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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 ISSUE No. 45 (1177)
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Photo By Dmytro DESIATERYK, The Day
“You can say
so many
things without
being rude”
An interview with Daria
Gaikalova, Bollywood’s
new Ukrainian-born star
director
Continued on page 6
Photo by Mykola TYMCHENKO, The Day
Energy jazz bands
Wise strength
Green innovations tested
at TeslaCamp in Kyiv
Continued on page 5
Patriarch Bartholomew: “The Mother Church did not
concede its canonical rights over Ukraine and has now
assumed the initiative of resolving the Ukrainian issue”
Continued on page 3

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No.45 SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
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By Nataliia PUSHKARUK, The Day
Russia is going to hold the
Vostok (East)-2018 military
exercise, the largest in the past
37 years, on September 11-15.
The war game will embrace the
territory of the Eastern (Trans-Baikal
and Far East) and Central (Volga
Region, Siberia, Urals) military
districts. The maneuvers will involve
almost 300,000 servicemen (a third of
the Russian army, BBC reports),
36,000 pieces of military equipment,
including armored personnel carriers
and tanks, more than 1,000 warplanes
and helicopters, Russia’s Defense
Minister Sergey Shoigu announced.
Chinese and Mongolian military
will join the exercise at a certain stage.
Beijing chose to send more than 3,200
servicemen, 900 pieces of military
equipment, and 30 aircraft to Russia,
the Voice of America reports citing China’s
Defense Ministry.
NATO’s spokesman Dylan White
said Russia is focusing on exercising
large-scale conflict, Radio Liberty reports.
“All nations have the right to exercise
their armed forces, but it is essential
that this is done in a transparent
and predictable manner,” White
said, adding that Russia has already
used its armed forces against the neighboring
countries, including Ukraine
and Georgia.
Minister Shoigu noted: “In some
ways [Vostok 2018] will repeat aspects
of Zapad (West)-81, but in other ways
the scale will be bigger.” That war
game, held in September 1981 by the
USSR and Warsaw Pact countries on
the territory of the Belorussian, Kyivan,
and Baltic military districts as well
as in the Baltic Sea waters with participation
of at least 100,000 servicemen,
is considered one of the biggest in
Soviet history. The military were exercising
an offensive operation, including
a likely invasion of Poland.
Asked by journalists at a briefing
why Vostok-2018 is of such a large
scale, the Russian president’s
A new demonstration of force
What do Russia’s biggest military exercises in almost 40 years
mean and what lessons should Ukraine learn from this?
spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “The
country’s ability to defend itself in the
current international situation, which
is often aggressive and unfriendly
towards our country, means [the exercise]
is justified, necessary, and
has no alternative” (ria.ru).
It will be recalled that Russia and
Belarus held Zapad-2017 exercises
last September, in which Russia says
13,000 servicemen took part. Yet
most of the Western experts insist
that the maneuvers involved far more
soldiers, with Germany’s Defense
Ministry claiming that there were at
least 100,000 of them. Meanwhile, the
media report that Russia is now showing
force in a different region – it is
deploying a flotilla of warships, the
largest since the beginning of the
war in Syria, in the Mediterranean Sea
along that country’s coast.
The Day requested some experts to
comment on what this show of military
force by Russia means.
● “UKRAINE IS ESSENTIALLY
LAGGING BEHIND IN THE
BUILDUP OF ITS DEFENSE
CAPABILITY”
Valentyn BADRAK,
director, Center for Army, Conversion,
and Disarmament Studies:
“On the one hand, Russia in fact
got ready for a full-scale invasion of
Ukraine 1.5-2 years ago and is now focusing
on improving its mobile capabilities
and unit cohesion, as well as on
maintaining the potential of intervention.
“On the other hand, Russia is taking
a lot of measures (which may not
be connected with the exercises because
such things are planned well in
advance) to tackle various problems in
having a dialog with the Western
world.
“We can see today that, firstly,
there are grounds for the Kremlin and
Putin to be dissatisfied because they
feel the impact of anti-Russian sanctions.
