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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT -
AUR
An International
Newsletter, The Latest, Up-To-Date
In-Depth Ukrainian News, Analysis and Commentary
Ukrainian History, Culture, Arts,
Business, Religion,
Sports, Government, and Politics, in Ukraine and Around
the World
UKRAINE REMEMBERS
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THE WORLD
ACKNOWLEDGES
75th Commemoration Of The Holodomor
1932-1933
Induced
Starvation, Death for Millions,
Genocide.
November 24, 2007 to November 22,
2008
ACTION UKRAINE REPORT - AUR - Number
887
Mr. E. Morgan Williams, Publisher and Editor,
SigmaBleyzer
WASHINGTON, D.C., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER
4, 2007
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Serhii Bobok, Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct 23, 2007
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. NATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE
REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR
RECOGNIZED HOLODOMOR IN UKRAINE AS ACT OF
GENOCIDEForUm, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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. UKRAINE URGES WORLD COMMUNITY AT UN TO
INTRODUCEINTERNATIONAL DAY COMMEMORATING VICTIMS OF
GENOCIDE
Interfax Ukraine News, Kyiv, Ukraine, October 4, 2007
8
. LIBYA TO CONSIDER ISSUE OF 1932-1933 FAMINE IN
UKRAINE
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, October 25,
2007
9
. UKRAINE TO SEEK ISRAELI
RECOGNITION FOR 1930'S GENOCIDE
By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz, Israel,
Sunday October 28, 2007
10
. UKRAINE:
PRES YUSHCHENKO CALLS ON INTERNATIONALCOMMUNITY TO
CONDEMN CRIMES OF STALIN'S REGIME
Moscow, Russia, Saturday, November 3, 2007
Office of the President of Ukraine (in Ukrainian)
Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday November 2, 2007
Action Ukraine Report #887, Article 15 (In English)
International Conference, Rome, Italy, Friday, November 9, 2007
Professor Federigo Argentieri, John Cabot University
International Conference: Organized by Guarini Institute for
Public Affairs-John Cabot University With the cooperation of
Comitati Pro Libertatibus and the Italian Association for the
Study of Central and Eastern European History (AISSECO)
Rome, Italy, November 1, 2007
OSTROV, Provider: Research Center of Donbass Social
Perspectives
Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, October 26, 2007
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. UKRAINE: UGLY FACE OF EMERGING
EXTREMISM
Peter Dickinson, Business Ukraine Magazine
Business Ukraine,
Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, October 29,
2007
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1
. UNESCO GENERAL CONFERENCE PASSES
RESOLUTION TO
HONOR MEMORY OF VICTIMS OF UKRAINE'S GREAT
FAMINE
According to media, the word "genocide" was removed from the
final text
Interfax Ukraine News, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thu, November 1,
2007
KYIV - The General Conference of UNESCO unanimously passed
on
November 1 a resolution entitled "Remembrance of the Victims of the
Great
Famine (Holodomor) in Ukraine", the press service of the Ukrainian
Foreign
Ministry reported on Thursday.
The 34th UNESCO General
Conference noted that in the former Soviet Union,
millions of men, women and
children fell victims to the cruel actions and
policies of the totalitarian
regime.
The documents reads the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine
(Holodomor)
took from 7 million to 10 million innocent lives and became a
national
tragedy for the Ukrainian people.
The resolution of the
UNESCO General Conference presented sympathy to the
victims of the Great
Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine and victims of famines
that also took place in
Russia, Kazakhstan and other regions of the former
USSR, the Ukrainian press
service said.
The resolution was drafted by Ukraine in co-authorship with
other 45 member
states of UNESCO. According to a number of Ukrainian
media, the word
"genocide" was removed from the final text of the
resolution.
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. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT WELCOMES
UNESCO RESOLUTION
TO HONOR VICTIMS OF UKRAINE'S GREAT FAMINE OF
1932-1933
Expressed confidence it would one day be recognized as
genocide
Press office of President Victor Yushchenko
Kyiv,
Ukraine, Friday, November 2, 2007
KYIV - President Victor Yushchenko
welcomes yesterday's resolution by
UNESCO to honor the victims of Ukraine's
Great Famine of 1932-1933.
"This resolution shows that the job which has
been done by Ukraine, [its]
political forces and diplomats has been
recognized in 193 countries of the
world," he said on Friday in an interview
with "Dzerkalo Tyzhnya," "Silski
Visti," "Ukrayina Moloda" and
"Fakty."
"The international community has for the first time made such a
large-scale
consolidated decision regarding the recognition of the Great
Famine of
1932-1933."
The president expressed confidence Ukraine's
Soviet-era famine would one
day be recognized as genocide against the
Ukrainian nation.
Speaking of Ukraine's efforts to persuade parliaments
around the world to
pass such resolutions, Yushchenko said: "We deliver
dozens of speeches,
the Memory Institute holds dozens of conferences and
there is no parliament
in the world which has not received my message
regarding the recognition
of the Holodomor as
genocide."
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. UNESCO CALLS ON ITS
MEMBER-COUNTRIES TO HONOR
MEMORIES OF VICTIMS OF 1932-1933 FAMINE IN
UKRAINE
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, November 1,
2007
KYIV - The General Conference of UNESCO has called on the
member-
countries of the organization to honor the memories of the victims of
the
1932-1933 famine in Ukraine.
The press service of the Ukrainian
Foreign Affairs Ministry announced this
in a statement, a text of which
Ukrainian News obtained.
According to the statement, the 34th session of
the General Conference of
UNESCO adopted a resolution on honoring the
memories of the victims of
the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine on November
1.
According to the resolution, the tragedy of the famine should be a
warning
to the present and future generations to abide by democratic values,
human
rights, and the law.
It expresses condolences to the victims of
the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine
as well as the victims of the famines that
occurred in Russia, Kazakhstan,
and other former Soviet
republics.
Moreover, the General Conference welcomed the initiative of
Ukraine to
organize the commemorations on the occasion of the 75th
anniversary of
the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine and encouraged UNESCO
member-states
to take part in those events.
UNESCO also requests that
its director-general promote awareness of
remembrance of the 1932-1933 famine
in Ukraine by incorporating this
knowledge into the educational programs
aimed at inculcating the lessons
of this tragic event in future
generations.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Foreign Affairs
Ministry presented
the draft of the resolution on infirming member-states of
UNESCO about the
1932-1933 famine in Ukraine to UNESCO for consideration on
October 4.
President Viktor Yuschenko has declared 2008 as the year of
remembrance
of the victims of the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine.
The
Ukrainian parliament declared the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine as an
act of
genocide against the Ukrainian people in 2006.
Ukraine will honor the
memories of the victims of famines and political
repression on November
25.
Between 3 million and 7 million people died in the 1932-1933 famine
in
Ukraine, according to various estimates.
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. "WE ACCUSE: HOLODOMOR GENOCIDE
1932-1933" THE
HOLODOMOR 1932-1933 75TH COMMEMORATION EXHIBITION
WILL BE HELD IN KYIV AT THE UKRAINIAN HOUSE FROM
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER
20 TO THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6
Action Ukraine Report
(AUR) #887, Article 4
Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, November 4,
2007
KYIV, Ukraine - The "We Accuse: Holodomor Genocide 1932-1933"
International Exhibition for the 75th Commemoration of the Holodomor
1932-1933 (induced starvation, death for millions, genocide) will be held
in Kyiv at the Ukrainian House from Tuesday, November 20 through
Thursday, December 6, 2007.
The Administration of President Viktor
Yushchenko is in charge of the
exhibition which is under the direction of
Ivan Vasiunyk, First Deputy
Head of the Presidential Secretariat, and Vasyl Vovkun, production
and artistic director.
The international commemorative and
educational exhibition will feature
four individual Holodomor presentations
which will be displayed for
seventeen days in the Ukrainian House in the center of Kyiv.
Historical and educational presentations will be made by the:
[1] Ukrainian National Institute of Memory, Ihor Yukhnovsky,
Director;
[2] Ukraine 3000 International Charity Fund, Kateryna Yushchenko,
Head of the Supervisory Board;
[3] Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Valentyn Nalyvaichenko,
Acting Chief, and by the
[4] Holodomor Education and Exhibition Art Collection, Morgan
Williams, SigmaBleyzer, Trustee.
The National Institute of Memory will display their newly
created
set of sixty-four panels/posters that tell the story of the Holodomor
in documents, historical data, testimonies, photographs and
other
historical information.
The Ukraine 3000 International Charity Fund will display a large
number of posters about the Holodomor created by students and
artists this year in response to a Holodomor poster contest organized
by the Ukraine 3000 Fund. People attending the exhibition will be
able to vote for the posters they think are the most
outstanding.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SUB) will display their set of
over 60 panels/posters created from material in their archives about
the Holodomor such as historical decrees, letters, government
documents, photographs, and other items from the SBU archives.
The Holodomor Education and Exhibition Art Collection will display
over 100 original art works depicting the "Holodomor Through the
Eyes of Ukrainian Artists." The original artworks will
include oil on
canvas paintings, black and white drawings, linocuts, paint on board
poster art and other graphical materials.
