 / 41 Appendix No 2 / 47 Dokàd zmierzasz, Ukraino? Min´∏o sto dni od inauguracji prezydenta Ukrainy Wiktora Juszczenki i po- wo∏ania nowego rzàdu z Julià Tymoszenko na czele, co tradycyjnie sk∏a- nia do pierwszych podsumowaƒ i oceny polityki nowych w∏adz. W przy- padku Ukrainy jest to szczególnie interesujàce. Zmiana w∏adzy nastàpi∏a w du˝ej mierze w wyniku antysystemowego protestu spo∏ecznego, okre- Êlanego jako pomaraƒczowa rewolucja1. W zasadzie Majdan nie formu- ∏owa∏ pozytywnych hase∏ programowych, a jedynie wyraziÊcie okreÊla∏, czego spo∏eczeƒstwo ju˝ nie akceptuje – samowoli w∏adzy, korupcji, bie- dy, k∏amstwa w najwy˝szych gabinetach i mediach, przedmiotowego traktowania spo∏eczeƒstwa, o którym w∏adza przypomina sobie jedynie w kampaniach wyborczych, ale i tak nie respektuje woli wyborców. -
In the Spotlight 11/11/2013
ISSUE 37 (156) IN THE SPOTLIGHT 11/11/2013 © Gorshenin Institute November 2013 All rights reserved ISSUE 37 (156) IN THE SPOTLIGHT 11/11/2013 CONTENT 1. Top news…page 4 2. International political…page 4 Ukraine-EU…page 4 European politicians do not rule out signing of association deal with Ukraine might be delayed Ukraine should fulfill EU requirements by 13 November – EU Parliament mission Ukrainian pro-presidential party questions benefits of country's European integration Ukrainian Foreign Ministry says draft declaration for Vilnius summit ready Ukraine may finish first stage of plan for simplifying visa regime with EU by Vilnius summit Ukraine-Russia…page 7 Ukraine starts paying off debt to Gazprom Ukraine might reconsider terms of contract with Russia on gas transit to Europe Russia to consider possibility of Ukraine's signing some Customs Union agreements Ukraine-IMF…page 8 IMF delays decision on Ukraine until December EU taking no part in Ukraine-IMF talks – media 3. Domestic political…page 9 Ukrainian authorities…page 9 Two bills required for EU bid pass first reading in parliament President endorses law which might prevent Klitschko from running for post President reshuffles governors in Odessa, Ivano-Frankivsk regions Ukrainians of call-up age now free to go abroad Ukrainian opposition…page 10 Ukrainian authorities begin new legal process against Tymoshenko Parliament sets up ad hoc group to work out law on Tymoshenko's treatment "Public debates" on Tymoshenko's treatment initiated in regions – media 2 © Gorshenin Institute November 2013 All rights reserved ISSUE 37 (156) IN THE SPOTLIGHT 11/11/2013 Opposition demands Yanukovych report on negotiations with Putin Court to consider Tymoshenko's UESU case on 6 December 4. -
Competing Nationalisms, Euromaidan, and the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
bs_bs_banner Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism: Vol. 15, No. 1, 2015 Competing Nationalisms, Euromaidan, and the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict Taras Kuzio* Senior Research Associate, Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta Senior Research Fellow, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University Introduction Although Ukraine is a regionally diverse country, it had succeeded in peacefully managing inter-ethnic and linguistic tension between competing nationalisms and identities. However, the rise of the openly pro-Russian Party of Regions political machine after the Orange Revolution, whose leader came to power in 2010, and the evolution of Vladimir Putin’s regime from proponent of statist to ethnic national- ism, heightened Ukrainian inter-regional and inter-state conflict. Viktor Yanukovych’s policies provoked popular protests that became the Euromaidan. His unwillingness to compromise and his fear of leaving office led to violence and the breakdown of state structures, opening the way for Russia’s interventions in the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. This article investigates the sources for the violence during and after the Euromaidan and Russia’s interventions. It argues that domes- tic and foreign factors served to change the dynamics of Russian speakers in Ukraine from one of passivity in the late 1980s through to the 2004 Orange Revolution; low-level mobilization from 2005 to 2013; and high-level -
Faltering Fightback: Zelensky's Piecemeal Campaign Against Ukraine's Oligarchs – European Council on Foreign Relations