Technological potential is running
out. This has been so obvious
since the beginning of the current year
that it left a very essential imprint on
Russian arms development programs,
including military-technical cooperation
which is in fact arms business.
Some countries, such as India, are
overtly scrapping the already announced
projects (e.g., about producing
a military cargo aircraft) because
Russia has no design-and-technology
facilities for carrying out this kind of
projects.
“In response to tensions, Russia uses
‘third countries,’ such as Syria and
Ukraine. Our country serves as a laboratory
for the Kremlin, which the
latter turns to whenever problems with
the West get aggravated.
“Putin must have thought that he
managed to achieve a positive result
by meeting Donald Trump. But he is
now facing the consequences (I think
irrespective of Trump’s potential
sympathy) that emerged owing to a
trouble-free US state machine. These
very big problems have reached a
deadlock, and the West is clearly
unwilling to work out a compromise.
US defense budget growth and additional
sanctions are the signs of it.
For this reason, these factors stimulate
Putin to take such measures as
aggravation of the situation in the
Sea of Azov and holding these exercises.”
What does the participation of
China in the Russian exercises mean?
What is the interest of Moscow and
Beijing?
“This is not the first time China
participates in such exercises. A few
years ago, paratroopers of both countries
also took part in a large-scale exercise.
Following this, the Chinese
even announced a likely purchase of a
big lot of IL76 planes. In other words,
it is the continuation of a course.
“But in the current situation, Beijing
and Moscow ended up ‘in the same
boat’ because Washington labeled them
as a menace – so it stands to reason for
them to come together. China shows
that it is receiving support from Putin,
no matter how odious he is. But, on the
other hand, it is very important because
this may precede establishing a situational
alliance. For Putin, any ally, particularly
such a powerful one as China,
is a lifesaver. Although it is not in fact
isolated, it is aware of being rejected by
the West.
“China used to do so in order to get
Russian technologies, but this is no
longer the point today. What comes
first now is big politics, while Russia
is no longer of interest to China in
terms of technology after selling the
maritime version of its newest air
defense system. China already has a no
less powerful technological potential
than Russia has.”
How should Ukraine react to Russia’s
actions?
“Ukraine is essentially lagging
behind in the buildup of its defense capability.
I will say even more: we, experts
at the Center for Army, Conversion,
and Disarmament Studies,
believe that less than a half of what
could be done has in fact been done in
the four and a half years of war, as far
as buildup of defense capability is
concerned. Well-known Western experts
have already publicly discussed
this sluggishness and, to some extent,
mistakes of the leadership in
building up the army and preparing
for a positional warfare. So, I can affirm
again that Ukraine needs to
reach a strategic level of rearmament,
essentially speed up the adoption
of the missiles that were shown at
the latest parade, and work more actively
in the segments that could help
form a professional army. There are
no signs of this so far.”
● “THE WEST MUST BE AWARE
THAT PUTIN WANTS A
WAR”
Semen NOVOPRUDSKY,
Russian journalist:
“I think the attempts to compare
these exercises with those of 1981 are
not accidental. In my view, Putin has
long been thinking in the paradigm of
a war with the West and hopes to
win it, without being aware of
whether this is realistic, of who will be
defeated (for the West is not so far at
war with Russia), and of the price
Russia will have to pay for this victory.
In my opinion, the West must be
aware that Putin wants a war, thinks
that it is already on, and is in fact pursuing
a ‘wartime’ policy.”
By Mariia PROKOPENKO, The Day
Have you noticed that science is
currently talked about much
more than, say, four years ago?
This is kind of a positive and
hopeful field. Any news about
a Ukrainian scientist, especially a young
one who has won somewhere or invented
something, will receive thousands of
likes. At the same time, we have had
increasing numbers of festivals, lectures,
quests and even parties where science is
popularized, more and more books on how
our brain and intestines work, popular
physics books by Stephen Hawking get
translated and sell well, and this list of
successes is far from complete.