Many of the artworks were created between 1989 and 1993, the
first
years artists in Ukraine were ever allowed to deal with such
subjects
as the major crimes of communism. Some of the poster art will
include works by students at the Art Academy in Kyiv created in
2006 and 2007 under the direction of Professor Vitaliy Shostia, a
program sponsored by the Holodomor Education and Exhibition
Art Collection.
High school students from the Poltava Oblast will also have
some Holodomor works on display. Movies and documentaries
will be shown throughout the seventeen day exhibition. Books
about the Holodomor will also be on display. The exhibition
will
be the largest Holodomor exhibition ever held in Ukraine and is
open to the public.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has called on the international
community and governments around the world to condemn the crimes
committed by the Stalin regime and to declare the Holodomor of
1932-1933 as a genocide against the Ukrainian people.
'The crimes of the Stalin regime - the 1932-1933 famine-genocide in
Ukraine, the major terror of the 1930s - should be fully condemned by
the international community. It is the duty of all countries, political and
public forces that accept the values of democracy,' Yuschenko
said.
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. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT
YUSHCHENKO PROCLAIMS 2008 AS YEAR OF MEMORY OF HOLODOMOR 1932-1933
VICTIMS
Serhii Bobok, Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct 23, 2007
KYIV - Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has proclaimed 2008 as the
year of memory of the Holodomor 1932-33 victims.
The President
announced this in Kharkiv when speaking at the second
meeting of the Coordination council for preparation of events on the 75th
anniversary of the Holodomor 1932-33.
"The next year is proclaimed as
the year of immortalizing memory of victims
of the Holodomor 1932-33," told
the President.
Yuschenko expressed confidence in that 2008 Kyiv and Kharkiv will build
new memorials devoted to the 75th anniversary of the tragedy will, the
first
national museum of the Holodomor will be commissioned and many
historical
works on this issue will appear.
As Ukrainian News earlier
reported, when speaking in Kharkiv Yuschenko
criticized representatives of
different layers of power for insufficient
work on immortalizing memory of
the Holodomor 1932-33.
In 2006, the Verkhovna Rada declared the Holodomor
1932-33 as the
genocide of Ukrainian people. November 24 Ukraine honors memory of
victims of famines and political repressions.
In 1932-1933, the famine took lives of about 3-7 million
people.
Moreover, according to information from different historians, there
were
famines in 1921-23 and 1946-1947.
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. NATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE
REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR
RECOGNIZED HOLODOMOR IN UKRAINE AS ACT OF
GENOCIDEForUm, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, October 31,
2007
KYIV - On October 30 the National congress of the Republic of
Ecuador
adopted a resolution by which the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine
was
recognized as an act of genocide of the Ukrainian people. Chairman of
the
subcommittee on interparliamentary relations, bilateral and
multilateral
relations of the foreign affairs Committee of the VRU of the
fifth
convocation Oksana Bilozir informed.
As it is noted in the
statement, the parliament of Ecuador also shows
solidarity with the Ukrainian
people, noted that following of principles of
justice, freedom, democracy and
mutual respect, which must be the basis in
the relations between the
countries in order such phenomena as Holodomor
in Ukraine doesn't repeat
again.
Ecuador is the second country after Peru, the parliament of which
recognized
Holodomor in Ukraine as an act of genocide of the Ukrainian
people. 11
countries have already recognized Holodomor in
Ukraine.
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. UKRAINE URGES WORLD COMMUNITY AT UN TO
INTRODUCE
INTERNATIONAL DAY COMMEMORATING VICTIMS OF
GENOCIDE
Interfax Ukraine News, Kyiv, Ukraine, October 4,
2007
KYIV - Ukraine's First Deputy Foreign Minister Volodymyr
Khandohiy
urged the world community during the 62nd session of the UN
General
Assembly to endorse a resolution introducing an international
day
commemorating the victims of genocide, the ministry's press service
has
reported.
He raised the issue on the need for international
recognition of Ukraine's
famine of 1932-1933 as genocide against the
Ukrainian people. Khandohiy also
expressed hope that the UN "as a collective
and moral voice of the world
community and an effective instrument for
observing human rights and
freedoms" would condemn the tragedy the Ukrainian
people suffered in
1932-1933.
Furthermore, he stressed the need to
step up the international legal
mechanisms and political instruments aimed at
preventing the spread of
weapons of mass destruction.
Khandohiy said
that frozen conflicts in GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan
and Moldova)
countries threatened the sovereignty and territorial integrity
of the
region's states, and stressed the importance of taking practical
steps,
including at the UN, to settle them.
Commenting on the Kosovo problem, he
said that in order to resolve the
situation, all parties should refrain from
acting unilaterally to resolve
the problem, not involving the
UN.
Khandohiy said that hasty actions in resolving the Kosovo issue
might
destabilize the situation in the Balkans and have a negative effect on
the
whole system of international relations.
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. LIBYA TO CONSIDER ISSUE OF
1932-1933 FAMINE IN UKRAINE
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv,
Ukraine, Thursday, October 25, 2007
KYIV - Libya intends to consider the
issue of the 1932-1933 famine in
Ukraine at a session of the Libyan General
People's Congress. The press
service of the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs
Ministry announced this in a
statement, a text of which Ukrainian News
obtained.
According to the statement, the Secretary of the Libyan General
People's
Committee for Foreign Liaison & International Cooperation,
Suleiman
al-Shehoumi, promised during a meeting with Ukraine's Ambassador to
Libya
Hennadii Latyi on Wednesday, October 24, to put the issue to a debate
in the
General People's Congress.
The Ukrainian ambassador drew
attention to the importance of informing the
international community about
the tragedy suffered by the Ukrainian people
as a result of the 1932-1933
famine and expressed the hope that member-
countries of UNESCO will support
the relevant resolution that Ukraine
proposed for consideration at a general
conference of UNESCO.
Latyi also stressed the importance of the closeness
of the two countries'
positions on international politics as well as the
constructiveness of
Ukrainian-Libyan cooperation within international
organizations.
They also paid significant attention to development of
Ukrainian-Libyan
cooperation and the need to quickly sign several important
bilateral
agreements.
The Ukrainian ambassador also informed Shehoumi
about the problems
that Ukrainian citizens working in Libya are
encountering.
Shehoumi assured Latyi that the leadership of the Libyan
People's Congress
would facilitate solution of the problems connected with
the work of
Ukrainian citizens in Libya.
As Ukrainian News earlier
reported, Ukraine has called on UNESCO
member-countries to support its
resolution entitled "On Honoring the
Memory of the Victims of the 1932-1933
Famine in Ukraine."
President Viktor Yuschenko has declared 2008 as the
year of remembrance
of the victims of the 1932-1933 famine in
Ukraine.
The Ukrainian parliament declared the 1932-1933 famine in
Ukraine as an
act of genocide against the Ukrainian people in
2006.
Ukraine will honor the memories of the victims of famines and
political
repression on November 25. [Actually it is Saturday, November
24th]
Between 3 million and 7 million people died in the 1932-1933 famine
in
Ukraine, according to various estimates. Moreover, according to
several
historians, there were famines in Ukraine in the 1921-1923 and
1946-1947
periods.
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. UKRAINE TO SEEK ISRAELI RECOGNITION FOR
1930'S GENOCIDE
By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz, Israel, Sunday October
28, 2007
Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko is expected to ask Israel
to recognize
the genocide of the Ukrainian people in the 1930s by their
communist
government when he visits here in about two weeks, sources
said.
Israel is not expected to accede to the request, which has won the
support
of Jewish community leaders in Ukraine, so as not to damage its
relationship
with Vladimir Putin's government at a sensitive
time.
Millions of Ukrainians died of hunger from 1931 to 1932 following
the
collectivization of farming in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin. Famine
was
particularly severe in Ukraine, which was a regional breadbasket and
was
strongly opposed to the move.
At the same time the communist
government attempted to wipe out Ukrainian
intelligentsia and nationalists,
with estimations of the number of victims
ranging from a million and a half
to 10 million. Advertisement
A number of countries, including the United
States, have recognized these
acts as genocide, however, Russia vigorously
rejects this definition,
preferring to use the term "tragedy."
Members
of the Jewish community in Ukraine say Yushchenko also intends
to present a
proposal in the parliament in Kiev to recognize the suffering
of the Jewish
people in the Holocaust and the suffering of the Ukrainian
people.
The
chairman of the General Council of Jewish organizations, Joseph Zisels,
who
met with Yushchenko last Monday, said yesterday: "Israelis understand
more
than anyone what genocide is and Yushchenko therefore expects that
Israelis
will also recognize the Ukrainian genocide. We don't think it is
the same as
the Holocaust, but it is also a terrible tragedy with seven or
eight million
murdered."
Last week Yushchenko signed a presidential order to return to
the Jewish
community 700 Torah scrolls that were confiscated from the
community by
the communists.
