Remember Holodomor

On November 26th, 2011 Ukraine and Ukrainian diaspora in the world commemorated 79-th anniversary of Holodomor of 1932-1933 years. Holodomor was man-made famine and genocide and was organized by Joseph Stalin against Ukrainians, lived in USSR, on the modern territories of North, East, Central and South Ukraine (except Crimea and a part of Odesa region). The majority of Ukrainians lived in the villages, because their main occupation was agriculture. And Ukrainians were always very freedom-loved people and that's why J. Stalin decided to destroy Ukrainian nation and to create dictatorship in Soviet Union. In later autumn of 1932 Soviet regime began to take off all grain, any food, domestic animals in Ukrainian peasants to have harvest for Soviet Union, as chieves of that cruel state said. But indeed J. Stalin and his fellows specially killed Ukrainians, taking off their food and leaving them to die in the wintry time. Then special detachments were organized to go in the villages and to take off all possible provision, which was transpoted to direct places, guarded by policemen. These detachments searched in every corner of the rural houses, looking for a food. And even hungry people searched the rests of the vegetabgles on their fields in winter, these Soviet regime's workers killed that poor hungry people. And Ukrainian peasants died from famine...In the end of 1932 - on the beginning of 1933 Ukrainians gathered plants to cook some soup, ate birds, cats and everything that could be eaten, and it's terrible, but they sometimes ate their relatives, because it was horrible famine! The winter of 1933 was the cruelest period for Ukrainian peasants. In general Holodomor of 1932-1933 killed 3 millions 941 thousands people and 6 millions 122 thousands unborn babies in Ukraine.

24 countries have already recognized Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainians, organized by J. Stalin. Ukraine commemorates the victims of Holodomor'32-33 on the lasr Saturday of November. People light the candles in memory of Holodomor's victims in the homes and pray for them in the churchs. Pray that it won't be any holodomor in the world in the future.

The candles in the form of cross in memory of millions of Holodomor's victims (Lviv, 26.11.2011).

The words, formed with candles, "Пам'ятай голодомор" ("Remember holodomor").

What will be the points of Association Agreement EU-Ukraine?

The majority of Ukrainian politicians says much about a necessity of Association Agreement EU-Ukraine and nothing about points of the future Association Agreement (AA). So it's very strange situation for Ukrainians, when politicians want to sign important deal between Ukraine and EU, but Ukraine's citizens don't know the points of this deal.
Ukrainian people mostly have positive attitude towards European Union, and they have a right to know what will be written in the points of AA between two sides. And now they don't know it! It's something impossible! What will be written in the first point, in the second, in the third, in all points of Association Agreement EU-Ukraine? Politicians can't sign such and similar significant state deals, when nation isn't informed about deal's details.

Autumn in Lviv.

St. Mykhayil Greek Catholic Church.

Vyacheslav Chornovil monument and City Armory behind it.

Pidvalna Street, one of the borders of Medieval Lviv.

Grand Hotel with his autumnal friend-tree.

Autumnal contrasts in Stryyskyy park.

Rotonda in Ivan Franko park, the oldest park in Lviv.

Main path in Ivan Franko park.

Ivan Franko monument and autumnal leaves.

Upper part of Boyim's Chapel with Jesus Christ sculpture on the top and autumnal tree.

Lake in Stryyskyy park.

Autumnal trees near-by my house.