For instance, Den’s readers enjoy
the columns authored by Yurii Kostiuchenko,
who does research in the fields of
satellite observations, geoinformatics
and statistics, and is an expert on security
and risk. Kostiuchenko is also a leading
researcher at the Earth Science Aerospace
Research Center of the National Academy
of Sciences (NAS) of Ukraine’s Institute
of Geological Science, and executive
secretary of the NAS of Ukraine Presidium’s
System Analysis Committee; he cooperates
with the InformNapalm volunteer
community, which has done a lot to
prove to the world the Russian aggression
in Ukraine, in particular, by using scientific
techniques.
People do listen to the scientists. For
example, sociologist Yevhen Holovakha
recently said in an interview with The
Day that, according to studies done by the
NAS of Ukraine’s Institute of Sociology,
the scientific community was among
few institutions trusted by the majority
or the absolute majority of Ukrainians (it
was accompanied in that category by
volunteers, churches, and the military).
This became a starting point of our interview
with Kostiuchenko. We prepared
several pages worth of long questions,
but had to push them to the side in
Onscienceinan“eraofshouters”
Sketch by Viktor BOGORAD
Yurii Kostiuchenko explains
how education will help us
survive in an environment of
growing threats
the first minutes of the conversation. Given
the fact that there are so many selfstyled
“science experts” at present, we began
with the fundamental issue: what science
actually is and why society needs it.
● WHO AND HOW WE TRUST
“When it comes to trust in science,
firstly, any such indicators should be
considered dynamically and in the context,
in particular, in the long term and in the
global context. This is because what is happening
right now reflects global processes
one way or another. And if we look at
what is happening in the world, then
there are very interesting trends out there
that are not fully clear yet and which it
makes sense to look closely at.
“In the 1940s and 1950s or so, a
large degree of trust in government and
social institutions could be observed in the
world. Then it began to decrease, and the
decline lasted into the mid-1960s or so, until
it reached quite low values. Then we
had the humanities revolution of 1968.
After that, trust in most government institutions
stayed at a rather low level in
democratic societies. This applied to parliaments
as well as presidents, security
services as well as the military. As for social
institutions, their standing also took
a bit of damage, but it was nothing major.
The only institutions that kept their
standing intact then were, for some reason,
big business corporations.
“Then there was a slight rebound of
trust, and starting in the late 1980s and
early 1990s, a sharp loss of trust in all government
and social institutions without exception
began. So, we are no exception.
What we are currently observing in our society,
that is, the low trust in all government
and social institutions, is part of the
normal world process.”
● WHY INNOVATION IS NOT
ABOUT SCIENCE
“In modern society, science is a social
institution aimed at collective search for
truth. This search is based, after all, on the
conviction that truth exists. For this purpose,
an institutionalized team selects a
number of exploratory tools. Actually, it
has a name: scientific methodology and a
set of methods. This is what scientific activity
is about.
“All that is built on this, like techniques,
algorithms, technologies, is a different
thing, called scientific and technical
activity. It involves the development of
a set of tools for obtaining, processing, interpreting
various types of data in order to
solve some specific tasks and obtain some
technological results. Doing this requires
interaction with the industrial environment.
When people require that broadlyunderstood
science provide certain applied
results, one must understand that
this is not about ‘pure science,’ but
rather about scientific and technological
activity. And when it comes to innovations
and startups, this is not about
science at all, but rather about business,
the development of tools for profitmaking
in a particular socio-economic
environment.”
● ABOUT DILETTANTES WHO
HAVE MADE WAY FOR
SHOUTERS
“For society, science points to the
important difference between what I
would call fact, opinion, and knowledge.
In science, this is called the nature
of proof. What transforms data into
facts and what of these facts are proofs?
How to use these proofs to establish a position
and what position is (and is not)
knowledge?
“A few years ago it was fashionable
to say that the era of dilettantes had
come: ‘We are surrounded by dilettantes
who babble something, and no one
can distinguish their opinions from genuine
expert knowledge.’ I think this
‘era of dilettantes’ quickly ended, but
they have ‘cleared’ the information field
from expert knowledge. Indeed, today it
is difficult to distinguish a mere individual
opinion from expert knowledge
which is based on systematic education,
experience, and skills. Dilettantes could
not hold their ground and fell victims to
the next generation of opinion leaders,
as an era of noisy shouters has come, and
the latter just come forward, showcase
some picture and say: ‘Aha! Here it is,
look, it is a fact.’ But it actually is not.