The move is believed to be an attempt to
soften up Jewish and Israeli public
opinion ahead of his visit. He is
expected to bring some of the scrolls to
the Presidential Residence in
Jerusalem during his visit.
An attempt to organize a visit by Yushchenko
to Israel was made about six
months ago by Rabbi Moshe Azman, Ukraine's
Chabad rabbi, and Mordechai
Tzivin, an Israeli attorney active in
international Jewish causes.
But Israeli government officials postponed
the visit, among other reasons
because Yushchenko wanted to be in Israel on
Holocaust Day and to
participate in a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust
Memorial.
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. UKRAINE: PRES YUSHCHENKO CALLS
ON INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY TO CONDEMN CRIMES OF STALIN'S
REGIME
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, November 2, 2007
KYIV
- President Viktor Yuschenko has called on the international community
to
condemn the crimes committed by the Stalin regime. Yuschenko made the
call
at a meeting on perpetuation of the memories of victims of political
repression.
'The crimes of the Stalin regime - the 1932-1933 famine
in Ukraine the major
terror of the 1930s - should be fully condemned by the
international
community. It is the duty of all countries, political and
public forces that
accept the values of democracy,' Yuschenko
said.
He expressed compassion for all the peoples who were part of the
former
USSR and suffered losses as a result of the policies of the Stalin
regime.
Yuschenko called on all the former republics of the USSR to join
forces to
establish the actual scale of the crimes of the Stalin
regime.
'We are obliged to clear our land of all totalitarian signs and
monuments to
criminals who were involved in the destruction of millions of
Ukrainians,'
Yuschenko said in his speech at the meeting.
He welcomed
the Kyiv municipal council's decision to name one of the streets
in Kyiv
after Lesia Kurbas, who was a victim of a totalitarian regime.
Yuschenko
believes that perpetuation of the memories of victims of political
repression is sacred. 'Stalinism destroyed Ukraine with special thoroughness
and in special dimensions. These losses are definitely irreparable.
Systematic destruction of Ukraine-hood was perpetrated on our land,'
Yuschenko said.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Yuschenko
welcomed the General
Conference of UNESCO's resolution that calls on the
member-countries of the
organization to honor the memories of the victims of
the 1932-1933 famine in
Ukraine.
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. PRES YUSHCHENKO CALLS ON
ROMANIA'S PARLIAMENTARY
AUTHORITIES TO ASSIST IN THE RECOGNITION OF HOLODOMOR
1932-1933 AS GENOCIDE AGAINST
UKRAINIANS
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wed, October 31,
2007
KYIV - President Viktor Yuschenko is calling on Romania's
parliamentary
authorities to assist in the recognition of the Holodomor of
1932-33 as
genocide against the Ukrainian nation.
The Presidential press
service announced this in a statement, a copy of
which Ukrainian News has
obtained. According to the statement, Tuesday
Yuschenko met Nicolae Vacaroiu
President of the Senate of Romania, the upper
house of the Romanian
Parliament, and Bogdan Olteanu president of the
Chamber of Deputies, the
lower house of the Romanian Parliament.
At the meeting the sides
discussed Ukraine's domestic political situation,
interparliamentary
cooperation, European and Euro-Atlantic integration of
Ukraine. Besides, the
talkers discussed collaboration in the national
minorities
issues.
Yuschenko expressed hope that the Romanian Parliament will be
assisting,
within the scope of its competence, improvement of condition of
the
Ukrainian national minority in Romania.
The President also called
on the Romanian side to adjoin recognition of the
Holodomor of 1932-33 as
genocide against the Ukrainian nation. Yuschenko
invited heads of the
Romanian Parliament to pay a visit to Ukraine.
As Ukrainian News earlier
reported, Yuschenko left for Romania to attend a
meeting of the
Yuschenko-Basescu Ukrainian-Romanian commission.
In 2006, the Verkhovna
Rada declared the Holodomor 1932-33 as the genocide
of Ukrainian people.
November 24 Ukraine honors memory of victims of famines
and political
repressions. In 1932-1933, the famine took lives of about 3-7
million
people. Moreover, according to information from different historians,
there were famines in 1921-23 and 1946-47 in
Ukraine.
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. FAMINE OF THE 1930'S WAS
NOT GENOCIDE AGAINST
UKRAINIANS SAYS RUSSIAN OMBUDSMAN
VLADIMIR LUKIN
Interfax Ukraine Focus, Kyiv, Ukraine,
Thursday, October 25, 2007
MOSCOW - The famine in Ukraine in the 1930s
was not genocide directed
exclusively against Ukrainians but was part of the
then Soviet state's tough
policy towards all nationalities of the former
Soviet Union, ombudsman in
Russia Vladimir Lukin said at a press conference
at Interfax' main office
[Moscow] on Thursday.
"Attempts are being
made to portray the great famine in Ukraine in the 1930s
as an exclusive
action directed against Ukrainians, which is, of course,
absolutely untrue,"
he said.
"This [famine] was the toughest action against all Soviet
people, Ukrainians
were not alone in suffering from it," Lukin
added.
Earlier, UN coordinator in Kyiv Francis O'Donnell announced that
the issue
of the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine, known as Holodomor, was a
very
important problem for the entire international community.
More
and more countries officially recognize Holodomor as genocide,
he told
reporters in Kyiv.
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. UKRAINE'S FOREIGN
MINISTRY CRITICIZES RUSSIAN
AMBASSADOR VIKTOR CHERNOMYRDIN'S STATEMENTS
ABOUT UPA SOLDIERS AND 1932-1933 FAMINE
IN UKRAINE
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv,
Ukraine, Saturday, November 3, 2007
KYIV - The Ministry of Foreign
Affairs is critical of the opinion statements
made by Russian Ambassador to
Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin about the
Ukrainian Insurgent Army soldiers and
the 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine.
Ukrainian News learned this from the press
service of the ministry.
According to the report, the ministry said that
provision of expert
summarization about the country's past and its inside
political life does
not correspond to the established diplomatic
practice.
'We would like to note that Ukrainian politicians and academic
elite, as
well as the public community, are able to make judgments about the
historical and social phenomena of their nation without additional comments
which are based on ideological and stereotypical principles,' the report
reads.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs requests
Chernomyrdin to refrain
from statements and actions that can have a negative
influence on the
development of good neighbor relations between Ukraine and
Russia.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Chernomyrdin said that
official
recognition of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) soldiers as WWII
veterans
would negatively influence Ukraine-Russia
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. UKRAINE LASHES
BACK AT RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR
OVER HISTORY DURING WWII AND SOVIET-ERA
FAMINE
NIA Novosti, Moscow, Russia, Saturday, November 3,
2007
KIEV - Ukraine's Foreign Ministry dismissed statements by the
Russian
ambassador about a Ukrainian WWII army and Soviet-era famine as
being
against diplomacy.
In an interview with Russia's Vremya Novostei
popular daily Friday, Viktor
Chernomyrdin spoke critically of the attempts to
romanticize the Ukrainian
Insurgent Army (UPA), which has been said to
cooperate with the Nazis in
WWII.
He also slammed President Viktor
Yushchenko's initiative to prosecute those
who deny the 1932-33 famine in
Ukraine known as Holodomor.
"Ukrainian political and scientific elite and
the public can well qualify
historical events of their nation without any
additional commentaries based
on ideological and stereotyped principles," the
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry
said.
The UPA was formed in 1942 on the
initiative of the Organization of
Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). UPA operated
mostly in western Ukraine,
historically opposed to Russian domination, and
fought against the Soviet
Army.
UPA is known to have cooperated with
the Nazis, even though at the end of
the war, it fought against them and the
Soviet Army altogether.
In 2007, President Yushchenko signed a decree to
celebrate the date of UPA
formation as a state holiday. He also awarded a
title of the Hero of Ukraine
posthumously to UPA leader Roman
Shukhevich.
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15. 'CHILDREN, LEARN TO VALUE STALIN,' RUSSIAN PUPILS
TOLD
FEATURE: Agence France Presse (AFP)
Moscow, Russia, Saturday, November 3, 2007
MOSCOW - Former Soviet
dictator Joseph Stalin is back in fashion in
Russia as the Kremlin condones
history textbooks that honour the
Soviet leader (1878-1953) as renovator of
the country. "Children, learn
to value Stalin," the Gazeta newspaper recently
summed up the message
by the textbook's authors. Stalin, the synonym for
state-ordered terror
and torture, still has his followers, especially among
the communists.
However, even non-communists seem to long for someone
like Stalin,
public opinion polls suggest. Historians and human rights
activists
complain about an unprecedented misrepresentation of history
and
accuse President Vladimir Putin of ignoring it.
"Many now present
Stalin as an efficient manager, who did a good thing
with his
collectivization, industrialization and the Second World War
victory," the
head of the Moscow Helsinki Group for Human Rights,
80-year-old Lyudmila
Alekseyeva, said.
This "dangerously flattering picture" ridiculed
millions of innocent
victims of the regime, she said.
Russian human
rights official Vladimir Lukin is deeply concerned that
one of the "country's
most terrible and ruthless criminals is put on a
pedestal."
