AN OVERVIEW OF PARTIES AND CANDIDATES WILL KHARKIV BECOME STORY OF A MAN WHO SPENT RUNNING FOR SEATS IN PARLIAMENT THE NEXT SEPARATIST HOTSPOT A MONTH IN CAPTIVITY IN DONBAS № 13 (79) OCTOBER 2014 WWW.UKRAINIANWEEK.COM Featuring selected content from The Economist FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION |CONTENTS BRIEFING Where Are Estonia’sF riends? A New World Order: The NATO does not know how to deal with small, confusing new rules imposed on challenges, so Russia unleashes them. If they go unpunished, the world by the Russian they set a precedent dictator create a cruel no- holds-barred game. When 27 it is in full swing, the soft Nuclear Whimper: Edward Lucas on trust and the West comfort of Western life may easily disappear forever 28 4 ECONOMICS On the Edge of Recession: The West’s sanctions are hitting POLITICS Russia’s contracting economy Back to Black: The Ukrainian Week looks at party lists and independent candidates to see how many “new faces” the 29 upcoming parliament will have A Plea for Change: Transition from oligarch economy to EU membership for Ukraine 6 The Next People’s Republic? Without “tourists” from Russia, 30 the separatist movement in Kharkiv has quickly marginalized. If Nobel-winning economistR oger Myerson: not for pro-Russian sympathies of the local authorities, it would “Many arguments against decentralisation are based hardly pose any threat at all on a misconception of what it means” 10 34 Separatism From Top Offices of Kyiv: SECURITY Separatism in Ukraine is Ex-Defence MinisterM ykhailo Koval talks about the army, predominantly instigated military reforms, and its role in the current war from the outside: it has no powerful domestic 36 grounds despite the Oleksandr Skipalsky, the man behind mass propaganda of the Ukraine’s military counterintelligence East-West divide service and intelligence, speaks on the Security Service of Ukraine, its biggest 13 problems and ways to fix them FOCUS 38 The CommunistP arty May Be on Its LastL egs, But Social The story of a pro-Ukrainian Populism is Still Alive: The Communist Party is dwindling in activist who spent a month Ukraine. Social populism is not, bringing forth new players that in captivity are better fits for the new Ukrainian society in the “Donetsk People’s 16 Republic” Leonidas Donskis on how Lithuania got rid of Communism 41 19 HISTORY The Red Thaw in EasternE urope: Many East European ex- What Makes Kharkiv Ukrainian: The early days, Cossack times Communists survived post-Soviet lustration and remained in and Russification politics through the 1990s and early 2000s 44 20 CULTURE & ARTS The Tribal Instinct:The Tribe, a new film by Myroslav NEIGHBOURS Slaboshpytskiy, silently speaks for the teenagers who cannot EstonianP resident Toomas Hendrik Ilves: “We are clearly at the speak beginning of a period where Russia is a very different partner” 48 22 Contemporary films, freak-cabaret and a The (E)U-Turn on Ukraine: Pragmatism or Surrender? celebration of chocolate: The Ukrainian Week compiles the calendar of must-see 24 events this month French companies resist sanctions againstR ussia 50 26 E-mail [email protected] www.ukrainianweek.com Tel. (044) 351-13-87 The Ukrainian Week № 13 (79) October 2014 Editors address 37 Mashynobudivna str., Kyiv, 03067, Ukraine Founder ECEM Media GmbH. Publisher ECEM Media GmbH Print run 15 000. Free distribution Address Austria, Am Gestade,1, 1010 Vienna Our partner State registration certificate КВ № 19823-9623ПР 19.03.2013 Chief Editor Alla Lazareva Editors Anna Korbut, Natalia Romaneс, Shaun Williams № 13 (79) OCTOBER 2014|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|3 BRIEFING| TRENDS &TALK Hryvnia plunges to UAH 14.97 per Education Ministry de- Mass rallies for peace take place in Moscow 1 US dollar, a historic low. Subse- cides to relocate Donetsk and other Russian cities. Participants call for quent pressure from President and University to Vinnytsia, end of war in Ukraine. Russian government Government push bankers to return Central Ukraine, after does not launch wide-scale repressions but the exchange rate to UAH 12.95 per plea from its students supporters of “Novorossiya” arrange numer- 1 US dollar and professors ous provocations A New World Order Nearly everything was predictable at the latest PACE session. Everything except confusion. It was felt not only in the speeches of adequate participants in the debates on Ukraine but virtually in everything. Strasbourg’s usual calm betrayed anxiety and unmistakable perplexity over what to do next – with the war, with Ukraine and Russia and with the entire world hey are trying to think Author: thetical anti-Kremlin coalitions – of something, but they Alla Lazareva, that is, if there was political will to don’t know, they sim- Strasbourg form them. What remains then? “Tply