It is actually nothing at all, just some data
torn out of context. This is not even
dilettantism. Because a dilettante, for all
their faults, holds an opinion that is
based on a certain position.
Continued on page 5 ➤

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DAY AFTER DAY No.45 SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 3
By Ivan KAPSAMUN, The Day
Visit of head of the Russian Orthodox
Church Patriarch Kirill to
Patriarch Bartholomew of
Constantinople did nothing to
dampen the expectations of those
supporting the granting of a Tome (decree
of recognition) to the particular Ukrainian
Orthodox Church. We do not know the
details, but the information that transpired
in the media after the meeting carried
positive signals. Many observers have
labeled Kirill’s visit a failure.
Archbishop Yevstratii (Zoria) of the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate)
wrote on Facebook: “‘We are
afraid only of God.’ If you believe the
pro-Russian Greek-language church news
portal Romfea, this is what Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew said at a meeting with
his Moscow counterpart in response to
the latter threatening ‘a split of all the Orthodox
community’ if the Tome of autocephaly
for the Ukrainian Church gets issued.
‘We do not threaten and do not accept
threats,’ the Ecumenical Patriarch said.
‘We have no money, no army, no strength,
but we are afraid only of God!’ he added.
“The Patriarch of Moscow insisted
that Ukraine was in his jurisdiction and
that everything had to remain as it was.
However, it is known that Patriarch
Bartholomew publicly denied in a speech
delivered on July 1 that jurisdiction over
the Metropolitanate of Kyiv was ever
transferred to anybody by canonical means.
Similarly, representatives of Constantinople
(for example, Metropolitan Elpidophoros)
have repeatedly stressed that
Moscow has done nothing for 25 years to
solve problems in Ukraine, and the situation
cannot remain as it is today.”
As the situation shows, Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew stands strong and
is consistent in his intentions to grant the
much-desired Tome.
After the departure of the Patriarch of
Moscow, a meeting (Synax) of the hierarchs
of the Church of Constantinople immediately
began at the Patriarchal Cathedral
of St. George in that city. Patriarch
Bartholomew delivered a speech in which,
in particular, he dwelt on the difficulties
faced by the Ukrainian Orthodoxy, calling
them “the difficulties which are neither a
recent phenomenon nor something created
by the Ecumenical Patriarchate,” but which
it still must and has a legitimate right to resolve,
the uocofusa.org website states.
Let us dwell on it in more detail. Patriarch
Bartholomew made an excursion into
history, into the time when the Orthodox
Metropolitanate of Kyiv under the Patriarchate
of Constantinople joined the Patriarchate
of Moscow. He spoke about the
events of 1686, when the Ecumenical Patriarch
Dionysios IV and the Holy Synod of
the Church of Constantinople, acting under
the pressure of difficult historical
Wise strength
Patriarch Bartholomew: “The Mother
Church did not concede its canonical rights
over Ukraine and has now assumed the
initiative of resolving the Ukrainian issue”
circumstances, issued a controversial Tome
transferring the Metropolitanate of Kyiv
to the canonical jurisdiction of the Moscow
Patriarchate.
“It all began in the early 14th century,
when the see of Metropolitanate of Kyiv was
moved without the canonical permission of
the Mother Church to Moscow, and there
have been tireless efforts on the part of our
Kyivan brothers for independence from ecclesiastical
control by the Moscow center
ever since. Indeed, the obstinacy of the Patriarchate
of Moscow was instrumental in
occasionally creating schisms, which still
afflict the pious Ukrainian people,”
Bartholomew said in a speech.
Photo from the website PATRIARCHATE.ORG
According to the Ecumenical Patriarch,
a study of the matter in the light of
the sacred canons does not justify any intervention
whatsoever by the Church of
Russia, since the area in question is outside
the jurisdiction of Moscow. As Patriarch
Bartholomew once again emphasized, “the
canonical dependence of Kyiv on the Mother
Church of Constantinople has remained
constant and uninterrupted.”