Yulia Tymoshenko

On October 11th, 2011 Pechersk court decided "Yulia Tymoshenko is guilty" in Russian-Ukrainian gas contract of January, 2009, signed with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. This contract is named unprofitable for Ukraine by present statemen and Y. Tymoshenko is announced guilty in money loss for state. According to court's decision ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko must stay in jail for next seven years and can't be stateman for three years after her jail's period, and she also must pay 1,5 billions hryvnyas as compensation to "Naftogas" (but what is this compensation for?...)
Yulia Tymoshenko didn't agreed to such court's verdict and Tymoshenko's lawyers prepare the appeal. Because what money loss did she make for Ukraine? Did she put some money from state budget on her personal account, or build house or buy private airplanes, yachts, etc., using state money? No.
Probably then, in January, 2009 it could be signed some better gas contract, but it's a question why besides Y. Tymoshenko anyone Ukrainian stateman didn't propose someone else gas contract. Why was this gas contract of January, 2009 not signed by Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian President of that time, if it was so important deal for state? And why was Viktor Yanukovych, oppositioner of that time, silent and didn't say nothing about bad side of that gas deal?
I hope that Ukrainian power is a few clever and will justify Tymoshenko. This needs not only for Ms. Yulia, but for all Ukrainian citizens and state power too.
Yulia Tymoshenko lost 3% to Viktor Yanukovych, present Ukrainian President, on the elections in February, 2010. Then she also didn't agree with the results of the presidential elections and asked for re-calculation of the votes in the electional districts where Tymoshenko's team fixed falsifications. But Central Electional District didn't decide to re-calculate the results of the elections and announced Viktor Yanukovych Ukrainian president. So V. Yanukovych is Ukraine's President less than two years. Surely, Y. Tymoshenko was and is his mainest opponent. So what did state power want? To put its opponents in the prison! And where is fair struggle between politicians or it's just a dream in Ukraine?

State power's decision without people's permission.

Since October, 2011 Ukrainian department of Unique State Register allowed to find a personal information of Ukrainian etrepreneurs on the special informational site. But Ukrainian etrepreneurs did't allow to put their personal informational dates on the Internet! So Ukraine's state power decided instead of them to make entrepreneurs' dates like free searched information for all. Nowadays entrepreneurs' mobile telephone numbers and phone numbers of their homes (as possibility to contact with entrepreneurs!), addresses of their homes and their firms' locations, their mails, even entrepreneurs' identificational codes can be found in the informational-searching resource's site of Unique State Register of Ukraine. But, of course, as everything happens in Ukraine according to a principle "law isn't equal for all", You can't find, for example, personal dates of the famous Ukrainian etrepreneur Rinat Akhmetov on this site. Sure, he and others richest Ukrainian citizens don't want and won't want to put their personal dates on the Internet, because there are personal dates. And everyone has a right to protect his/her personal information. Why did state power forget about it? Why did state power forget about its duty to protect own citizens? What is state power for in anoter case? It's just a great impudence! To put entrepreneurs' personal dates on the Internet without entrepreneurs' permission! Do You know such incident of human rights' violation in some democratic state?

Lustration as necessary step to democracy in Ukraine.

Ukraine needs a lustration of the former employees and cooperators of communist secret police in USSR. Similar lustration was held in Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Baltic States and such lustration must be held in Ukraine. People have a right to know who co-operated with secret police of that unhuman soviet regime. Ukraine may be really democratic state only after this lustration, when people will know a list of the names of these employees and co-operators of KGB in Ukraine. Because You know, Ukraine is young twenty-year-old state and who knows if some ex-employee or ex-co-operator of KGB continues to do something bad things in politics, economics or cultural and social life against Ukrainian citizens and state or not.

Nice and quiet Dubno, city in Rivne region.

Several weeks ago I visited nice and quiet city in Rivne region - Dubno. And here are some photos from this lovely place in Ukraine.

The gate and the bridge of Dubno castle - Ukrainian fortification of XVth century and the main sightseeing in the city.

Ancient castle' smithy.

Castle's cave and entrance in it.

Fortificated wall and ditch of Dubno castle.

Ostrozki princes' palace - one of the building of the historical complex "Dubno castle".

One of Dubno castle's towers.

St. Yan Nepomuk Catholic Cathedral - architectural monument of XIXth century.

St. Illya Orthodox Church, built in 1905.

Lutsk Gate - three-storey building which was important Dubno fortification.

St. Transfiguration Orthodox Church, the first Dubno Orthodox Church built in 1643.

Former Bernardine monaster, the oldest Dubno Church, built in the beginning of XVIIth century). Here is St. Mykolay Orthodox Church nowadays.


Interesting monument to Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko, which consists of the statue of young T. Shevchenko, old blind kobzar and little boy nearby.



House of Children's Creation (former Contracts's House) - architectural monument of XIXth century.