The
Academic Education Society for the Arts recently approved two
books which
were intended to turn pupils into "real patriots," Russian
media
reported.
The historian Aleksandr Filippov in his book "A Modern History
of
Russia: 1945-2006," has called Stalin "one of the USSR's
most
successful leaders," whose repression helped to get the country out
of
a crisis.
"The modernization of the country needed a responsible
power system,"
the book says. "This is a scandal," individual scholars and
teachers said.
The authors' collective around Filippov is trying to
justify the mass
terror with hindsight and rehabilitate its perpetrators,
they claim.
During a meeting with representatives of the Kremlin, the
Education
Ministry and authors, historian Andrei Sakharov criticized the book
as
a "serious methodical mistake."
"History follows the state's motto:
everything that secures power must
also be good for the people," the director
of the Institute for Russian
History said.
Stalin, who also determined
the history of Germany before, during and
after Hitler's period in power,
continues to be well regarded by many
Russians, according to a survey by
polling firm WZIOM, which is close
to the government.
Almost half the
Communists - second-largest power in the Russian
parliament - dream of a "new
Stalin."
In the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of populist
Vladimir
Zhirinovsky 23 per cent feel the same way, and 14 per cent of
the
Kremlin's United Russia do so too. Only 40 per cent of
those
questioned categorically rejected a return of Stalinism.
With
the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution coming up on
November 7, which
will be celebrated by thousands of communists,
leading members of the
opposition have compared the situation in
Russia with that of
1917.
"Our present-day parliament has no rights, just like back then
under
the tsar," Kremlin critic and former chess world champion
Garry
Kasparov said.
In addition, there was corruption, bureaucracy, a
lack of internal
mechanisms for a modernization of the country, and political
solitude,
Jablonko opposition party leader Grigori Yavlinski
said.
Human rights organizations such as Memorial will this year hold
a
number of commemorative events for the millions of victims of the
so-
called Great Terror under Stalin 70 years ago.
Putin has also
distanced himself from the cruelties. However, critics
have accused the
former civil service head of not fighting hard enough
for a public
condemnation of the crimes.
The Russian president has so far not reacted
to calls for a state- run
commemorative and research centre for the victims
of Stalin's
terror
regime.
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. DESIGN OF MEMORIAL
COMPLEX TO FAMINE VICTIMS OF 1932-1933 APPROVED BY KYIV CITY
PLANNING COUNCIL
Approximate cost of the project will amount
to over UAH 80 million.
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wed,
October 17, 2007
KYIV - The Kyiv city planning council has approved
design of the memorial
complex to the victims of 1932-1933 Famine on 15A
Sichnevoho Povstannia
Street in Pecherskyi district of the capital. Kyiv
chief architect Vasyl
Prysiazhniuk disclosed this at a meeting of the
council.
The project was worked out by Project Systems Company.
Prysiazhniuk
marked it is necessary to specify proportions of a campanile, condition of
elements of the complex and elements of art features.
The concept of
the memorial complex foresees construction of 26-meter-high
campanile, roads
of four granite slabs with two angels on the sides, which
would lead to a
small round lake, where it is planned to locate museum to
Famine
victims.
The campanile and the museum will be made in the style of left
Dnipro River
architecture. There will be a circle of 24 stones around the
campanile with
internal paintings dedicated to bible and four
mosaics.
Each of the stones will bear 1,000 spikelets, which symbolize
the number of
Ukrainian victims. The campanile will be opened letting each
person to light
candle in memory of the tragedy.
According to
representative of the customer, the approximate cost of the
project will
amount to over UAH 80 million [approx. $16 million.]
As Ukrainian News
earlier reported, the city council of Kyiv had approved
architectural
feasibility study regarding placement of the monument to
American historian,
analyst of Famine 1932-1933 in Ukraine James Mace in the
Sichnevoho
Povstannia Street, Pecherskyi District of Kyiv. According to
various
estimates, about 3-7 million people died during the 1932-1933 famine
in
Ukraine.
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. DECREE OF THE
PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE No. 1056/2007
Commemorating in 2007
the Day of Memory for Victims of Holodomor
Office of the President of Ukraine (in Ukrainian)
Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday November 2, 2007
Action Ukraine Report #887, Article 15 (In English)
Washington, D.C., Sunday, November 3, 2007
To ensure adequate
organization and conduct of events related to the Day
of Memory for the victims of Holodomor on November 24, 2007, I hereby
decree:
1. To set up an Organizing committee to prepare and
mark in 2007 the Day
of Memory for the Holodomors victims. To appoint Ivan
Vasiunyk, first
deputy head of presidential secretariat, and Dmytro Tabachnyk, Vice-Premier
of Ukraine, co-heads of the Organizing committee.
Within three days,
the Organizing committee co-heads are to agree with the
prime minister their
proposals on the Organizing committee line-up.
2. The Organizing
committee must approve within one week a plan of
events to be held to
prepare for and commemorate in 2007 the Day of
Memory for the victims of Holodomors.
3. A one-minute silence
shall be observed at 16.00 on November 24, 2007
to remember the victims of
the genocide of the Ukrainian people, by stopping
the work of central and
local executive bodies, industrial companies,
institutions and organizations
(except the organizations where stoppages of
work are technologically
excluded). All public and private vehicles in
cities and towns shall stop
and blow their horns for one minute.
The Ukrainian state flags on the
territory of the country shall be lowered
to half mast on November 24, 2007.
Entertainment events in concert halls,
on radio and TV must be restricted.
4. The Council of Ministers of
the Crimean Autonomous Republic, the state
administrations of the Kyiv
oblast and cities Kyiv and Sevastopol are to lay
mourning wreaths made from
rye and wheat ears at the graves of Holodomor
victims and remember them by
observing a minute of silence, candle lighting,
holding remembrance events
and other mourning events.
5. The Cabinet of Ministers shall:
-
jointly with the Kyiv city administration accelerate designing and
erecting
in Kyin the Memorial to the victims of Holodomors in Ukraine;
- allot
funding in the finalized 2008 budget for the Memorial construction
and
research on the history of Holodomors by the Ukrainian Institute of the
National Memory;
- accelerate designing and erecting a monument to
the 1932-1933 Holodomor
victims in Washington, DC as well as similar
monuments and remembrance
plaques in other
countries.
6. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall:
-
oblige its foreign missions to hold the events to mark in 2007 the Day of
Memory for the Holodomor victims, inviting foreign diplomats stationed in
Ukraine to participate in commemoration events inside the
country;
- render any assistance to the International Coordinating
Committee of the
World Ukrainian Congress in preparing and conducting by
public diaspora
organizations the events to commemorate the Holodomor
victims.
7. The State Committee on television and radio broadcasting
shall provide
wide coverage of events held in preparation and remembrance in
Ukraine
and worldwide of the Day of Memory for the Holodomors victims.
8.
The decree comes into force on publication.
President of Ukraine Viktor
Yushchenko
November 2,
2007
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. AUSTRALIA -
HOLODOMOR COMMEMORATIONS
NOVEMBER 17 THROUGH DECEMBER
2007
Nation-wide Observances will be held in all Australian
capital cities.
Stefan Romaniw, Australian Federation of Ukrainian
Organizations
Australia, Saturday, November 3, 2007
PERTH ---------
Nov 17 - opening of "Ukrainian
Migrants in Western Australia: That was
Then and This is Now" - Holodomor Exhibition at the Perth Town
Hall.
Nov 24 - Combined Panachyda at the UOAC (followed by a showing of the
"Ukrainian Migrants in Western Australia: That was Then and This is Now"
Holodomor Exhibition in the UOAC church hall...
VICTORIA ----------
75th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Genocide - Famine 1932-1933
Ukraine Remembers the World Acknowledges
Association of Ukrainians in Victoria appeals to all to commemorate
and acknowledge the 75th Anniversary of the Great Famine - Genocide
1932-1933.
Mourning Service & Requiem Concert of Religious Songs
Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.; Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral
of Sts. Peter & Paul, 35 Canning Street, North Melbourne
NEW SOUTH WALES
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WE MUST NOT FORGET THE HOLODOMOR OF
1932-1933
Programme of the NSW/Sydney/ Observance on Saturday December
1st,
10.00am Solemn Panachyda - Requiem Ecumenical Service
St. Mary's
Cathedral (45 min)
Encompassing Ecumenical Prayer service with
Homily, and Declaration
of Commencement of the Year of Holodomor 32-by the Chair of the
Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations, AFUO / SUOA.
10.50
am March through Hyde Park ( a distance of less than 200
m)
11.00 am Public Rally in Hyde Park at Archibald
Fountain
Addresses by public figures, reminiscences of Holodomor
survivors,
expressions of solidarity
12.00 pm Conclusion of Rally ,
viewing of Exhibition
4.00 pm All Exhibition stands and
platforms to be removed
SOUTH
AUSTRALIA ----------
November 24, 2007, Program to be available soon.