The Patriarch emphasized that the
Mother Church (Patriarchate of Constantinople)
did not concede its canonical rights
over Ukraine, and given the current situation
in the Ukrainian Orthodoxy, which
developed because of Russia which could
not resolve the problem, the Ecumenical
Patriarchate assumed the initiative of resolving
the Ukrainian issue. This responsibility
is exercised by the Mother Church
in accordance with the authority given to
it by the sacred canons, and in view of the
jurisdictional responsibility of Constantinople
for the Metropolitanate of Kyiv.
Patriarch Bartholomew informed the
hierarchs of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
about the parliament of Ukraine’s request
to issue a Tome recognizing the autocephaly
of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church,
as well as periodic appeals from the Patriarch
of Kyiv Filaret who asked for a review
of his case [that is, lifting of the anathema
imposed on him by the Patriarchate of
Moscow. – Ed.]. Patriarch Bartholomew
mentioned in his speech Bishop and Professor
Makarios of Christoupolis, who
studied the question of Ukraine for many
days, and penned an official report of
over 90 pages, which he then sent to Constantinople
bishops.
After studying all the relevant church
canons, the canonists of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
concluded that “the Archbishop
of Constantinople alone has the privilege
to judge and adjudicate conflicts of bishops,
clergy and metropolitans of other patriarchs.”
“This Patriarchate’s mission is not
comprised of imposing some new ecclesiological
principles but preserving truths of
faith, precious traditions and inspired patristic
teachings established many centuries
ago. The Ecumenical Patriarchate
bears the responsibility of setting matters
in ecclesiastical and canonical order because
it alone has the canonical privilege to carry
out this supreme duty,” Patriarch
Bartholomew summed up.
As we see, the Ecumenical Patriarch
appeals to historical facts, knowledge and
truth. This is the basis that the Patriarchate
of Moscow lacks. The latter acts
through force, money, and lies. For
15 years, Den’s Library project aimed its
efforts specifically at defusing the Moscow
myths and preparing intellectual soil for
Ukrainians to thrive. Back in 2015, Den
published the book Return to Tsarhorod
which is directly related to the current topic.
“When Russia turns to the Byzantine
historical legacy (as well as that of Kyivan
Rus’), it becomes a failed quest to find
something that does not exist. For Ukraine,
this is the best way to find the true path,”
Den’s editor-in-chief Larysa Ivshyna wrote
in her Foreword in that book.
“It should be understood that the aggressive
policy of the Kremlin, both today
and in the distant past, is rooted in a deeply
hidden and unconscious complex of vassal
dependence – dependence on our true, Kyivan
Rus’, on a history undistorted through
imperial manipulation,” Ivshyna continued.
“Is not it confirmed by the tragicomic project
of building a monument to Volodymyr
the Great, our Kyivan prince, in Moscow?
It is actually sadly ironic in my assessment:
they once competed for the title of a
‘Third Rome,’ shed rivers of blood and
wasted megatons of paper in that effort, and
today they are seeking, in essence, to become
‘the Second Kyiv.’ And all of it is because
of them lacking courage to ask one question:
who are they? It is here that the roots of Russia’s
great-power expansionism lie. They
know exactly where its most vulnerable
point is – it is on Pechersk hills of Kyiv. This
is because stolen, alien history has not been
reproduced, has not sprouted in Russia. To
fill the emptiness, they commit new crimes.
Some of them are committed in order to
mask the past ones.”
How can the story of granting a Tome
to the Ukrainian Church develop now? Doctor
of Philosophy, head of the Department
of History of Religions and Practical
Religious Studies of the Religious Studies
Division at the Institute of Philosophy of
the National Academy of Sciences of
Ukraine Liudmyla FYLYPOVYCH commented
for The Day.
