{"id":130520,"date":"2020-11-30T22:11:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T20:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=130520"},"modified":"2020-11-30T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T20:11:40","slug":"weekly-update-on-ukraine-42-23-29-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/weekly-update-on-ukraine-42-23-29-november","title":{"rendered":"Holodomor as a genocide, Europe\u2019s historical narratives, Best First Appearance and more \u2013 Weekly Update on Ukraine #42, 23 \u2013 29 November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Situation in the combat zone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Situation in the combat zone. <\/strong>On November 29, Russia-backed militants violated the ceasefire that came into effect on July 27, 2020, four times. Ukraine\u2019s Joint Forces recorded similar episodes throughout last week, a press statement released by the operation command said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 25, on the outskirts of Avdiivka a Ukrainian serviceman was fatally wounded by a hostile sniper, he died in hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tensions rise as the Trilateral Contact Group proceeds with talks. <\/strong>At the meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on November 25, Ukraine took to tougher negotiation tactics, a participant of the Group\u2019s political taskforce, journalist Serhiy Harmash said in a TV show aired on \u201cUkraina 24\u201d channel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo one gave Ukraine an ultimatum; it\u2019s rather that Ukraine started to talk to Russia in a stricter way,\u201d Harmash noted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Representatives of the Russian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group spoke in a sharp tone, the spokesperson for the Ukrainian delegation to the Group, Oleksiy Arestovych told \u201cApostrof TV\u201d. He said Russia seeks \u201cto completely destroy the Minsk agreements and the Normandy format\u201d. It all started when Leonid Kravchuk protested (to the Russian delegation) over the death of the Ukrainian soldier killed by a Russian sniper. Kravchuk wanted the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine to engage into the investigation of the incident, he also demanded that the Russian side holds the investigation and brings those liable to justice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe tones immediately grew sharp, that\u2019s how they had probably planned it. They started saying: Ukraine, confirm in writing that you leave the Minsk agreements, now. Are you ready for the escalation, and all the consequences? It went on like that,\u201d Arestovych proceeded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Holodomor as a genocide: what Ukrainians think<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the fourth Saturday in November, Ukraine commemorates the victims of the Holodomor \u2013 a series of famines that hit Ukraine in the 20th<\/sup> century. The deadliest one was in 1932-1933. At least 3.9 million Ukrainians died of starvation. Victims across the Soviet Union near seven million.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost two dozen states recognized the Holodomor as a genocide against Ukrainians. Still, the issue remains subject to heated discussions in academic circles and political debates, while some countries, particularly, Russia deny the genocide.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A majority of historians agree that the famine of 1932-1933 resulted from the forced requisition of grain, a repressive policy that the Soviet authorities undertook against the peasantry.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Debates on the number of victims.<\/strong> Ukraine\u2019s Institute of Demography and Social Research developed a methodology to assess Ukraine\u2019s losses caused by the Holodomor of 1932-1933, based on demographic statistical analysis of the data. The researchers recreated the population dynamics in Ukraine between 1926 and 1939. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Institute said the Holodomor victims were 3.9 million, the number is considered science-based.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do modern Ukrainians think?<\/strong> Eighty-two per cent of Ukrainians think that the Holodomor of 1932-1933 was an act of genocide against the Ukrainian nation. These are the results of a survey held by the Sociological Group Rating. Eleven per cent of the poll respondents said they do not support the definition, seven per cent were undecided. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Holodomor is seen as a genocide by 95 per cent of Ukrainians in the West, 87 per cent in the center, 72 per cent in the South, and 61 per cent in the East. The statement is widely supported by the rural residents, and to a lesser extent by urban Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seventy-three per cent said they will light a candle on the Remembrance Day for Holodomor Victims, 20 per cent said they will not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The survey was held between October 29 and November 4, 2019 embracing 3,000 respondents. The margin of error does not exceed 1.8 per cent. The Day of Remembrance for Holodomor Victims was started in 1998 by a decree of then President Kuchma. Since the early 2000s, light-a-candle action has been practiced on the day.