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. JOIN THE SOLEMN MARCH TO
HONOR THE UP TO 10 MILLION VICTIMS OF THE UKRAINIAN
GENOCIDE OF 1932-
1933 BEING HELD IN NEW YORK CITY, SAT,
NOV 17, 2007
National March of Remembrance
National
Committee to Commemorate the
75th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Genocide of
1932-1933
New York/Washington, Friday, November 2, 2007
NEW YORK - One of the darkest pages in Ukraine's history is the
Genocide of 1932-33, during which up to 10 million innocent victims
were starved to death through a deliberate Soviet policy to crush the
nationally conscious Ukrainian peasantry.
The Ukrainian Genocide
ranks among the worst cases of man's
inhumanity towards man, and is perhaps
the most extreme example
of the use of food as a weapon.
Starting
Point: St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church
(7th Street between 2nd and 3rd
Avenues, New York City)
March begins at 11:45AM, Friday, November 17,
2007
Final Destination: St. Patrick's Cathedral
Solemn Requiem Service at
2PM
To commence the 75th Anniversary of
the Holodomor!
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17th 2007, NEW YORK
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. UKRAINIAN HOLODOMOR &
THE DENIAL OF GENOCIDES
International Conference, Rome, Italy, Friday, November
9, 2007
Professor Federigo Argentieri, John Cabot University
International Conference: Organized by Guarini Institute for
Public Affairs-John Cabot University With the cooperation of
Comitati Pro Libertatibus and the Italian Association for the
Study of Central and Eastern European History (AISSECO)
Rome, Italy, November 1, 2007
ROME, Italy - An international conference entitled, "The Ukrainian
Holodomor and the Denial of Genocides, is being held in Rome, Italy
on Friday, November 9, 2007.
PROGRAM:
9:30: Welcoming and
opening addresses
10:00: First session (Chair: prof. Eric Terzuolo,
JCU)
-- Prof. Taner Akçam (University of Minnesota)
Turkey and the Armenian Genocide
-- Prof. Federigo Argentieri (John Cabot
University)
Hiding, Denying, Minimizing – The Slow and Difficult
Truth About the Ukrainian Famine
-- Dr Frediano Sessi
(independent author)
La negazione della Shoah (in
Italian)
Discussant: Dr Dario Fertilio, („Corriere della Sera”),
Milan
13:15 Lunch break
15:00: Second session (Chair: Prof.
F.Argentieri)
-- Prof. Roman Serbyn, (Université du Québec a Montréal)
Is there a "Smoking Gun” for the Holodomor?
-- Prof.
Georgiy Kasianov (Kyïv-Mohyla Academy),
The Great Famine of 1932-33:
Academia and Politics
-- Dr. Mykola Ryabchuk, (co-editor of
Krytyka, Kyïv)
Holodomor, Politics of Memory and Political
Infighting
in Contemporary Ukraine
Discussant: Prof. Olena
Ponomareva, La Sapienza (in Italian)
17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 Concluding
Round Table Discussion, chaired by Ambassador
Luigi Vittorio Ferraris, President of AISSECO
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. YUSHCHENKO'S PUSH FOR A
HOLODOMOR DENIAL LAW
ANALYSIS: Peter Dickinson, Business
Ukraine magazine
Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, October 29, 2007
President
Yushchenko announced last week his intention to push for laws
criminalising
the denial of the Ukrainian Holodomor terror famine of the
1930s. This would
be the latest step initiated by Yushchenko in addressing
the crimes of the
Soviet era, but it also threatens to infringe on freedom
of
speech
Since becoming Ukraine's third president in 2005, Viktor
Yushchenko has
made a fresh appraisal of the country's history and the crimes
of the
Communist regime one of his broad policy objectives.
This has
seen previously muted remembrance services enter the national
consciousness
and led to the benchmark November 2006 parliamentary vote
which saw lawmakers
overwhelmingly support a bill to recognise the famine
as an act of genocide
against the Ukrainian people.
The next step, it seems, is to be the
introduction of legislation making it
a criminal offense to cast doubt on
this version of events.
During an official visit to Kharkiv last week,
President Yushchenko declared
his intention, as soon as the new parliament
convenes, to call for the
introduction of laws making it a crime to deny the
1932-33 famine.
A EUROPEAN
TREAD
Such legislation would be very much in line with the
general trend towards
genocide denial laws already in place in many European
Union member states.
These existing laws currently focus on denial of the
Holocaust, or genocide
of European Jewry during WWII. Austria, Belgium, the
Czech Republic,
France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia have
all made
denying the Holocaust a criminal offense punishable by anything from
fines
to serious prison time.
Other forgotten or unrecognised
genocides of the 20th century are also
coming up for reappraisal, not least
the murder of an estimated 1.5 million
Armenians in Ottoman Turkey during the
First World War.
A preliminary vote by the American House of
Representatives earlier this
month branding the deaths an act of genocide
provoked international
political repercussions that are now threatening to
impact on the precarious
peace of northern Iraq. A similar vote in France in
2006 led to a major
diplomatic row between the two countries.
FEARS OVER ALIENATING
RUSSIA
Given the sensitivity to charges of crimes against
humanity in today's
Russia, the self-appointed successor state of the Soviet
Union, many
Western nations are cautious about offering any official
acknowledgement
of the Holodomor.
Numerous resolutions have been
passed sympathetic to the claims of
genocide, but international legislation
recognising the Holodomor remains
largely elusive.
President
Yushchenko has called on foreign governments to recognise it as
genocide in
time for the beginning this November of a year of memorial
events to mark the
75th anniversary of the tragedy, but few appear ready to
do so.
Denial
laws similar to those in place across the EU governing denial of the
Jewish
Holocaust could only be introduced once official recognition for
Ukraine's
Holodomor has been granted.
However, with recognition within Ukraine
already achieved in November
2006, there are no legal constraints which could
act as barriers to the
introduction of denial laws domestically.
REOPENING THE DEBATE?
In light
of the highly charged political debate surrounding the Ukrainian
Holodomor,
it will not be long before any new denial legislation is put to
the
test.
Apologists for the Soviet regime have repeatedly claimed that the
famine,
while acknowledged as a real historical event, was in fact a product
of a
number of factors and was not a systematic genocide perpetrated
specifically
against the Ukrainian people.
With support in Ukraine
relatively high for pro-Russian politicians and
resistance to attacks on the
Soviet past still robust, there will likely be
no shortage of activists and
academics prepared to test any new denial laws
by contradicting the official
government line over the Holodomor publicly.
Whereas Holocaust denial is
largely the preserve of minority extremist
groups in most Western countries,
millions of Ukrainians still refuse to
adopt the official government position
that the Soviet authorities willfully
ordered the destruction of the
Ukrainian population. The size of this
constituency would appear to pave the
way for large scale opposition to the
plan.
The irony is that any new
laws will doubtless be attacked as infringements
on Ukraine's new-found
freedoms of speech by the same political forces
which previously fought to
curtail press and public freedoms.
Advocacy groups throughout the Muslim
world have successfully attacked
Western perceptions regarding freedom of
speech by pointing out the
contradictions inherent in Europe's widespread
Holocaust denial laws, and
there is every reason to believe that Kremlin
loyalists in Ukraine and
across the former Soviet Union would use any new
Holodomor denial
legislation to undermine the moral stance of the
pro-democracy camp.
Sergiy Ilyin, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Communist
Party in Donetsk,
slammed the idea of Holodomor denial laws, commenting,
"Yushchenko has
no right to impose his way of thinking on entire nations.
There was famine
but to see the hand of Moscow in engineering it is
wrong.
"Genocide cannot be recognised in this way. If governments can do
this, then
the policy of the United States towards the indigenous American
Indian
population can equally be labeled an act of genocide."
LEGAL COMMUNITY HESITANT
Lawyers
are also unsure over the plans to introduce anti-denial
legislation.
Sergei Konnov, the Senior Partner at Kyiv's Konnov &
Sozanovsky law firm,
comments, "If the President wants everyone in Ukraine to
have the same
opinion about the Holodomor then he should try to educate
people about the
historic facts, but not punish those who do not agree that
it was the result
of Moscow policy against Ukraine.
"By all means
explain the facts to anyone in doubt but don't send them to
court.
Criminalising denial of the Holodomor would demonstrate that Ukraine
is still
not ready to be a truly civilised country. Or at least its leaders
are
not."
Konnov's colleague Ronald G. Marks adds, "In a democracy, the
people
'hold the stick', and in some countries they have used it to 'beat'
the
politicians into passing anti-holocaust denial laws.
"I can't
imagine a democracy in which the president would force the
population into
living under such a law, where there is no demonstrable
evidence that a
compelling majority have demanded such a restriction on
civil
liberty."
Beyond the argument about the need for Holodomor denial
legislation is the
issue of priorities, and there is a further debate about
how urgent the
issue is given the very real practical problems facing the
country.
Alex Frishberg of Frishberg & Partners attorneys summed up
this sentiment,
commenting, "Ukraine's President should be focusing on
economic and
corruption issues (particularly in the judicial sphere) rather
than seeking
to appease the nationalists with a populist measure like
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. UKRAINE: TRUTH ABOUT
HOLODOMOR IN KHERSONOBLAST TO BE REVEALED IN EARLY
2008
The Day Weekly Digest #30, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tue,
October 30, 2007
KYIV - In February 2008 the residents of Kherson oblast
will become widely
acquainted with the latest materials on the Holodomor
tragedy of 1932-33.