“We hope that the Ukrainian question
will finally be resolved in the Orthodox
world. I think that not only me, but also
others, cannot help feeling that in the
confrontation between the Patriarchates of
Constantinople and Moscow, between
Ukraine and Russia, the balance has
swayed towards Constantinople and
Ukraine. Of course, we cannot say yet
that the Russian Orthodox Church and Kirill
have lost, but in this situation, the Patriarch
of Constantinople has strengthened
his position. He has succeeded in persuading
his hierarchs and metropolitans of
other Orthodox churches to maintain unity,
despite the fact that the Ukrainian
Church will receive autocephaly. These
were and still are some very complex chesslike
combinations, since Moscow has always
relied on its numerous parishioners and the
high number of parishes, because it still remains
the largest Church in the Orthodox
world. But as current events show, not all
victories are won by big battalions. It
turns out that victories can be won with
daily, steady, but quiet work as well.
“The autocephaly drive itself has not
stopped since 1917. In 2008, when Patriarch
Bartholomew came to Kyiv, neither he
nor even we were fully prepared yet. The
Ecumenical Patriarch then followed a
completely different model of recognition
of a church’s autocephaly. But the events
of recent years, in particular, ones connected
with the annexation of Crimea,
the occupation of parts of the Donbas, the
war, plus the refusal of the Russian Orthodox
Church (ROC) to recognize the
Pan-Orthodox Council of 2016, have played
into our hands. This is because Vladimir
Putin and his pocket Church began to seriously
trouble everyone not only in the Orthodox
world, but in the West as well.
Someone had to show wise strength. And,
strangely enough, it was spiritual and religious
leader of the Orthodox, Patriarch
of Constantinople who did so.
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A unique opportunity
to test preparedness
By Pavlo PALAMARCHUK
LVIV – Rapid Trident 2018
Ukraine-NATO multinational training
exercise was ceremoniously
launched at the Yavoriv Combat Training
Center on September 3. One of the
largest ever held, this year’s exercise
involves combat units from 10 NATO
member countries and four partners:
Ukraine, US, UK, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan,
Georgia, Denmark, Canada, Moldova,
Poland, Turkey, Romania, Germany,
and Lithuania.
Among the troops, totaling 2,200,
are officers and men of the Hetman Ostrogski
Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian
Brigade. Needless to say, the Ukrainian
contingent is numerically the
strongest, followed by the US.
This time the exercise will also involve
the National Guard, State Border
Service, and State Security Administration
of Ukraine, along with over
350 combat vehicles and aircraft.
Rapid Trident 2018, made up of
two command post and field training
phases, will last two weeks, until September
15. During this time, Ukrainians
and their foreign colleagues will undergo
combat, logistics, and humanitarian
aid drills.
Rapid Trident Co-Director, Col.
Tim Cleveland, said: “These exercises
are a unique opportunity for all the
commanders to check the combat capability
of their units, to work out
tactics jointly in one territory… It is a
great opportunity for the allies and
partners to work with the Ukrainian
troops and share experience.”
By Ksenia KIRILLOVA
The following is an interview
with a resident of Donetsk
who agreed to it under the
name of Olena Nekrasova, for
reasons of personal security.
“The militants kept bullying
the populace and it got so, almost
none would dare voice their pro-
Ukrainian stand, for this would
cost them their life. At the start of
the war, they ruthlessly demonstrated
what would happen to anyone
who opposed the regime. People
were scared to express their disapproval,
because they might well be
grabbed. And then they wouldn’t be
shot, but exposed to long inhuman
tortures that would kill them in
the end. The militants started by
bullying local businesspeople into
paying them protection money,
which they called a tax, for reasons
best known to themselves. To make
sure they would oblige, they herded
them to the former SBU premises
and the businesspeople heard the
cries of those being tortured there.
They got scared and agreed to everything.
Even now people on the street
Looming disaster in Donetsk
Russia-occupied Donetsk swept under a tidal wave of
FSB raids and police brutality after the assassination
of DNR leader Alexander Zakharchenko
look around to make sure no militants
are within earshot before they start
talking to each other, sharing their
disillusionment.”
She adds that after the blast at
Cafe Separ that killed DNR leader
Alexander Zakharchenko, the city
was swept under a tidal wave of FSB
searches, including homes and cars:
“People got scared even more, yet
their disillusionment is increasing.
Militants have been coming with their
families, children and retired parents,
mostly from Vorkuta and Irkutsk, of
late. They settle here on a permanent
basis and get DNR passports in addition
to their Russian ones. They occupy
vacant apartments and dorms.
