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The Ukrainian Weekly, 2020 INSIDE: l Remembering the Crimean Tatars’ Genocide – page 3 l Our community copes with COVID-19 – page 4 l The generation of 1919: three scholars – page 9 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXXVIII No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 24, 2020 $2.00 NEWS ANALYSIS World remembers Genocide Assessing a year of Zelenskyy and foreign policy developments of Crimean Tatar people Presidential Office The Crimean Tatar flag with a black mourning ribbon is displayed in Kyiv. by Roman Tymotsko for raising the Crimean Tatar flag with a Presidential Office of Ukraine mourning ribbon and urged the public to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during his press conference on May 20. KYIV – On May 18, Ukraine remembered light candles in their windows on the night the victims of Joseph Stalin’s genocidal of May 17-18. by Bohdan Nahaylo Ukraine made no mistake in making the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people President Volodymyr Zelenskyy European choice. After all, a friend in need from Crimea. On that day in 1944, the first addressed the nation on May 18. “We believe KYIV – While attention in Ukraine has is a friend indeed,” President Zelenskyy trainloads of Crimean Tatars were forcibly that the day will surely come when Crimea remained focused on coping with the coro- emphasized. He elaborated that the EU resettled from the peninsula to Central Asia will return to Ukraine,” he said. “Crimean navirus pandemic and meeting the condi- funds will also help guarantee Ukraine’s and Siberia. In total, about 200,000 people Tatars and Ukrainians will return to their tions to secure further financial support macroeconomic stability. were deported via cattle cars by the Stalin native homes, gather at the same table to say from the International Monetary Fund and On May 20, the Ukrainian president con- regime. Thousands died en route, and tens of others, there have also been some notable vened a press conference to discuss his thousands more died due to the harsh condi- developments in the foreign policy sphere. first year in office. It turned out that the tions of exile. together:On the “Bizimnight of ve May siziñ 17-18, azatlığıñız a light içün! projec For- The occasion of the first anniversary of journalists were more interested in his per- In 2015, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine yourtion ofand Crimean our freedom!” Tatar and Ukrainian flags Volodymyr Zelenskyy assuming office as formance on the domestic front than in the had declared May 18 as the annual Day of was placed on the Presidential Office build- president has also encouraged both the foreign policy sphere. The obvious excep- Remembrance of the Victims of the Crimean ing, symbolizing the solidarity between the president and the press to reflect on his tion, as could be expected, was the impasse Tatar Genocide. Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar peoples. performance in the area of external rela- The Mejlis, the highest executive-repre- (Continued on page 14) tions – and especially those concerning sentative body of the Crimean Tatars, called (Continued on page 15) Russia. The president has provided his own thoughts on what has been achieved and where things stand. CORONAVIRUS UPDATE In recent weeks, Ukraine has assumed the revolving chairmanship of the Ukrainian government introduces adaptive lockdown until June 22 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Forum for Security KYIV – The Cabinet of Ministers has one person per 10 square meters of floor “Some 354 persons have fallen ill over Cooperation, and has been preparing for approved a decision introducing an adap- space. the past day. During the entire period of both the EU Eastern Partnership summit in tive coronavirus lockdown until June 22, Beginning on May 25, the government the pandemic, 19,230 people have fallen June and a new meeting in the context of while the second stage of the easing of plans to allow the operation of kindergar- ill, including 1,376 children and 3,757 the Normandy Four format involving the lockdown restrictions will begin on May tens, as well as the operation of subways health-care workers,” Mr. Stepanov leaders of Germany, France, Russia and 22, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys in cities where the epidemiological situa- reported at a briefing on May 20. Ukraine. Shmyhal said at a government meeting on tion is favorable. According to the health minister, 28 Kyiv’s main attention has been focused May 20. Mr. Shmyhal said that the third phase children and 61 health workers contract- on securing critically needed financial As part of the second phase of eased of eased lockdown restrictions would ed COVID-19 over the past day. Ukraine assistance from the International Monetary restrictions, it is planned that public include the start of training activities, the