This announcement was made by the governor of Kherson
oblast Borys
Sylienkov, as he commented on the Oct. 24 session of the
Coordinating
Council, which has been tasked with preparing measures dedicated
to the
75th anniversary of the Holodomor, Liga reports.
Sylienkov said
that the work of the Coordinating Council, created by
presidential decree on
March 14, 2007, has enabled researchers to reveal the
whole truth about the
Holodomor of 1932-33, which "raged in Kherson region
too.
Ukrainian
society must consolidate around its own history," said the
governor, who
added that "for 75 years the Communist Party concealed the
tragic truth and
spread propaganda that there was no Holodomor in our
region.
Thanks to
the president's position, confirmation of tens of thousands of
deaths as a
result of the genocide of 1932-33 was found in the archives.
Many unmarked
graves were discovered.
We have published information about the Holodomor
in the Kherson lands
based on evidence provided by eyewitnesses and
disseminated it among
local communities," the governor of Kherson oblast
emphasized.
According to Sylienkov, the truth about the events connected
to the
Holodomor must be conveyed first and foremost to the communities
of
southern and eastern Ukraine.
"Following in the footsteps of
historians and researchers in Kharkiv oblast,
the residents of Kherson oblast
will be widely familiarized with materials
on the study of the Holodomor of
1932-33," he summarized.
On Oct. 23 President Yushchenko arrived on a
working visit to Kharkiv
oblast, where he chaired a session of the
Coordinating Council to prepare
measures dedicated to the 75th anniversary of
the Holodomor.
The main goal of the council is to draft proposals for
coordinating tributes
to the Holodomor victims, which will be organized by
the Ukrainian
government, and academic and social
institutions.
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. 2008 DECLARED AS NATIONAL YEAR
OF HOLODOMOR
REMEMBRANCE BY PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE, STATES
NEED
TO RESTORE HISTORICAL TRUTH ABOUT SOVIET-ERA
FAMINE
New Europe, Brussels, Belgium, Monday, October 29,
2007
BRUSSELS - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said he was going
to
propose a bill criminalising the denial of the Holodomor and Holocaust,
instructing Ukraine's central and local authorities to hold events on
November 24, 2007 to honour the victims of the Soviet-era famine and mark
its 75th anniversary, according to a press statement from the Mission of
Ukraine to the EU, released to New Europe on October 2.
Ukrainians
all around the world will again light candles to pay tribute to
the victims
of the 1932-1933 Great Famine and political repressions, he
added.
NATIONAL YEAR OF HOLODOMOR
REMEMBRANCE
The year 2008 should be declared as a national
year of Holodomor
remembrance, Yushchenko said during the second meeting of
the
Holodomor Commemoration Coordinating Council in Kharkiv on
October 23.
Yushchenko said it was important to restore the
historical truth about the
country's Soviet-era famines. "Time demands that
we honour the historical
truth, with no wrath but in sorrow," he said,
adding that the Ukrainian
people's appreciation of those tragic events was a
test showing whether
Ukrainians will ever become a real nation.
The
head of state underlined that the Ukrainian villages had more victims
because of Famine then of the IIWW, Interfax reported.Yushchenko said
Ukraine must "take key steps" in honouring the victims of those man-made
famines in 2007-2008, seventy-five years after them.
"If we don't say
a truth about years of 1932-33, it would be very difficult
for us to find an
answer what is good or what is evil".
NATIONAL MEMORY BOOK
He said it was crucial to
publish a National Memory Book with the names of
each victim and each
village and town hit by the famine.
This book must become a "core" of the
Holodomor Memorial which is expected
to be unveiled next autumn, he said.In
1932-1933 an unprecedented famine
struck Ukraine - a country, which was
previously known as the "Breadbasket
of Europe".
Unlike in numerous
cases of famines in European history, caused by natural
disasters, bad
harvest, or consequences of wars, Ukrainian famine of
1932-1933 was an
artificial measure, undertaken by the regime of Joseph
Stalin within the
implementation of the Soviet project.
This policy implied practical
elimination of national ideas and identities
that could have impeded the
creation of the Soviet state on the vast
territories of many nations, which
had been earlier seized by Russian empire
and failed to maintain their
independence in the struggle with the
Bolsheviks - the virtual successors of
tsarist imperialism.
Ukraine, which after long sanguinary battles for the
statehood was captured
by Bolsheviks and joined the Soviet Union as
Ukrainian Socialistic Soviet
Republic in 1922, still remained a country with
strong national traditions
and European social model.
The 20 years of
the last century were marked by a new wave of Ukrainian
cultural revival
under the paradoxical leadership of the Communist party of
Ukraine.
The national traditions of Ukrainian society and autonomist
tendencies
demonstrated by the leadership of Soviet Ukraine could not have
possibly
coexist with the Stalinist vision of the Soviet future.
FAMINE WAS NO ACCIDENT
Thus,
Ukraine was condemned.The Famine of 1932-1933 was by no means
an accident. Quite opposite, it was the result of systemic totalitarian
state
terror by starvation - in other words, the result of
genocide.
The mass physical extermination of Ukrainian farmers by
artificially caused
starvation to death was a deliberate act of political
system against
innocent civilians, the statement said.
It led not
only to disappearance of a whole stratum of wealthy and
economically
independent farmers-entrepreneurs, but whole generations
of rural population, it explained.
In 1932 the Soviet dictator Josef
Stalin ordered his government to seize
crops from Ukrainian peasants in a
campaign to collect money for
industrialisation and militarisation of
USSR.
Kremlin raised Ukraine's grain procurement quotas by 44 percent. In
practice, this meant that the harvest, which was extremely rich that year,
was to be completely deprived from the peasants in order to execute the
directives of Moscow.
CREATING
COLLECTIVE FARMS
This was also a way to destroy traditional
agriculture culture and create
kolkhoz type agriculture. This resulted in
famine with between seven to 10
million Ukrainians, mostly peasants,
starving to death in the very country
known as "the breadbasket of
Europe."
At the same time the grain was exported to obtain funds for
military buildup
and speedy industrialisation.Only in 1933 Soviet regime
dumped 1.7 million
tonnes of grain on Western markets.
Soviet
officials, with the aid of regular troops and secret police units,
waged a
merciless war against peasants. Even indispensable seed grain was
forcibly
confiscated from households.
Any man, woman, or child caught taking even
a handful of grain from a
collective farm was to be executed or deported.
Those who did not appear
to be starving were often suspected of hoarding
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. DONETSK OBLAST GOVERNOR CONSIDERS
DISASSEMBLING
MONUMENTS AND MEMORIAL SIGNS TO THOSE WHO
PARTICIPATED IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE HOLODOMOR
OSTROV, Provider: Research Center of Donbass Social
Perspectives
Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, October 30, 2007
KYIV - The
Donetsk oblast governor, Vladimir Logvinenko, gave
an assignment to the heads of regional administrations and city executive
councils to prepare and submit for consideration the issue on dismantling
of monuments and memorial signs devoted to persons who participated
in the organization of Golodomor in 1932-1933 in Ukraine.
This was
talked about at the governors' meeting with heads of regional
administration,
chief of law-enforcement bodies of the Donetsk oblast.
Vladimir
Logvinenko noted that for the due honoring of Golodomor victims,
there
shouldn't be preserving of old soviet paraphernalia of
Bolshevik
system.
Due to that, the city heads and regional
administrations have been
scheduled to consider at their sessions 'Issues
connected with installation
of memorial signs, crosses and other objects in
places of mass people's
death because of famine.
The next issue was
disassembling of monuments and memorials for the people
who participated in
organization and performing the Famine of 1932-1933 in
Ukraine, renaming
streets, squares, avenues, parks and settlements of the
Donetsk oblast, which
are related to such
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. UKRAINE PRES YUSHCHENKO
CRITICIZES AUTHORITIES FOR INSUFFICIENT WORK OVER PERPETUATION
OF
MEMORY OF VICTIMS OF 1932-1933
FAMINE
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine,
October 23, 2007
KHARKIV - President Viktor Yuschenko has criticized
authorities for
insufficient work over perpetuation of memory of 1932-1933
Famine.
The president disclosed this in Kharkiv taking floor at the
second meeting
of the Coordination Council for the issues on preparations
for the 75th
anniversary of 1932-1933 Famine.
"You do not correspond
to requirements of the society," Yuschenko said
addressing participants of
the meeting. He marked that worthy perpetuation
of memory of the Famine is
one of the obligations of the power.
"There has not been a more
considerable tragedy than Ukrainian Famine in the
whole world," the
president said. He also marked that the Famine took lives
of more people
than the number of people killed in WWII.
According to the president, the
Famine brought not only death to Ukrainian
lands, but also fear people have
lived with for 75 years, earthliness,
amorality and lawlessness. "Why don't
ministries having any reference to
this tragedy work?" he
said.
