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12TH CENTURY RELIC IN UKRAINE THREATENED |
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Alarming news has come from colleagues in Kyiv regarding the preservation of Ukraine's most important twelfth-century monument - the Church of St. Cyril of Alexandria (Kyrylivs'ka tserkva). Through a series of what appear to be deliberately devious actions it appears that the Church of St. Cyril, which was part of the Cultural Preserve of the Cathedral of St. Sofiia - a UNESCO site, has been deprived of its protective status and a free hand is being given to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOCMP) to remodel the interior of the monument... |
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January 20, 2007 |
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KHARKIV BANS AUTOCEPHALOUS ORTHODOX FROM WATER BLESSING ON THEOPHANY |
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On 12 January 2007, it became known that the Kharkiv City Administration (KCA) rejected the application of the Kharkiv-Poltava Eparchy of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), submitted on 28 December 2006, to allow priests of the UAOC to bless water on Theophany, 19 January, at one of the springs in Sarzhyn Yar. The Consistory of the UAOC considers such actions of the Kharkiv authorities, headed by Kharkiv Mayor Mykhailo Dobkin, as discrimination against the UAOC... |
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January 20, 2007 |
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RUSSIA, BELARUS END BRUISING DISPUTE |
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Russia and Belarus appeared to put an end to their acrimonious energy dispute on Friday, as Russian officials acknowledged that Moscow's reputation as a dependable energy supplier had been damaged. Moscow would cut its oil export duty from $180 to $53 per ton, after Belarus rescinded a transit fee that Russia had refused to pay, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said after meeting his Belarussian counterpart, Sergei Sidorsky... |
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January 20, 2007 |
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ESTONIA VOTES TO REMOVE SOVIET-ERA SYMBOLS |
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On Wednesday, January 10, the Estonian parliament adopted in the third and final reading a “Law on the Protection of War Burial Sites,” clearing the way for the long-awaited removal of the monument to the Liberating Soviet Soldier from downtown Tallinn and other obtrusive symbols of the Soviet occupation in public places. President Toomas Ilves signed the law on the following day... |
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January 20, 2007 |
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UOC-MP ORTHODOX REQUEST TO TRANSFER KYIV MONASTERY RECEIVES MIXED REACTIONS |
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The transfer of the museum part of the Kyivan Monastery of the Caves, requested by Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), will considerably aggravate interdenominational relations in Ukraine. So said Oleh Medvediev, vice-president of the Ukrainian League on Public Relations. nrcu.gov.ua posted the news on 9 January 2007... |
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January 20, 2007 |
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UKRAINE’S DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN PROSPECTS FOR 2007 |
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Ukraine's domestic and foreign prospects in 2007 depend upon the resolution of the political and constitutional crisis that began in 2006. Failure to resolve this ongoing crisis will lead to stagnation and a possible retreat from some of the gains of the Orange Revolution (see review of 2006 by Yulia Tymoshenko in Zerkalo Tyzhnia, December 30, 2006). This year will see the continuation of the Viktor Yanukovych government and the anti-crisis parliamentary coalition... |
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January 18, 2007 |
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LAND AWAITING EFFECTIVE OWNERS |
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Ukraine has 33 million hectares of farmland, and experts value them at more than 300 billion hryvnias, or some 60 billion dollars. These figures can be called into question, however, because no one has ever sold Ukraine's chornozem soils, the best in Europe and even the world, in market economy conditions. Ukraine's market economy status has a major... |
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January 18, 2007 |
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FACING THE FARMLAND ISSUE |
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Once again, Ukrainian lawmakers have passed a one-year moratorium on the sale of farmland, in what has turned into a never-ending delay in a major area of the county's market-economy reforms. President Viktor Yushchenko had vetoed the latest moratorium bill, arguing that it violated the property rights of rural residents... |
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January 18, 2007 |
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GOVERNMENT SCAMS ON THE RISE |
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At a recent meeting of the National Security and Defence Council, President Viktor Yushchenko, referring to VAT payments undelivered to the state, declared, "corruption had returned to Ukraine." The sad reality is that corruption has never left. It is pervasive and, despite government rhetoric to the contrary, is flourishing under the Yanukovych-administration... |
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January 18, 2007 |
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UKRAINE MAY OFFER ENERGY SOLUTION |
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In the wake of Ukraine’s announced plans to reduce its dependence on imported natural gas by using more coal for power generation, the country’s own enormous reserves of methane have been touted as a better alternative. The problem is finding a way to harness it. Ukraine is believed to be sitting on more gaseous fuel than its principal supplier of natural gas, Turkmenistan. Estimated reserves of 11 trillion–12 trillion cubic meters of coal-bed methane would give Ukraine... |
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January 18, 2007 |
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