EDWARD LUCAS ON PAINFUL AND VITAL: THE UPCOMING REFORMS EX-CHAIR OF THE STATE PROpeRTY FUND THE NEW COLD WAR IN UKRAINE'S ENERGY SECTOR ON OLIGARCHS AND THE NEW GOVERNMENT № 6 (72) APRIL 2014 WWW.UKRAINIANWEEK.COM Featuring selected content from The Economist FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION B OOKST ORES KYIV 3, vul. Lysenka tel: (044) 235-88-54; 5,vul. Spaska tel: (044) 351-13-38, 33/2, Povitroflotskiy Prospekt tel: (044) 275-67-42 LVIV 7, Prospekt Svobody tel: (032) 235-73-68 VINNYTSIA 89, Soborna tel: (0432) 52-9341 TERNOPIL 7-9, vul. Valova tel: (0352) 25-4459 KHARKIV 3, vul. Sumska tel: (057) 731-5949 IVANO-FRANKIVSK 31, vul. Nezalezhnosti tel: (0342) 72-2502 VOLODYMYR-VOLYNSKIY 6, vul. Kovelska tel: (03342) 2-1957 www.book-ye.com.ua ONLINE BOOKSHOP WWW.BOOK-YE.COM.UA/SHOP |CONTENTS BRIEFING NEIGHBOURS Who’s the Realist Here? Philippe How Far Can the West de Lara on the divide in Ukraine, Go? So far, the rest extremists on Maidan and Ukraine of the world has as the orbit of Russia’s natural managed to isolate geopolitical interests Russia over its actions in Crimea. 4 Whether such FOCUS isolation in the Russian Aggression: long-term will force Genesis, goals, Putin to change his counteraction and legal policies remains to be consequences seen 6 22 Edward Lucas: “The new All For One: NATO must banish the suspicion that it would not Cold War has been about always defend its eastern flank the use of Russian money to divide the weak of the 24 West and also the use of SECURITY the energy weapon” A Ukrainian Foreign Legion: Does Ukraine 10 need mercenaries in its Dear Price army So that others would fear and not sneer for Cheap Putin is aware that his authority in the country res merely on an illusion that he has reored Russia’s “might” in the international arena. Russians view him precisely as a power president, and his support 26 Popularity: By levels revolve on maintaining this image 100 Aggression Tuzla Aggression Aggression plunging Russia again Island again again What kind of country would Chechnya confli Georgia Ukraine you like Russia to be now? (%) CULTURE & ARTS into a full-scale 80 62 60 48 confrontation Supporters 47 Russia’s Tango With the Devil: Leonidas Donskis of Putin’s aions 36 with the West to 40 on Russian musicians, actors and artists who 5 boost his own Critics of Putin’s 3 signed a letter to support Putin’s aggression in 20 aions November 2005 March 2014 Superpower feared and respeed popularity ratings 0 by other countries Ukraine 3 3 3 9 9 8 8 0 Country with a high andard of living even 013 013 013 013 013 014 014 014 00 00 00 00 00 00 if not one of the world’s superpowers Vladimir Putin .2 3.2 2.2 11.2 12.2 Hard to say 11.2 12.199 10.2 01.2 12.2 0 0 09.2 08.2 10.2 09.199 07 01.2 may be preparing 09.2 29 his country for Ukrainian art curator Pavlo another sobering shock from the Gudimov on consolidation of defeat in a conflict with the entire world artists in the revolution, the choice of tolerance over aggression and 12 wisdom in pursuit of cultural ECONOMICS evolution Ex-Head of Ukraine’s B OOKST ORES State Property Fund 30 Oleksandr Bondar on KYIV handling oligarchs Yulia 3, vul. Lysenka tel: (044) 235-88-54; 5,vul. Spaska tel: (044) 351-13-38, that lay the golden Lytvynets, Chief Custodian of eggs in the wrong 33/2, Povitroflotskiy Prospekt tel: (044) 275-67-42 Ukraine’s National Art Museum, on place the post-revolutionary perception LVIV of museum art collections and 7, Prospekt Svobody tel: (032) 235-73-68 15 horizontal relationships between VINNYTSIA museums and individuals 89, Soborna tel: (0432) 52-9341 Mykhailo Honchar, Chair of the Strategy XXI Centre for Global Studies, talks about Ukraine’s painful energy sector 32 TERNOPIL as a maturity test for its government and Russia’s reluctance 7-9, vul. Valova tel: (0352) 25-4459 to allow competitive players on the post-Soviet market KHARKIV 3, vul. Sumska tel: (057) 731-5949 18 IVANO-FRANKIVSK 31, vul. Nezalezhnosti tel: (0342) 72-2502 VOLODYMYR-VOLYNSKIY E-mail [email protected] 6, vul. Kovelska tel: (03342) 2-1957 Tel. (044) 351-13-87 www.book-ye.com.ua www.ukrainianweek.com The Ukrainian Week № 6 (72) April 2013 Editors address 37 Mashynobudivna str., Kyiv, 03067, Ukraine Founder ECEM Media GmbH Print Novy Druk LLC, 1 Mahnitohorska str., Kyiv, 03056, Ukraine Publisher ECEM Media GmbH Ordering number 14-1034 Sent to print on 28 March 2014 ONLINE BOOKSHOP Address Austria, Am Gestade,1, 1010 Vienna Print run 15 000. Free distribution WWW.BOOK-YE.COM.UA/SHOP State registration certificate КВ № 19823-9623ПР 19.03.2013 Chief Editor Alla Lazareva Our partner Editors Anna Korbut, Natalia Romaneс, Shaun Williams № 6 (72) APRIL 