Yuschenko made an example of Kharkiv region, where monuments to
Famine victims are not located in all districts.
At the same time, the president marked insufficiency of efforts of
archives,
schools, historians, press and film industry on perpetuation of
memory of
the tragedy.
"Tomorrow, a decree will be drafted to make
order in the district, where
nothing has been done," Yuschenko said. The
president urged all
representatives of the government to take all necessary measures to
fully
pay tribute to the memory of Famine victims.
As Ukrainian News
earlier reported, in 2006, the Verkhovna Rada declared the
1932-1933 Famine
as the genocide of Ukrainian people. On November 25[date
should be November
24] , Ukraine pays tribute to the victims of famines and
political
repressions.
In 1932-1933, the famine took lives of 3-7 million people. Besides, a
number
of historians say that there were other famines in 1921-1923 and in
1946-1947.
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. HEAD OF PRESIDENTIAL
SECRETARIAT VIKTOR BALOHA WARNS REGIONAL GOVERNORS THEY MAY BE REPLACED
IF
THEY IGNORE PRESIDENTS ORDER TO PERPETUATE
MEMORY
OF THE VICTIMS OF THE 1932-1933
FAMINE IN UKRAINE
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, October 26, 2007
KYIV - The Presidential Secretariat's head Viktor Baloha has warned
regional
governors that they may be replaced if they ignore President
Viktor
Yuschenko's directive on perpetuating the memory of the victims of
the
1932-1933 famine in Ukraine. The presidential press service announced
this
in a statement, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained.
At the
same time, Baloha considers fair and timely the disciplinary measures
that
were taken against the regional governors that are not
satisfactorily
implementing Yuschenko's decree on preparation for measures
for
commemorating the 75th anniversary of the famine.
According to
Baloha, Yuschenko said during a meeting of the coordinating
council on
preparation for a ceremony that will honor the victims of the
famine that
certain senior regional officials were indifferent to this
historical
tragedy.
"They attempted to throw dust in the eyes of the President, but
this attempt
was in vain. The criticism that he voiced in Kharkiv regarding
regional
leaders did not hang in the air. The reprimands that were issued
today
should serve as a palpable inoculation against apathy," the press
service
quoted Baloha as saying.
Baloha also believes that painstaking
work is necessary for restoration of
historical justice. At the same time,
Baloha warned regional governors
against imitation of work on measures for preparation for the anniversary
of the famine.
"Any window dressing or insincerity will require
adequate personnel
decisions. The tragedy of the people is not a reason for
loud reports. The
pain and sorrow of those cruel years should be recognized
by the current
and future generations of Ukrainians," Baloha said.
He also said
that Yuschenko intended to personally oversee the preparation
for
commemoration of the anniversary of the famine.
"If bureaucrats allow themselves to have a depreciating attitude
to
presidential directives and orders, they will not get away with
reprimands
alone," Baloha said.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported,
Yuschenko has asked the heads of 10
regional administrations to bring to
account officials in charge of
preparation of the events commemorating the
75th anniversary of the
1932-1933 famine in Ukraine.
Yuschenko earlier
criticized officials for insufficient work on perpetuation
of the memory of
the 1932-1933 famine. Yuschenko has declared 2008 as
the year of remembrance of the victims of the 1932-1933 famine in
Ukraine.
Ukraine will honor the memories of the victims of famines and
political
repression on November 25. Between 3 million and 7 million people
died in
the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine, according to various estimates.
Moreover,
according to several historians, there were famines in Ukraine in
the
1921-1923 and 1946-1947
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. COMMUNIST PARTY SAYS
RENAMING OF STREETS & MONUMENTS IN UKRAINE WITH SOVIET
NAMES IS
TOTALITARIANISM
Ukrainian News Agency,
Kyiv, Ukraine, Fri, November 2, 2007
KYIV - The Communist Party believes
that the renaming of streets, squares,
and monuments that bear Soviet names
is a manifestation of totalitarianism.
The press service of the party
announced this in a statement, a text of
which Ukrainian News
obtained.
The press service said that the Presidential Secretariat's head
Viktor
Baloha sent to regional and district administrations on October 6 the
letter
No. 02.02/3262 in which he demanded that the administrations provide
the
Presidential Secretariat with a list of population centers, monuments,
streets, squares, parks, and squares named after events and activists of the
Soviet era.
According to information from the Communist Party, the
heads of regional
administrations have demanded that the relevant districts
and cities provide
such information by 12:00 on November 5.
Serhii
Hmyria, a parliamentary candidate for the Communist Party, suggested
that
officials who failed to fulfill this demand would be dismissed.
The
Communist Party believes that the Presidential Secretariat demanded a
list
of facilities with Soviet names with the aim of renaming them.
'According
to the laws of Ukraine, only members of one territorial community
or another
have the right to decide which names that are acceptable for
which
monuments. Why then are Yuschenko and his restless deskman
attempting to usurp this integral constitutional right of citizens,' the
statement
said.
The Communist Party believes that the actions of the
Presidential
Secretariat and President Viktor Yuschenko should be taken to
the people's
court.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Kyiv
municipal administration's
commission for renaming of streets and erection
of monuments and memorial
plaques is initiating renaming of 131 streets with
Soviet
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. HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR WILL
REVISIT CAVE IN UKRAINE THAT HID FAMILY FROM
CERTAIN DEATH
More than 60 years after surviving the
Holocaust by hiding,
Yetta Katz will return to the caves where she spent 344
days.
Holocaust Survivor's Journey: By Jennifer Lebovich
Miami
Herald, Miami, Friday, Sat, Nov. 03, 2007
MIAMI - The depths of a
Ukrainian cave shielded Yetta Katz and her
family from almost certain death during the Holocaust.
She spent 344
days -- from May 5, 1943, to April 12, 1944 -- in the dank
space, sleeping
between her sister and mother for warmth and cooking
meager meals of potato
soup.
TRAVEL TO CAVE IS PART OF A FILM
DOCUMENTARY
In May, Katz, now 84, is set to travel back to
the Ukraine and Priest's
Grotto, the 77-mile-long cave where her family and a
few others lived out
the war, as part of a film documentary.
''I am
very sad to go to the city where my friends were, where my neighbors
were,''
Katz said at her Hallandale Beach condominium, where she spends
half the
year. The rest of the time she lives in Montreal.
"It's a terrible thing
to go through such a horror. I don't feel good to go
there. It will hurt me a
lot. . . I don't know how I will go in those
caves.''
Before the war,
Katz (born Stermer) lived in Korolowka, Ukraine, with her
mother, father,
three brothers and two sisters. When the war broke out,
about 500 Jewish
families came under German occupation.
As the Nazis began killing Jews in
the town, Katz's family went into hiding.
They took spots under the roof of
the family's home and in other villages.
Then the Nazis rounded up the
Jews from two towns into a ghetto, but
Katz's mother, Esther, believed this
meant death for her family. She told
her oldest son to find a place in nearby
caves, a tourist attraction before
the war.
But the first cave where
they made a home for 150 days had no potable
water or ventilation to cook,
and living out the winter was trying.
As the spring thaw came, Germans
found potatoes and onions near the cave
that the men had tried to haul back
at night, giving away the secret of the
families inside.
FLED THROUGH TUNNEL
The Gestapo
came, threatening to kill those inside, and they fled through
an emergency
tunnel the family had dug.
The families, including small children,
searched for a new place -- some
hiding under the roof of a farmhouse --
while the young men in the group
went looking for somewhere else to conceal
them. A local hunter told the
men a fox had run into a hole in a field and
there might be a spot to hide.
''They went with ropes and candles to see
what was there,'' Katz said. They
came upon a spot of earth and began to dig.
It turned out to be Priest's
Grotto, one of the largest caverns in the
world.
''They got so excited for the first time in six months,'' she
said. The men
took the families -- 38 people in all -- to the
cave.
Each family brought some things for survival -- her family brought
a pot, a
small stove, tools and candles. It was the last time Katz saw the
light of
outside for nearly a year.
Recently, Katz has had flashbacks
of her horrific experience because the
hurricane shutters on the condo next
door block the afternoon sun and part
of the view of the sky. ''For so many
days I didn't see the daylight, now
not to see the sun,'' she
said.
''It's terrible,'' she said. ''I've suffered so much. I didn't see
the
daylight.'' While in the cave, they slept more than 20 hours a
day,
cooking the few potatoes and water they had into soup. Sometimes,
Katz
would sing Polish songs.
The men would go out foraging every five
or six weeks, bringing back grain
and wood. ''We weren't scared, we were
together,'' Katz said.
"What could we do? All our village had been
killed. We didn't think about
it. We couldn't worry what would happen. We
were together.''
They lived in the cave until April 12, 1944, when a
Ukrainian family living
in the woods left a message in a bottle at the cave:
The Russians had come.
''We came out, full of mud, and walked to the
city. All of the houses were
broken,'' she said, pausing for a moment. Tears
come to her eyes as she
points to glossy photos of her children and
grandchildren from her
grandson's wedding.
