Saturday 31 December 2011

Vaclav Havel

This 2011 year was difficult for many countries in the world. And many famous people had left our Earth forever in 2011. But in the last day of this year I would like to remember the great politician Vaclav Havel who died on December 18th, 2011.
In my country people say "we need our Ukrainian Havel" or "where is our Havel in Ukraine?". Because former Czech president, politician, dramatist and dissident Vaclav Havel was and is that example of possible humanity and moral in politics, which is necessary for real success in the politics of any country. Unfortunately many modern politicians forget about humanity and moral, they think that only power and money can do everything in the world, but Vaclav Havel showed us that it's not so. V. Havel fought against communism and dictatorship the first in Czechoslovakia and then all over the world. He always respected human rights and democracy. Vaclav Havel showed for all next politicians that moral and fair man can rule a country. Great man he was. World will always remember him.
And how Vaclav Havel said: "Truth and love must beat lie and hatred".

Friday 30 December 2011

Yulia Tymoshenko was moved in Kachanivka prison colony

On December 23th the Court of Appeal of Kyiv didn't approve the appeal of Yulia Tymoshenko's lawyers and didn't change Pechersk court's verdict of October 11th, 2011 about Tymoshenko's guilt. But Ukrainian power began another judicial deals against Tymoshenko, except the deal of Russian-Ukrainian gas contract's signing by Yulia Tymoshenko and Vladimir Putin in January, 2009, and these another judicial deals aren't closed nowadays. On December 29th Ukrainian Minister of Justice Oleksandr Lavrynovych said about a necessity of the end of all judicial trials in the deals against Tymoshenko, only after which Y. Tymoshenko could be moved in prison colony. Ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko has also problems with her health, especially with her spine, and she can't move normally. But this early morning, on December 30th, Y. Tymoshenko has already been moved in Kachanivka prison colony in Kharkiv region, though she couldn't go and Lukyanivska jail's workers carried her to the prison's car. Tymoshenko's relatives and lawyers, deputies of her party "Batkivshchyna" and many simple citizens of Ukraine say about illegality of these actions against Tymoshenko and about judicial deals against her in general. Nowadays all they worry the most if Yulia Tymoshenko will be alive and healthy during her staying in prison colony in Kachanivka.

Thursday 22 December 2011

Volodymyr Ivasyuk

On December 20th monument to Volodymyr Ivasyuk was opened in Lviv on Taras Shevchenko avenue. It's only a second monument in Ukraine, dedicated to this famous Ukrainian composer, poet, singer. The first Ivasyuk's monument is situated in his native city Kitsman in Chernivtsi region, where Volodymyr Ivasyuk was born in teacher's family on March 4th, 1949. Volodymyr Ivasyuk is author of 107 songs, 53 instrumental compositions, 2 musics for theatre's performances. He was professional violinist - studied to play on the violin during 1955-1966 in Kitsman children's musical school. He also studied to play on the piano there and could play on the guitar and on the viloncello. Volodymyr Ivasyuk gratuated Lviv Conservatory and Lviv Medical Institute. V. Ivasyuk painted pictures, enjoyed photography and cinematography too. He wrote his first song "Lullaby" in 15-year-old age! And his famousest songs "Chervona Ruta" ("Red Ruta") and "Vodohray" ("Waterfall") were the winners in the mainest songs' contest of USSR "Song-1971" and "Song-1972" in Moscow in 1971 and 1972 years accordingly.

Vasyl Zinkevych, Nazarij Yaremchuk and Volodymyr Ivasyuk and ensemble "Smerichka" perform a song "Chervona Ruta" in Moscow in 1971.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV_4XvldJw0

Ensemble "Smerichka" performs a song "Vodohray" in Moscow in 1972.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixc13mxL2i0&feature=related

And here Volodymyr Ivasyuk performs his own song "I'll go in the distant mountains".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XolO5uz8e34&NR=1&feature=endscreen

Another famous Ukrainian songs, written by V. Ivasyuk: "Fate Has Its Own Spring", "Song Will Be Between Us", "Ballade About Two Violins", "Ballade About Malvy", "I Am Your Wing", "Invite Me In The Dreams", "Hat", "Two Rings", "Uncontrolled Stream", "Love Blossoms Only One Time".

Volodymyr Ivasyuk died under strange circumstances. On April 24th, 1979 someone unknown called V. Ivasyuk, he went somewhere and didn't come back anymore. On May 18th 1979 he was found hung high on the tree in Bryukhovychi forest nearby Lviv. Who killed Ukrainian great talent Ivasyuk? Answer is unknown till nowadays.

Volodymyr Ivasyuk's monument in Lviv in the evening.

Saturday 10 December 2011

Dedicated to Human Rights Day

Ill prisoner lays on the bed in the jail's cell. Prisoner has a spine's pain and can't move normally. Judges come in the jail's cell and sit down on the chairs, bringing in the cell before their visit. Judges begin a judicial session over ill prisoner, though prisoner's lawyer says about bad health of the prisoner. Judicial session in the jail's cell is holding without journalists. Several times jail's doctors arrive in the cell to look how is prisoner's health and then they go away. And judicial session continues, though lawyer says that it's illegally and ask to stop it. Judicial session lasts more than 11 hours. And after all judges decide...to arrest arrested prisoner in the second time, so prisoner is re-arrested now! And judges don't write any period of the prisoner's arrest in their judicial decision. Judges go away from the jail's cell. Ill prisoner stays to lay on the bed in the cell without knowledge of the arrest's period before the announcement of the final judicial verdict.
Such judicial session was held over ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the prison's cell on December 9th. And Human Rights Day is celebrated in the world on December 10th...

Friday 9 December 2011

Strikes of Chornobyl liquidators.

Ukrainian Parliament decided to abolish privileges since 2012 year for 16 population's categories, including saviours of Chornobyl disaster on April 26th, 1986. That's why Chornobyl saviours began mass strikes in many Ukrainian cities. On November 27th 69-year-old Hennadiy Konoplyov, former miner and member of Donetsk protest against abolition of privileges for 16 people's categories, died during protest's dispersing, made by police. On November 30th in Kyiv Chornobyl liquidators began a starvation ahead the building of Parliament with a request to leave their privileges (additional payments). These saviours, people, who made worse their healths during a liquidation of the accident on Chornobyl atomic electrostation in 1986, so they need their privileges just to be able to buy medicine for themselves and to bring a few money in their families like its heads. If in the past Chornobyl liquidators could imagine, that after their hard work of disaster's liquidation they will not have state payments to buy medicine in the future, maybe they wouldn't go to liquidate Chornobyl accident. But...Who will ask simple people what they want? Soviet power didn't think about that people and just sent them as liquidatiors, though they often weren't saviours or liquidators by their profession. And present Ukrainian power also doesn't think about Chornobyl saviours, their healths and families. State power says: "There are no money for you". But at the same time Parliament's deputies don't want to abolish any privileges for themselves.
On December 9th Chornobyl liquidators protesting ahead Parliament have already stopped their starvations because of bad healths of many protestants and have gone home in the different Ukrainian cities from where they are. But they'll continue to protest against abolition of their state payments, because they have right to these payments and also haven't another way except a strike.