don’t know what to Thinking, seeking fundamentally do,” a diplomat with many years of new decisions and inventing a new experience in the Council of Europe kind of diplomacy for information told me as he pensively sipped cap- (or perhaps post-democratic?) soci- puccino which a barmaid had ety. The Council of Europe could brought him by mistake. become a laboratory for these kinds “You see, the world has not seen of ideas. It could if it were not a situation of this kind. South Osse- weighed down by significant Rus- tia and Abkhazia are still formally considered parts of Georgia. Nago- rno-Karabakh is an object of con- THE NEW RULES IMPOSED ON tention between two neighbouring THE WORLD BY THE RUSSIAN states. Transnistria is marked as part of Moldova on all maps of the DICTATOR CREATE A CRUEL world. But the Crimea is simply an NO-HOLDS-BARRED GAME. annexed and appropriated land. No mechanisms are envisaged for lead- WHEN IT IS IN FULL SWING, ing international organizations to THE SOFT COMFORT OF address such problems!” my ac- quaintance said in an effort to jus- WESTERN LIFE MAY EASILY tify his colleagues in the Council of DISAPPEAR FOREVER Europe. Indeed, let the Council of Eu- sian influence, which is felt even Zatuliveter whom the British special rope address exclusively human when members of the Russian dele- services accused of espionage in fa- rights and democratic standards. gation are not in attendance. vour of Russia. In every session, Let us take a look at other, more As many as 60 delegates ex- Hancock acts as an advocate of the powerful structures – the OSCE and pressed a desire to participate in the Kremlin. This time around, he again the United Nations. The OSCE can- discussion of the Ukrainian crisis at tried to convince the audience that not take radical action against Rus- this autumn session. About half of “we shouldn’t accuse Putin of every- sia, because a supranational politi- them are either active proponents of thing” and that “we need to ac- cal decision can be adopted there “dialogue with Russia” or politicians knowledge the presence of Russian exclusively by consensus, and Rus- who sometimes agree to act as tem- interests in Ukraine”. sia will itself block it. A similar situ- porary Moscow’s allies. “I believe Proposals to “hear Russia”, “un- ation is with the United Nations that this is a mistake and deeply re- derstand Russia” and “take Russia where Russia is a permanent mem- gret that the Russian delegation is into account” came from Andrej ber of the Security Council. That not with us in the session hall,” Hunko of Germany, a representa- leaves us NATO, which is in no Mike Hancock expectedly said. He tive of the Unified European Left hurry to enter open confrontation came into the limelight when a Group, and British socialist Donald with Moscow. There are also hypo- scandal erupted over his aide Katia Anderson, a member of the Euro- 4|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|№ 13 (79) OCTOBER 2014 Separatists continue Activists demolish Assets of former officials arrested in to break cease- the monument to Latvian banks: USD 49.3mn for fire. 30U krainian Vladimir Lenin in ex-NBU Chair Serhiy Arbuzov and military were killed Kharkiv, a key city in USD 32mn for ex-Party of Regions MP during the “truce” EasternU kraine Yuriy Ivaniushchenko pean Democrat Group, which in- cannot prevent any delegate from cludes representatives of the Party calling a press conference. But of Regions and United Russia, as Ukraine must not only deny un- well as from Edward Leigh, German truthful accusations. Ukraine needs socialist Ute Finckh-Krämer and to have its own active communica- others. There were many more who tion strategy. And not only that spoke in the same vein: Ukraine strategy.” should not be promised NATO The carefree autumnal sun was membership; it should not work di- playing with its rays outside the rectly with the EU, because what window. A neat Strasbourg lived its Putin wants is a desire of – not God neat provincial life. Delegates who but some invincible substance, took part in the debates flatly re- more powerful than anything else. fused to believe that even on that Grigor Petrenko of Moldova day the world was changed forever. went as far as saying that “Sieg The integrity of state borders has Heil!” salutes can be heard in Kyiv been de facto placed outside inter- and that the “Nazi government in national law. The UN Security Kyiv” is destroying communists and Council has turned into a malicious placing bans on the use of Russian. umbrella which, in essence, protects No-one objected to him, and no-one the right of a predator to conquer prevented him from organizing a the territories of a neighbouring press conference where he sent out state with impunity and kill people similar messages. No surprise there on a daily basis.