POLICY BRIEF FALTERING FIGHTBACK: ZELENSKY’S PIECEMEAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST UKRAINE’S OLIGARCHS Andrew Wilson July 2021 SUMMARY Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has declared a “fightback” against oligarchs. Zelensky is motivated by worries about falling poll ratings, pressure from Russia, and a strong desire for good relations with the Biden administration. The fightback campaign has resulted in action against some oligarchs but, overall, it is incomplete. The government still needs to address reform issues in other areas, especially the judiciary, and it has an on-off relationship with the IMF because of the latter’s insistence on conditionality. The campaign has encouraged Zelensky’s tendency towards governance through informal means. This has allowed him to act speedily – but it risks letting oligarchic influence return and enabling easy reversal of reforms in the future. Introduction On 12 March this year, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, released a short appeal on YouTube called “Ukraine fights back”. He declared that he was preparing to take on those who have been undermining the country – those who have exploited Ukraine’s weaknesses in particular, including its frail rule of law. He attacked “the oligarchic class” – and named names: “[Viktor] Medvedchuk, [Ihor] Kolomoisky, [Petro] Poroshenko, [Rinat] Akhmetov, [Viktor] Pinchuk, [Dmitry] Firtash”. He proceeded to address the oligarchs directly, asking, “Are you ready to work legally and transparently?” The president went on, “Or do you want to continue to create monopolies, control the media, influence deputies and other civil servants? The first is welcome. The second ends.” Ukrainians have heard this kind of talk before. Zelensky’s predecessor, Poroshenko, also made ‘de- oligarchisation’ a policy pledge. -
Police Reform in Ukraine Since the Euromaidan: Police Reform in Transition and Institutional Crisis
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects 2-2019 Police Reform in Ukraine Since the Euromaidan: Police Reform in Transition and Institutional Crisis Nicholas Pehlman The Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3073 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] Police Reform in Ukraine Since the Euromaidan: Police Reform in Transition and Institutional Crisis by Nicholas Pehlman A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Political Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The City University of New York 2019 © Copyright by Nick Pehlman, 2018 All rights reserved ii Police Reform in Ukraine Since the Euromaidan: Police Reform in Transition and Institutional Crisis by Nicholas Pehlman This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Political Science in satisfaction of the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Date Mark Ungar Chair of Examining Committee Date Alyson Cole Executive Officer Supervisory Committee: Julie George Jillian Schwedler THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK iii ABSTRACT Police Reform in Ukraine Since the Euromaidan: Police Reform in Transition and Institutional -
RFE/RL RFERL Media Matters Vol
RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC ________________________________________________________ RFE/RL RFERL Media Matters Vol. 3, No. 8, 28 February 2003 http://www.rferl.org/mm/ END NOTE IS UKRAINE ANY NEARER THE TRUTH ON GONGADZE'S KILLING? By Taras Kuzio Last July, Svyatoslav Piskun replaced Mykhaylo Potebenko as Ukraine's prosecutor-general, and one of the issues he vowed to resolve within six months was the death of Ukrainian journalist Heorhiy Gongadze. Gongadze was abducted by unknown individuals on 16 September 2000, and his headless corpse was discovered in a Kyiv Oblast forest in early November 2000. More than six months later, the case remains unresolved. Two weeks after Gongadze's body was discovered, Socialist leader Oleksandr Moroz announced in the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) that a portion of the tapes allegedly made illicitly in President Leonid Kuchma's office by former presidential security guard Mykola Melnychenko included a conversation about Gongadze. This was only one fragment of the hundreds of hours of tapes apparently made in 1999-2000 by Melnychenko, who defected to the United States in April 2001. The Ukrainian government has denied that the tapes are authentic. In the taped conversation, Kuchma is apparently heard ordering then-Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko to deal with Gongadze by deportation and violence. Parts of the tapes have been authenticated by a U.S. company specializing in such recordings. The FBI has also stated that a section pertaining to possible arms sales to Iraq is also authentic. Because of the interconnection of the "Kuchmagate" tapes scandal and the Gongadze case, numerous conspiracy theories have emerged. -
Security & Defence
