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Borys Kosarev: Modernist Kharkiv, 1915-1931 at The Ukrainian Museum thru May 2, 2012
Posted by Wasyl Gorbachuk on April 13, 2000 at 01:53:49:
In Reply to: Не в газетті справа. posted by Янко on April 13, 2000 at 01:04:49:
: : It seems that somebody wants to increase its worlwide rating # 6 as Enemy of Journalists.
: Газета Kyiv Post читається вузьким колом іноземців та освічених людей, які й так нічого цензурного про кучманоїдів не думають. Газета не має впливу на масову громадську думку, і тому не є небезпечною режимові. Отже навряд чи ця акція є спробою закрити рота Kyiv Post. Я думаю, що це провокація, спрямована проти уряду Ющенка силами, що бояться багато втратити через його реформи. Думаю, безпосередня мета, яка переслідується -- це відміна візиту Олбрайт до Києва.
If they afford such a play, they probably have support of Russian mafia.
Ці сили
ведуть гру на межі: з одного боку вони зацікавлені аби Ющенко лишався на посту принаймні поки йде реструктуризація боргів, з іншого боку -- намагаються максимально сaботувати реальні реформи. Тобто все, що потрібно цим "господарям життя" -- це Ющенко як маска.
Why Ysuhchenko does not appoint new ministries who would help the government against such a sabotage?
Але відмовитися від цієї маски вони поки що не наважуються, як показує те, що Волков та Суркіс-Медведчук таки
Is it that Medvedchuk who was advocate in Vasyl' Stus processes in the 1980-s? Ukrainian poet Vasyl' Stus was nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature, but died the same year in jail.
підтримали зрештою прораму уряду. Реакція на цей інцидент Держдепартаменту США покаже, кого насправді підтримує Америка.
This is the article from the latest issue of that newspaper:
Who are the people writing unpublished articles?
Peter Byrne
Post Staff Writer
If one were to ask Western heads of state about the
upcoming referendum, they would grin thinly, wink, and
whisper to you on background that they would prefer not to
offend Ukraine.
They might even refer you to their hard-working envoys
in Kyiv, who are constantly quizzed and quoted by Ukrainian
media, which endlessly report on the prospects for
Euro-Atlantic integration. Some media, perhaps
inadvertently, have even led us to believe that Ukraine's
relationship with Europe and the United States is as
important to the West as it is to Ukraine.
The relationship is important, but less so than
diplomats would have us believe.
Like President Leonid Kuchma in Ukraine, European heads
of state preside over vast bureaucracies in their countries
representing state interests. But presidents and their
envoys come and go, policies change, and programs are
discontinued.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
(PACE) and the U.S. Congress, on the other hand, represent
public opinion, which is eternal. Although subject to
manipulation by government officials and lobbyists, public
opinion is - at least in Europe and the United States -
taken into account when governments make decisions.
No one believes that PACE deputies in Strasbourg will
censor or expel Ukraine any time soon. Even if they did,
Ukrainian democrats would likely convince Ukrainian patriots
that the cost of ignoring Western public opinion would
outweigh any benefits derived from preserving Ukraine's
present state of national integrity.
Conversely, the West's failure to address adequately
Ukraine's parliamentary shenanigans and the kooky referendum
scheduled for April 16 will only add fuel to the debate on
whether Euro-Atlantic institutions have mistakenly based
Ukraine's integration with Europe on geopolitical concerns
rather than adherence to democratic norms of civilized
behavior.
Of course, questions of integration should first be
debated and decided by Ukrainians themselves.
But according to observers from the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe, Helsinki Federation,
Committee to Protect Journalists, European Media Institute,
Freedom House, and, yes, even the Belarusian Association of
Journalists, coherent discussion about political issues is
not yet possible in Ukraine.
Citing incontrovertible evidence that a) public opinion
is greatly influenced by media and b) media are monopolized
in support of one point of view, foreign rapporteurs say the
facility of Ukraine's electorate to make informed decisions
is "impaired."
This state of affairs "concerns" Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic
partners, who appear increasingly testy when they attempt to
justify the billions of dollars lent and donated to
Ukrainian reformers over the years.
One sad fact is that while few Ukrainians doubt the
West's sincere resolve to help out in a pinch, fewer still
believe that assistance has been effective. For its part,
the United States, arguably Ukraine's most influential
benefactor after Russia, says it intends to stay the course
no matter what critics say.
Visiting public servants, such as John Tedstrom,
director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian affairs at the
U.S. National Security Council, say unpublished articles by
Western press are complicating Euro-Atlantic integration,
and were one reason why Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko
cancelled his visit to Washington earlier this month.
"You know better than I do how the dynamics of mass
media work in these political contexts," he informed readers
of Ukraine's most popular tabloid, Fakty, in an interview
published on March 29.
Two days later, in a letter published by Kievskie
Vedomosti, U.S. Secretary of State Madelaine Albright took a
swipe at "some people," who she said have floated the notion
that U.S. support for reforms might be on the wane.
"Some people in the Ukraine and in the U.S. have hinted
that the rescheduling of Prime Minister Yushchenko's visit
to the U.S. was caused by a lessening of our support for the
reform efforts undertaken by President [Leonid] Kuchma and
Prime Minister Yushchenko," she wrote.
Who are the people writing unpublished articles?
Was Tedstrom referring to the lobbyists and Russian
imperialists fingered recently by Ukrainian experts and
board members of some U.S.-financed non-governmental
organizations?
Did Albright have in mind anthropologists, who tell
congressmen that privatization programs and economic reforms
paid for by U.S. taxpayers have been more about wealth
confiscation than wealth creation?
Perhaps both were thinking of Arnold Beichman, a
research fellow at the Hoover Institute, who last week
called on the U.S. Congress to take the measure of 10 years'
assistance to the region, which he characterized as one of
the "most witless, most unpoliced and most mismanaged
international aid programs in modern history."
Peter Byrne is a staff writer for the Post.