AN UPDATE ANDREW WILSON ON THE WEST HOW UKRAINE CAN RECOVER MONEY ON DONBAS AND CRIMEA AND YaNUKOVYCH FROM OLIGARCHS № 4 (70) MARCH 2014 A COUNTRY OF FREE RADICALS WWW.UKRAINIANWEEK.COM Featuring selected content from The Economist FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION DOZENS OF PROTESTERS DEAD FOUR HUNDRED INJURED THE EXACT NUMBER OF VICTIMS OF THE REGIME REMAINS UNKNOWN |CONTENTS BRIEFING Ukraine as the Latest The Mist of Victory: The revolution is Fashion: Poles support the Maidan gladly and over. A war begins passionately 4 22 FOCUS Leonidas Donskis: “Every piece of information about The Feast of Defiance: The surge of separatism Ukraine on Russian TV was would have peacefully died down in Crimea. similar to what I had long been listening immediately after 13 Then, Russia interfered January 1991 when the Soviet troops killed fourteen peaceful 6 civilians in Vilnius” Volodymyr Panchenko explains why the 24 Crimea is not a “native Russian land” International lawyer Volodymyr Vasylenko: 8 “There is no statute of Knockout in the Donbas: Confusion, shock and urgent need of limitations for crimes a wise solution from the new government against humanity” Divide and rule? The Ukrainian Week has superimposed three maps of Ukraine: adminirative, economic and hiorical-ethnographic. This simple experiment shows that the maps do not match. This leads to the queion: What principle are the political adepts of federalization going to use to carve up Ukraine? 9 Hiorical-ethnographic divisions 26 (coloured lines) Chernihiv Sumy V O L Y N Adminirative divisions Watch Out – Federalization! Volyn I S S I e O L A SL (white lines) І Rivn KYIV O P BO АЛЬНІ Zhytomyr D ECONOMICS ЦЕНТР A U Who, how and when Kyiv K Kharkiv ЗАХІДН Lviv P Poltava R KhmelnytskiyO A Ternopil D I СХІДНІ G Cherkasy N Luhansk Регіони A L I Vi I C nnytsia T R E E України I A L N E S federalized Ukraine – and Iv L Ihor Losev on the ano- C Fr ankivs I A k A Dnipropetrovsk Zakarp Kirovohrad k B attia LO hernivtsi WER Donets N what consequences this had C DNIEPER political side of O TRA A REGION D NSC VYN Mykolayiv ARPAT BUKO HIA AND B L AC K S E Odesa A Kherson Zaporizhzhia R E Ukraine’s oligarchy G I O Economic regions of Ukraine N (each region in a different colour) North-Weern Central 10 Capital Dnieer South-Eaern Donetsk CRIMEA Carpathian Black Sea Crimea Podillia Source: open sources 28 NEIGHBOURS Oligarch Wars: Ukrainian Economic Revolution: Western transformations perspective, Western should be profound. influence and Western Otherwise, there contribution will be no economic transformations 13 How to Be Good 30 Neighbours: Ukraine is the biggest test of the EU’s policy towards countries on its borderlands CULTURE & ARTS Ballet, the voice of Enigma and 16 Ancient Greece: The Ukrainian Andrew Wilson: “The West did not react adequately to the Week’s choice of events to attend in usurpation of power by Yanukovych” early spring 18 33 Between the Devil and HISTORY the Deep Blue Sea: Is Britain willing Kyiv: The streets and to do more than just squares of revolutions condemn the Russian in 1917 military occupation of Crimea? 34 20 E-mail [email protected] Tel. (044) 351-13-87 www.ukrainianweek.com The Ukrainian Week № 4 (70) March 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 14-0626 Sent to print on 28 February 2014 Address Austria, Am Gestade,1, 1010 Vienna Print run 15 000. Free distribution State registration certificate КВ № 19823-9623ПР 19.03.2013 Chief Editor Alla Lazareva Our partner Editors Anna Korbut, Natalia Romaneс, Shaun Williams № 4 (70) MARCH 2014|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|3 BRIEFING| TRENDS &TALK Internal troops and Parliament forms a MPs from South-Eastern regions Protesters take administra- riot police leave new majority and convene in Kharkiv. Despite fears tive buildings under control government district begins to set up of separatism, they do not pass any all over Ukraine. Officials after bloody clashes the government of significant decisions. Shortly after, leave the Party of Regions with protesters public trust they recognize the new government and resign en masse. Monu- in Kyiv ments to Lenin are toppled Interbank market closes at UAH 10.5 per USD The Mist of Victory 1 on March 3 fter Viktor Yanukovych fled Аuthor: like never before. They have and before Ukraine found it- Roman Malko learned and grasped a lot and dis- Ukrainians withdraw UAH self on the brink of a war, it covered many things in them- Aseemed Ukrainians could be selves. They can now be truly celebrating the victory, but some- proud of themselves for they have how there was no euphoria. Only a accomplished something that takes 30bn mist. The only