"Because of my brothers, I
survived and my two grandchildren got married.''
After the war, her family
went to a displaced person's camp in Germany.
That's where she met her
husband, Abraham Katz, who died 18 years ago.
They married in Munich,
Germany, and she had her daughter, Faye Gallat,
in 1947. Two years later the
family moved to Montreal.
MIRACLES
''So many miracles and coincidences
occurred for them to survive,'' said her
son, Saul Katz. Katz's children will
make the trip back to the Ukraine with
her in May.
When the families
left the cave, they left behind some of their
belongings -- shoes, keys, pots
and pottery. In 1993, New Yorker Christos
Nicola was exploring with a
Ukrainian caver when he found some of the shoes,
a millstone and earthen
steps in the cave, indicating people might have
lived there.
He heard
stories from local farmers that Jews lived in the cave during the
war and
spent years trying to find out if people really lived there and
tracking down
the families. About 10 years later, a relative of one of the
survivors
contacted Nicola over the Internet.
Since then, Nicola has recorded hours
of interviews with them and cowrote
the book "The Secret of Priest's Grotto:
A Holocaust Survival Story,"
telling the story of life in the
cave.
''They only had light in the form of kerosene or candles two or
three times
a day for no longer then a few minutes,'' said Nicola, who has
gone inside
the caves with family members of those who
survived.
"Temperature of 52 degrees, 100 percent humidity. If you're not
properly
dressed [a person] can become hypothermic . . . People ask how
they
survived. They taught themselves. They weren't afraid to think outside
of
the
box."
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Photos: Jared Lazarus/Miami Herald Staff: Holocaust survivor Yetta
Katz, 84,
of Hallandale Beach, hid in underground caves in the Ukraine for
two years
during World War II. Here, she wipes away tears when talking
about how her
neighbor's room addition on the balcony (in the background)
blocks her view
and light, and makes her feel like she's in a cave
again.
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. UKRAINE PRESIDENT ORDERS
RETURN OF 700 TORAH
SCROLLS CONFISCATED BY COMMUNIST
GOVERNMENT
By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz
Correspondent, Israel, Sun, Oct 28, 2007
Ukrainian President Viktor
Yushchenko signed last week a presidential order
to return an estimated 700
Torah scrolls confiscated from Jewish communities
during the Soviet Union's
Communist rule. The decision is seen as an attempt
to mollify Jewish and
Israeli opinion in advance of a visit to Israel by
Yushchenko next
week.
The issue of state-held Torah scrolls has touched many nerves over
the last
year. The Jewish communities in Kiev and Zhitomir have been using
scrolls on
loan from the government, but, a few months ago, the state archive
in Kiev
demanded the return of the scrolls, citing misuse.
Ukrainian
Chief Rabbi Moshe Asman, who has connections in the President's
office,
intervened, and the local synagogues were allowed to continue using
the
scrolls. Simultaneously, efforts were made to recover all the estimated
700
scrolls confiscated by the Communist authorities in Ukraine, culminating
in
Yushchenko's order on Wednesday.
Yushchenko incurred the anger of Jewish
activists two weeks ago after
honoring a Ukrainian nationalist who was also a
virulent anti-Semite, and
his latest step is seen as an attempt to improve
relations before his visit
to Israel next month.
The countries of the
Soviet Union, especially Russia and Ukraine, still hold
considerable cultural
and religious treasures - both those confiscated by
the Communists and those
that were pillaged by the Nazis during World
War Two and captured later on by
the Red Army.
Israeli attorney Mordehai Tzivin, who is active in cases of
restitution of
Jewish cultural property, said that "we should praise
President Yushchenko
for taking the feelings of the Jewish people in
consideration, this was a
brave move by him. We hope that other nations of
the former Soviet bloc
will take the same attitude and return the Jewish
treasures they are
still
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. UKRAINE: UGLY FACE OF
EMERGING EXTREMISM
Peter Dickinson, Business Ukraine
Magazine
Business Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, October 29, 2007
For
centuries Ukrainian nationhood was suppressed and even erased.
Its
renaissance over the past twenty years is to be broadly welcomed,
but urgent
action needs to be taken to rein in an extremist fringe
which has interpreted
this renewed sense of identity as license for
appalling excesses
Last
week's Champions League football clash between Dynamo Kyiv and
Manchester
United saw yet more violent clashes between visiting fans
and local
hooligans. Manchester supporters were apparently identified
at isolated
locations and systematically attacked by well-organised
gangs of skinheads
who inflicted serious injuries, leaving many fans
in need of hospital
treatment.
This follows on from similar scenes of coordinated violence
that
accompanied the visits of the Scottish national football team
and
Glasgow Celtic over the past year.
HOOLIGAN SMOKESCREEN FOR XENOPHOBIA
Football
violence in itself is not a Ukrainian disease, of course,
but given the
extent of similar unprovoked attacks on physically
recognisable foreigners in
Ukraine over the past few years, it is clear
that a dangerous culture of
xenophobic violence is emerging from
the shadows.
Earlier this month
on the same day that ultra-nationalists joined a mass
march in favour of
recognising the WWII-era UPA Ukrainian Insurgent
Army, a Bangladeshi man was brutally murdered in Kyiv in an apparent
racially motivated attack, while three Chinese girls were stabbed in a
separate incident.
Ukrainian officials are loathe to admit that this
rising tide of violence
against foreigners is racially or nationalistically
motivated, preferring
to categorise all such attacks as common hooliganism,
but the organised
nature of the violence and numerous eye-witness accounts of
individual
attacks, citing large groups of teenagers screaming racial
epithets,
would seem to confirm that this is a far bigger and more sinister
issue
than simple youthful excess.
RECRUITING THE DISAFFECTED
Kyiv's skinhead
community, although embryonic compared to the alarming
underground culture in
neighbouring Russia, is growing, and the number
of ultra-nationalistic
pseudo-political organisations that offer
the shield of respectability to
angry young men is also on the rise.
They do not have to struggle hard to
find potential recruits in the
ideological laboratory that is today's
Ukraine.
Young Ukrainians with few personal prospects and a smoldering
resentment
at the perceived third-class status they are afforded in western
Europe
make for enthusiastic recruits, while the highly uneven distribution
of
Ukraine's new-found wealth only adds to the resentment.
The lack of
any previous interaction with non-Europeans has also served
to heighten
racial tensions since the appearance of an international
community in the
1990s.
EMBASSIES FORCED TO TAKE
ACTION
Taken together, these factors make for a potent,
potentially deadly
cocktail and the results have been explosive. No matter
how long
the Ukrainian government turns a blind eye to the problem, there is
no
denying that it has already impacted on perceptions of the
country.
International organisations in Kyiv now routinely notify staff
and
other members of the international community ahead of planned
marches
by nationalist groups.
Many embassies have taken to advising
non-white members of staff
to avoid certain areas and try not to get caught
alone at night
anywhere in the city.
Non-European ambassadors who
previously relished the strolling culture
of the Ukrainian capital are now
reluctant to set foot outside without
protection.
It is only a matter
of time before the wider world starts to view Ukraine
through the prism of
racial hatred and xenophobia.
Ultimately this damaging trend could pose a
threat to the opportunities
presented by Euro 2012. The coming football
championships represent
a chance for Ukraine to demonstrate just how
progressive and European
this country really is, and also guarantees a
captive audience.
However, no matter how well the infrastructure
renovation plans proceed,
if visitors are subjected to violent attacks and
racial assaults, then
Ukraine will be slaughtered in the international media
as a backward,
savage land to be avoided at all costs. That may well be
exactly what
the thugs would like to see, but it is up to the authorities to
make sure
that the interests of decent Ukrainians are
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If you do not receive a copy of the AUR it is probably because of a
SPAM OR BULK MAIL BLOCKER maintained by your server or by
yourself on your computer. Spam and bulk mail blockers are set
in very
arbitrary and impersonal ways and block out e-mails because of words
found in many news stories or the way the subject line is organized
or
the header or who know what. There have also been difficulties with
hotmail and yahoo addresses not receiving the AUR.
Spam blockers also sometimes reject the AUR for other arbitrary
reasons
we have not been able to identify. If you do not receive some of
the AUR
numbers please let us know and we will send you the missing issues.
Please
make sure the spam blocker used by your server and also the one on your
personal computer, if you use a spam blocker, is set properly to
receive
the Action Ukraine Report (AUR).
HOTMAIL.COM AND
YAHOO.COM
We are also having serious problems with hotmail and
yahoo servers not
delivering the AUR and other such newsletters. If you
have an e-mail
address other than hotmail or yahoo it is better to use
that one for the
AUR.
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PUBLISHER AND EDITOR - AUR
Mr. E. Morgan
Williams, Director, Government Affairs
Washington Office, SigmaBleyzer, The
Bleyzer Foundation
Emerging Markets Private Equity Investment Group;
President, U.S.-Ukraine Business Council, Washington;
Trustee, Holodomor Education & Exhibition Collection
1701 K Street, NW, Suite 903, Washington, D.C. 20006
Tel: 202 437 4707
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