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The surveys show that in Ukraine, support to recognition of the Holodomor as genocide keeps growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academic and political debates.<\/strong> Historians and politicians are not unanimous on whether genocide can apply to the Holodomor as a legal term cemented by the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even tough back in 1953, Dr. Raphael Lemkin who coined the term and initiated the Convention, said that the \u201cdestruction of the Ukrainian nation\u201d is \u201ca classic example\u201d of genocide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Holodomor was recognized a genocide of Ukrainians by 16 nations \u2013 Australia, Ecuador, Estonia, Canada, Colombia, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, the US, Hungary, Portugal, and the Vatican. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight more states \u2013 Andorra, Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Chile condemned the Holodomor as an act of mass extermination or commemorated millions of the victims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia recognized that the famine was caused by forced collectivization, but said other territories within the USSR had suffered too. \u201cThe tragedy does not match the internationally recognized criteria of a genocide, and should not be subject to modern political debate,\u201d a statement by Russia\u2019s State Duma reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Documents adopted by the UN, UNESCO, and PACE on Holodomor do not bear the word \u201cgenocide\u201d either. The resolution of the European Parliament of 2008 calls the Holodomor \u201can appalling crime against the Ukrainian people, and against humanity.\u201d The resolution also references the UN Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Europe\u2019s historical narratives of Ukraine: research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On November 26, at Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the Ukrainian Institute and One Philosophy consultancy presented the results of a survey they commissioned to see how European media covered key events of the 20th century through 2018-2019 that marked Ukraine’s role globally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Corestone Group applied content and contextual analysis on over 7,300 pieces in 44 media outlets in the UK, Germany, France, Poland, Ukraine, and Russia that highlighted the Holodomor, World War II, the Chornobyl disaster, democratization in former Soviet Republics, Ukrainian avant-garde and the Executed Renaissance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow the\u00a0link<\/a>\u00a0for more information on the survey findings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Culture: Ukrainian documentary awarded at IDFA as Best First Appearance <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The feature-length documentary \u201cThis Rain Will Never Stop<\/a>\u201d by Ukraine\u2019s Alina Horlova won the Award for Best First Appearance at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). The 20-year-old protagonist, Andriy Suleiman, was born in Syria to a Kurdish father and a Ukrainian mother. Fleeing from the war, the family moves to eastern Ukraine that after a while also becomes theatre of war. The black-and-white doc follows Andriy on his journey in Ukraine as a Red Cross worker, to Germany and Iraq where he visits his uncles, and finally to Syria, in what appears to be his father\u2019s final journey. The film is co-produced by Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, and Qatar.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is not the sort of walk-a-mile-in-my-shoes documentary designed to evoke empathy for one person\u2019s individual plight. Instead, it\u2019s a brave and uncompromisingly artistic attempt to outline the contours of a much larger, perhaps species-wide soul sickness: the psychological and philosophical displacement that war churns up in its wake,\u201d the \u201cVariety<\/a>\u201d review reads.\u00a0Critically acclaimed is also the doc\u2019s cinematography by Vyacheslav Tsvetkov. Check out the film\u2019s\u00a0trailer<\/a>\u00a0and the IDFA\u00a0jury statement<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How Ukraine is fighting COVID-19<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On November 30, Ukraine recorded 9,946 new coronavirus cases, 5,771 recoveries and 114 deaths. Data collected on weekends has been showing lower numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the pandemic, Ukraine has recorded 723,625 COVID-19 cases, 345,149 recoveries and 12,327 deaths from coronavirus complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coronavirus in the army. <\/strong>As of November 29, there are 2,975 active cases of coronavirus in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Latest daily tally reported that same day was 213. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lockdown prospect nearing.<\/strong> Prospects of the government imposing a national lockdown are being actively debated. Head of the parliamentary faction \u201cServant of the People\u201d (Sluha Narodu) Davyd Arakhamia said there is a 90 per cent chance that a tight lockdown would be imposed to slow the coronavirus spread. He added that the government is preparing a plan to introduce a \u201csmart lockdown\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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