thing that could be other nations decades to do. And from deposits during the most clearly seen through it were the bod- the overthrown president should violent clashes in Kyiv ies of the deceased protesters. Noth- be given a lot of credit for this. By ing else. No-one knew what would alienating his own people beyond happen next. No-one knows now measure, this unfortunate fool has The assets of the Yanukovych family how long the mist will hang over ev- done the impossible and helped are worth USD eryone and what hides behind it. The only thing that is clear now is that the Ukrainian people cannot stop, not even for a second. Because 12bn, the revolution is continuing. Anders Åslund from the Peterson There is still a lot of work to be Institute for International Economics done – in fact, so much that it is reports dangerous to trust politicians with doing it. Because they will fail, as they did last time. They will drown it in words, sell it or hush it up. But people cannot afford to let that 984 people happen again. The victory came at are injured in clashes that started much too dear a price; too much on February 18. 95 people are blood has been shed. The souls of killed. 341 people are still missing, the deceased heroes will not for- according to EuroMaidan SOS, a give; the living will not excuse; the future generations will curse. human rights NGO Ukrainians again have a chance, perhaps, the biggest one in many centuries – they can finally become a people, change, cleanse 285 out themselves of servility and rule in their own land. They only need to of 700-800 avoid the mistakes they made after protesters are arrested during a rally the Orange Revolution, stay alert against Russia’s military intervention and not give in to indifference. in Ukraine in Moscow, OVD Info Yanukovych has fled, but he can come back at any moment. With a reports different surname, face and team of “professionals”. Politicians continue Ukrainian men crowd to register to play the same old games. They under the national mobilization have quickly bounced back, taken campaign in response to Russian stock of the situation and changed military intervention. In the town their rhetoric. Not even two weeks of Lutsk alone, volunteers apply for after the shocking killing of protest- THIS IS NOT ers, they are back to their old ways, VICTORY YET. registration every lying, scheming, buying loyalty and THE STRUGGLE weaving their poisonous webs. CONTINUES True, in the three months of 5-10 minutes protests Ukrainians have changed 4|THE UKRAINIAN WEEK|№ 4 (70) MARCH 2014 |BRIEFING People get access to the man- Parliament ActingI nterior A surge of separatist rallies in the Russian occupation of sions of Viktor Yanukovych, schedules presi- Minister signs Crimea. Pro-Russian forces replace the Crimea begins. Re- ex-Prosecutor General Viktor dential and Kyiv a decree to Ukrainian flags with theR ussian ports come of Russian Pshonka and other top officials. mayor election disband the ones on administrative buildings. A troops being deployed The latter are put on a wanted for May 25 Berkut riot clash takes place between Crimean around other Ukrai- list and face criminal charges police Tatars and pro-Kremlin activists nian frontiers resurrectthe spirit of freedom, First and foremost, Ukrainians must also be revamped with an un- which was dormant for so long, in must kill the slave in themselves. derstanding that it has to serve and Ukrainians. But should the people They must kill the slave in their rel- fear people rather than bandits The Mist of Victory thank the despot? Probably not. atives and friends, neighbours and whose place is in prison. It needs to Ukrainians need to thank them- close ones. They must excise this be hammered home to the police selves for mustering the strength to evil abscess in politicians, those that they cannot raise their hands rise from their knees and lift up delegated to govern the country. against the people. Ukrainians their heads. And if they refuse to change, they must change the education system We have won a battle. But this should be simply thrown out as so that it will produce wise and was just the first victory, before rubbish. honest graduates who do not even Ukraine was thrust into a new war. Ukrainians must transform the think about bribing teachers to get There will be many more battles country, from bottom up, here and good grades. The health care sys- and frustrations, but the people now. The system of power must be tem needs to be transformed to must win the war. They have no changed keeping in mind that offi- prevent people from dying due to other choice, no room for either a cials are hired servants of the peo- carelessness and greed.