NATIONAL SECURITY & DEFENCE π 4-5 (133-134) CONTENT EU-UKRAINE-RUSSIA RELATIONS: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS 2012 (Аnalytical report by the Razumkov Centre) .............................................2 Founded and published by: CHAPTER 1. EU-UKRAINE-RUSSIA: POLITICAL DIMENSION OF RELATIONS ....4 Annex. STATE OF EXECUTION OF THE ACTION PLAN ON VISA LIBERALISATION (APVL) PROVIDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION TO UKRAINE...............11 CHAPTER 2. ECONOMIC RELATIONS IN THE EU-UKRAINE-RUSSIA UKRAINIAN CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC & POLITICAL STUDIES TRIANGLE ..........................................................................19 NAMED AFTER OLEXANDER RAZUMKOV CHAPTER 3. EU-UKRAINE-RUSSIA ENERGY “TRIANGLE”: DEPENDENCY, INTERESTS, CONTRADICTIONS ..................30 Director General Anatoliy Rachok CHAPTER 4. SECURITY DIMENSION OF EU-UKRAINE-RUSSIA Editor Valeriya Klymenko Layout and design Oleksandr Shaptala RELATIONS ........................................................................37 Technical support Volodymyr Kekukh CHAPTER 5. HUMANITARIAN DIMENSION OF EU-UKRAINE-RUSSIA RELATIONS ........................................................................45 This journal is registered with the State Committee of Ukraine for Information Policy, CHAPTER 6. CONCLUSIONS AND PROPOSALS ......................................51 registration certificate KB №4122 EU-UKRAINE-RUSSIA: PROBLEMS, ACHIEVEMENTS, PROSPECTS (Interviews, Ukrainian government officials and politicians) ..................55 Published in Ukrainian and English Oleh BILORUS, Oleksandr YEFREMOV, -
Kyiv, Ukraine: the City of Domes and Demons from the Collapse Of
Roman Adrian Roman Cybriwsky Kyiv, Ukraine is a pioneering case study of urban change from socialism to the hard edge of a market economy after the Soviet collapse. It looks in detail at the changing social geography of the city, and on critical problems such as corruption, social inequality, sex tourism, and destruction of historical ambience by greedy developers. The book is based on fieldwork and an insider’s knowledge of the city, and is engagingly written. Roman Adrian Cybriwsky is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA, and former Ukraine Kyiv, Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. He divides his time between Philadelphia, Kyiv, and Tokyo, about which he has also written books. “Roman Cybriwsky knows this city and its people, speaks their language, feels their frustrations with its opportunist and corrupt post-Soviet public figures Roman Adrian Cybriwsky who have bankrupted this land morally and economically. He has produced a rich urban ethnography stoked by embers of authorial rage.” — John Charles Western, Professor of Geography, Syracuse University, USA “Kyiv, Ukraine is an interdisciplinary tour de force: a scholarly book that is Kyiv, Ukraine also an anthropological and sociological study of Kyivites, a guide to Kyiv and its society, politics, and culture, and a journalistic investigation of the city’s darkest secrets. At this time of crisis in Ukraine, the book is indispensable.” — Alexander Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, USA The City of Domes and Demons “Filled with personal observations by a highly trained and intelligent urbanist, Kyiv, Ukraine is a beautiful and powerful work that reveals from the Collapse of Socialism profound truths about a city we all need to know better.” — Blair A. -
Symbolic Representations of Maidan in the Ukrainian and Polish Press: Comparative Analysis
Symbolic Representations of Maidan in the Ukrainian and Polish Press: Comparative Analysis ZHANNA BEZPIATCHUK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV-MOHYLA ACADEMY Abstract: This research proposes the comparative analysis of the symbolic representations of Maidan in the Ukrainian and Polish media outlets that comprise tabloid and quality publications. Different types of symbols are identified in the news analysis, reports, and feature stories on Maidan. The typology of symbols is worked out on the basis of the Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms and Langer’s symbol theory. The coded types of symbols include symbol-products, symbol-concepts, symbol-slogans, symbol-situations, symbol-processes, and symbolic actions. With the help of the content analysis it is found that some most visible symbols in the media coverage of Maidan coincide in the Ukrainian and Polish print media. These are the symbol-concept “barricade”, the symbol-concept “Berkut”, and the symbol-process “dispersal of Maidan”. However, there are symbols that have either quantitative or qualitative significance in the Polish press and are absent in the Ukrainian media at all, namely, the symbol-product “blood”, the symbol-concept “solidarity”, the symbol-concept “freedom”. Keywords: symbolic representation, Maidan, tabloid, quality press, symbol-product, symbol-concept, symbol-slogan, symbol-situation, symbol-process. Symbolic Representations of Maidan in the Ukrainian and Polish Press: Comparative Analysis 59 Introduction diagnose the points of divergence in mean- praxis is, according to Cassirer, “unity and uni- historical circle it looks more like an alterna- ings of the same symbols in different cultural versality” (Recki, 2004, pp. 156–157). Moreover, tive, especially in its reconsidered, modernized The proposed research aims to descend into contexts.Maidan is a critical case to test what “the symbol itself has a liberating (…), ethical versions that could combine post-structural the meanings that the media of Ukraine and symbolsthe Polish and Ukrainian media “think power” (Skidelsky, 2011, p. -
Occupied Donbas. Elections