Some Ukrainian news

There are some news from Ukrainian reality.
Good news are prohibition to use former chapel by Dognal's sectarians as their church on Pluhova street in Lviv. I wrote earlyer about this new Ukrainian dangerous sect here: http://thoughtsanddreamsfromukraine.blogspot.com/2011/06/everyone-has-right-to-choose-religion.html
Another good news are complaints of 45 oppositional deputies from BYUT and "Front zmin" ("Front of changes") (the first signed deputies under complaints - Serhiy Sobolyev, Andriy Pavlovskyy from BYUT and Arseniy Yatsenyuk from "Front zmin") to Constitutional Court about non-recognition of the Law about Pension reform, because Pension reform was accepted in unconstitutional way on July 7th, 2011 - the number of present deputies wasn't equal to number of the deputies which voted for this reform! Present deputies in parliament were much less than the number of voted deputies on parliament's screen.
And other good news are appeals of Association of Ukrainian Banks and of BYUT's deputy Serhiy Teryokhin to National Bank of Ukraine to cancel Bank's decision about obligatory showing and copying! of the first page of Ukrainian passport for all who want buy or sell foreign currency in the places of currency exchange since September 23th, 2011.
And farce's news are news about some documents of the criminal deal against ex-Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, which are dated with unexisting date - April 31th, 2011! And three days ago Tymoshenko's lawyers also said that Tymoshenko's original signature wasn't on Ukrainian-Russian gas contracts of January 19th, 2009. There was only her facsimile. So it's a big question why she's in the prison now.

Palestine

Palestinian bid for full membership in the UN and for statehood is examining in these days in New York at the UN Assembly. I don't know what decision will be approved, but one day Palestinian state must be exactly created. Because the peace at the West Bank and in sector Gaza will come only when both nations, Israeli and Palestinians, will have their states and will form peaceful relations between each other. No war in the Holy Land anymore! I believe that as Palestinians thus Israeli want to live peacefully without military conflicts. And world must help them in it.

Possible EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.

All Ukrainian newspapers and TV-channels talk about possible EU-Ukraine Association Agreement (AA). But the majority of Ukrainians can't understand how EU may sign such AA with Ukrainian state power nowadays. Association Agreement gives development of political, trade, social, cultural and security links between two sides of the signed deal. And Ukrainians know that democratic values are very inportant in EU countries and that's why people want to join to the European Union. But how can such AA be signed in the present time?
When former Minister of the Ministry of Iternal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko is still arrested during almost nine months and former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko is still arrested during almost two months, though court doesn't prove their guilt yet, but all people know that these politicians are oppositional leaders towards present Ukrainian power.
Simple Ukrainians can't find job just to feed their families, while Ukrainian newspaper "Dzerkalo Tyzhnya"("The Mirror of the Week") wrote that "Chornomornaftohas" had overpaid 150 millions dollars from state budget for sea drilling rig in the Black Sea, so the real price for this drilling rig is much, much lower. While Ukrainian newspaper "Ukrayins'ka Pravda"("Ukrainian Truth") writes that Ukrainian President decided to rent two new airplanes for himself, also taking money from state budget. While informational agency UNIAN informed about 50 millions hryvnyas of state money, which were uneffectively used by National Television and Radio Companies, so this is a question where these money "traveled". And site "Nashi Hroshi" ("Our Money") reported about almost 260 millions hryvnyas of state money for the technical-material center's building of Lviv Employment Center. In Ukraine employment centers don't find any jobs for unemployeds and I really don't understand why these centers exist and are financed, but I'll write apart one article about Ukrainian employment centers.
So simple Ukrainians read such news and only think how it's possible just to live in Ukrainian state, when state power doesn't take care about them. Many Ukrainians have some relative which lives and works abroad and helps financially. But a few days ago National Bank of Ukraine obligated Ukraine's citizens to show their passports in currency exchange to buy or to sell even 1 euro, 1 dollar etc since September 23th, 2011. Yeh, it's "very nice" power's step to create a dictatorship in Ukraine.
And may it be signed Association Agreement between EU and Ukraine in such conditions of the Ukrainian reality?