recorded 323 recovered cases and 16 Fund (IMF), the European Union (EU) and transport, and urban and suburban land opening of gyms and fitness centers deaths related to the coronavirus during other donors and creditors. While it awaits transport will be resumed. Authorities (without swimming pools) and the that same period. The largest number of confirmation of the amount of support will permit sports competitions (limited resumption of interregional traffic. Air coronavirus cases over the past day were from the IMF, the European Commission to 100 people and without spectators) travel can also be resumed in June, how- reported in the Chernivtsi region (54), announced last month that it will provide and the operation of hotels (though not ever, this is dependent also on how other Kyiv city (51) and Volyn region (41). 1.2 billion euros to counter the coronavi- hostels). At the same time, the operation countries resume flights. In total, 5,955 people in Ukraine have rus. of restaurants and swimming pools in The number of Ukraine’s COVID-19 recovered and 564 people have died since “This is an unprecedented amount of hotels will continue to be banned. cases grew to 19,230 as of May 20, the start of the pandemic. macro-financial assistance. The EU’s deci- It will also be possible to hold services according to Health Minister Maksym sion is not only a manifestation of solidari- in houses of worship, with a maximum of Stepanov. Source: Ukrinform. ty in difficult times. This is a testimony that 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 24, 2020 No. 21 WINDOW ON EURASIA 2020, intended to be Putin’s triumph, U.S. on suffering of Crimean people weapon, and financing to the separatists, despite mounting evidence to the contrary. The acting U.S. ambassador to Kyiv, It also claims that the referendum in becoming instead his Waterloo Kristina Kvien, has called on Russia to “stop Crimea was legitimate, and has ruled out its legacy of inflicting suffering on the peo- from this, springs the decision to declare handing control back to Ukraine. Mr. by Paul Goble ple of Crimea,” as Ukraine commemorated the epidemic over, when in fact it is still Razumkov said Kyiv would not abandon the victims of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s This year was supposed to be the far from its peak.” efforts to return Crimea to Ukrainian con- mass deportation of Crimean Tatars from Kremlin’s “year of triumph,” one in which The Kremlin feels compelled to do this trol, nor efforts to regain control of separat- their homeland in 1944. The chargé the life rule of Vladimir Putin would be because it wants the referendum that ist-controlled areas of the Luhansk and d’affaires issued a video statement on confirmed, but instead, Liliya Shevtsova would allow Putin to remain in office for Twitter on May 18, which since 2016 has Donetsk regions, also known as the says, 2020 is rapidly becoming his life to take place.But popular anger is been marked in Ukraine as the Day of Donbas. “It is a difficult and slow process, Waterloo – a time when both he and his such that this effort may fail, and no one Commemoration of Victims of the Genocide but at the same time we can take this issue system have sailed into disaster. in the regime seems yet to have asked the of the Crimean Tatars. The Crimean Tatars off the agenda and [cannot quit] trying to All the plans he had only a few months even more profound question Russia will were deported en masse from the Black resolve it in all sorts of ways on various lev- ago must now be “thrown in the trash,” face: “Then what?” Sea peninsula in May 1944, after Stalin els and neither can we lose means of com- the Russian commentator says. The coro- The international environment is yet accused them of collaborating with Nazi munication with the occupied territories – navirus pandemic has proved fatal “not another place where the hopes Mr. Putin Germany. Seventy years later, in March both the Donbas and Crimea,” Mr. only for the individual but also for his had for 2020 have turned to dust. The 2014, Russia seized Crimea after sending in Razumkov said. Ukrainians in occupied construction which was erected for United States is no longer a suitable troops and staging a referendum boycotted areas of the Donbas who have accepted another time” (kasparov.ru/material. enemy given its own leadership problems. by many Crimean Tatars. In her statement, passports offered by Russia often had no php?id=5EBBBB4744 968). “But where is a new enemy to be found, an Ms. Kvien said that the deportation of the choice, Mr. Razumkov explained. “There are “The Russian state, directed toward enemy which is categorically necessary to Crimean Tatars 76 years ago “caused many – very many – people who were, are, great power status via militarization, us? The Poles and Ukrainians in this role unimaginable trauma, suffering, and the and will remain citizens of Ukraine.
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