#6 (100) June 2016 Two years of Petro Poroshenko's Clean-up of Ukraine's banking Kazimir Malevich presidency sector: painful, efficient and avant-garde in the 1920s' Kyiv OCCUPIED DONBAS. ELECTIONS WWW.UKRAINIANWEEK.COM Featuring selected content from The Economist FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION CONTENTS | 3 BRIEFING NEIGHBOURS 5 Black books and bought elections: 32 Ivanna Klympush-Tsyntsadze: “We The Party of Regions’ inventory of do not accept arguments of countries bribes and legitimacy of its victory that try to raise the issue of lifting in 2012 election sanctions against Russia” POLITICS Vice-Premier for European and Euro- 7 The fine art of compromise: Atlantic Integration on her priorities The president’s powers after two in office years in office 36 Misplaced charity: What hampers 10 Bouillabaisse de president: the efficiency of international aid Who makes decisions in Petro 38 Philippe de Lara on what the Russia Poroshenko’s circle sanctions resolution of the Senate 12 Andriy Levus: “Ukraine should expect tells about French politicians another radical change“ SOCIETY Head of the VR Public Safety 40 The new left front: How Russia is Subcommittee on how government developing agents of influence in offices are changing and chances of Ukraine through a “reset” with leftist the new political class parties and organizations FOCUS 42 Crimean Muslims at the crossroads: 16 Through the looking glass: The crazy What shape will Islam take world of Minsk How Ukrainian in occupied Crimea? politicians see the likelihood of CULTURE & ART elections in -
Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine 16 February to 15 May 2015
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine 16 February to 15 May 2015 CONTENTS I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 II. RIGHTS TO LIFE, LIBERTY, SECURITY AND PHYSICAL INTEGRITY 6 A. Armed hostilities 6 B. Casualties 7 C. Alleged summary, extrajudicial or arbitrary executions 8 D. Illegal and arbitrary detention, and torture and ill-treatment 9 E. Trafficking in persons 13 III. FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS 14 A. Freedom of movement 14 B. Freedom of expression 15 C. Freedom of peaceful assembly 17 IV. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS 18 A. Right to an adequate standard of living 18 B. Right to social protection 19 C. Right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health 21 V. ACCOUNTABILITY AND ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE 21 A. Accountability for human rights violations in the east 22 B. Accountability for human rights violations committed during the Maidan protests 23 C. Accountability for the 2 May violence in Odesa 25 D. Investigation into Rymarska case 26 E. Administration of justice 27 VI. LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS AND INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS 29 VII. HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC OF CRIMEA 33 VIII. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 36 2 I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. This is the tenth report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the situation of human rights in Ukraine, based on the work of the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU)1. It covers the period from 16 February to 15 May 2015. 2. The reporting period -
For Free Distribution
FORECAST FOR THE NEW CRIMEA AND JAN TOMBINSKI GOVERNMENT AND PARLIAMENT THE DONBAS IN 2015 ON REFORMS FOR UKRAINE № 16 (82) DECEMBER 2014 WWW.UKRAINIANWEEK.COM Featuring selected content from The Economist FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION |CONTENTS POLITICS CRIMEA Post-Revolution Hangover: The Shattered Showcase of the Russian World: Who will win the war Russian occupation spells decline of Crimea’s real economy, of each against all impoverishment and unemployment in Ukrainian politics? 27 The Unfree Peninsula: 4 The prospects DiversificationP ains: External factors will keep pushing of Crimea in 2015 Ukraine’s economy to overcome dependence on unreliable export-oriented industries and markets 30 8 The Nerve of Annexation: Fueling Energy Independence: Russia’s Psychological portrait energy war and devaluation of the of Crimeans during the Maidan hryvnia will change the way Ukrainians and before the annexation use gas and electricity 32 10 Crimea's Multitude of Nations: On Another Front: Ethnic diversity of the peninsula Ukraine needs energy reform to fix the economy and weaken Russia’s grip 35 Crimean Anchor: The rationale behind transferring 11 the peninsula to the Ukrainian EU Ambassador to Ukraine SSR in 1954 Jan Tombinski on vital reforms for the country 38 12 NEIGHBOURS Ex-President of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga: SECURITY “The most important element for Andriy Levus, ex-Deputy Chief the future of Ukraine is what Ukrainians of the SBU, on post-Maidan do themselves” transformations in Ukraine’s security service, Russian agents 42 and Ukrainian