2014|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|3 BRIEFING| TRENDS &TALK Petro Porosh- US intelligence warns Obama of a Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi arrives in Donetsk enko announces higher likelihood of further Russian with 150 students from Lvivto cheer for the intent to run for incursion to Eastern andS outhern Donestk hockey team, and 150 students from presidency Ukraine, pressing to Transnistria and Donetsk come to Lviv for a city tour, under the East seeking land grabs in the Baltics and West Together initiative Who’s the Realist Here? its accomplishments are worth WWII. I have written about this of respect. Europeans realize and I will write more about this. this. A switch to the change of Plus, we have geography. Constitution over a few days of Isn’t Ukraine within the orbit of the heroic uprising is an unprec- the Russian influence, whether edented move in modern history it wants this or not? Doesn’t – and an encouraging one. By Russia have fair reasons to treat contrast, justifying Russia in all an independent Western-ori- this seems impossible. Its ag- ented country on its threshold gression with “green men” in as an unbearable threat to itself Crimea and “Russian-speakers” (Donetsk is on the same longi- who lifted the Russian flag on tude as Moscow)? Isn’t it per- the oblast administration in fectly natural for every big coun- Kharkiv, only to return home to try to protect its area of security Moscow later, is excessively and influence in this multipolar brutal and grotesque. Europe- and globalized world? Didn’t the ans are outraged and stand with West betray Russia by promis- Ukraine, supporting sanctions ing to stop spreading eastward against Russia, worrying that after Germany reunited with they may be too weak, and won- NATO in 1990? Аuthor: dering what could be more ef- Talk like this irritates Ukrai- Philippe de Lara fective. nians – and they are right to feel Still, this democratic revolu- that. It also rightly irritates n November 3, 2013, tion in which we, the French, those who realize that Ukraine’s and, sadly more so after can see ourselves, raises some freedom today is the soul of Eu- February 18-20, 2014, questions. Geography and his- rope. But I think that we should O the voice of the Ukrai- tory cast doubts about the legiti- separate blatant lies that can nian revolution is heard better only meet disdain and sophisms in the world. The people of that require patient and thor- Maidan have inspired all demo- RUSSIA LOST UKRAINE IN 1991. ough answers because they tend crats while the temporary gov- THEN, IT KepT LOSING UKRAINE to confuse honest people. ernment established as a result These sophisms have been of the revolution is doing well as EVERY NEXT DAY, answered a thousand times, yet I am writing this: it stays under ACTING AS A RUINOUS they have to be answered two control in the face of the Rus- thousand times, and ten thou- sian invasion and other develop- CORRUPT FORCE sand times if needed. In my ments that risk destabilizing opinion, the Ukrainian cause Odesa and Eastern Ukraine. It macy and feasibility of this dem- has three vulnerable aspects has taken active steps, articu- ocratic revolution. which we have to keep explain- lated its choice in favour of part- I will not tackle history even ing over and over again. ing with the sovietized economy if it is the essence of the prob- 1. Ukraine’s division into and corruption, is preparing the lem. Ukrainians are a nation east and west. The widespread election, has signed the political whose history was banned, a na- opinion is that Eastern Ukraine part of the Association Agree- tion struggling in the prison of is pro-Russian because it still ment with the EU, has brought Soviet lies. This lies has already bears the Soviet trace, while numerous OSCE observers to lost much of its power (few deny civil society has emerged in Ukraine and has not pro- the Holodomor today). Yet, it Western Ukraine only. The nounced the dangerous NATO still tarnishes the minds of widespread opinion is that the word. Mistrust of many Ukraini- many Europeans. Their igno- divide is of religious nature ans for this temporary govern- rance makes many of them still (sometimes, the French media ment after 23 years of betrayed believe in one or another aspect write that all Ukrainians in independence is justified. Still, of Russia’s official version of Western Ukraine are Catholics 4|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|№ 6 (72) APRIL 2014 Crimean Tatars offer priests ofU krainian Orthodox In his address to Ukrainians spread Church, Kyiv Patriarchate, to hold sermons in mosques by Russian news agency ITAR if they face threats in their churches.