The prices are up to the Vorkuta level,
although the Donetsk aborigines
don’t have the kind of allowance the
Russian resettlers have. Our allowance
averages 3,000 Russian
rubles, so we locals simply can’t afford
to buy food the way they can. Our
people are very angry, saying they’ve
brought us another Holodomor and
genocide.”
She says the Russian resettlers
mourned Alexander Zakharchenko’s
assassination while the populace was
concerned about its problems: “Most
foodstuffs on sale are expensive and
long past their shelf life. People are
complaining about the sharpening of
stomach, kidney, vascular, cardiac,
and other symptoms. Their teeth are
falling out. They can’t afford medical
treatment and there is a short supply
of medicines.”
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No.45 SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
TOPIC OF THE DAY
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VIKTOR PYLYPENKO, WHO SERVED IN THE DONBAS BATTALION UNDER
THE NOM DE GUERRE “FRENCHMAN,” IS A LITTLE TIRED OF COMMENTING
TO JOURNALISTS. HE IS THE ONLY PROJECT PARTICIPANT WHO DARED TO
COME OUT. HE CONFESSES THAT IT IS EASIER TO LIVE NOW THAT HE DOES
NOT HAVE TO HIDE
By Mariia PROKOPENKO, The Day
Usually people rarely listen to
audio works at exhibits,
especially at openings. Even
if they do, they put on earphones
just for a minute. But there
were no free earphones and people would
stop for a long time to listen at Kyiv’s
IZONE art gallery, where the exhibit
“We Were Here” was opening.
The mechanical voice tells the living
stories of the military, volunteers,
and paramedics who are gays, lesbians,
or transgender people. Next to you are
photographs that show elements of
camouflage and the LGBT rainbow flag.
You can see no faces. The project author
Anton Shebetko puts emphasis on the
image of double camouflage that hides
his heroes.
Far right-wingers often reproach
LGBT people for dodging military service
in the Donbas. The exhibit’s name is
the answer to this: “We were here.”
● “I WOULD DIVIDE THE
MONOLOGS OF SOME
HEROES IN TWO”
This is not Anton’s first project on
an LGBT-related theme. The Isolation
Ukraine and Canada will soon
begin negotiations on expanding
the Free Trade Agreement
Ukraine and Canada intend
to begin discussions on
expanding the Free Trade
Agreement between the
two countries in the near
future, said Ukrainian Ambassador
to Canada Andrii Shevchenko. “I
think it is time to expand the Free
Trade Agreement to the services and
investment sectors. It will be the
next logical step, and I think that it
is actually well past time for us to
begin these negotiations... We will
begin negotiations on expanding the
scope of the Agreement in the coming
months, I believe that it will happen
no later than this October,” the
ambassador said live on the Radio
NV. He also stated that there was a
preliminary agreement on the visit of
the First Vice Prime Minister –
Minister of Economic Development
and Trade of Ukraine Stepan Kubiv
to Canada to hold a meeting of the
bilateral commission administering
the Free Trade Agreement between
Photo by Mykola TYMCHENKO, The Day
Indoublecamouflage
Photographer Anton Shebetko’s new project about LGBT in the army
foundation says his project “Pleshka”
about gays’ meeting places in Kyiv
was shown last year at the Festival of
Young Ukrainian Artists at Mystetsky
Arsenal. Another project of Anton,
“Common People,” is a series of warped
portraits and interviews with hidden
Ukrainian gays.
The “We Were Here” project comprises
the stories of nine people. Only
one of them dared to come out, i.e., to
disclose being homosexual. Anton
looked for his heroes with the help of
friends, acquaintances, and experts.
“I would divide the monologs of
some heroes in two,” Anton confesses.
“I have no right to edit them because
those were their words. But, clearly, the
army is a very homophobic structure,
where there is a great deal of discrimination
and misogyny, i.e. scorn for not
only LGBT people, but also women.
Simply, some heroes prefer not to notice
it or do not consider certain things as
discrimination.”
Anton recorded interviews,
arranged them as direct speech, and
made up monologs which he voiced by
means of the Google speech synthesizer
in order to preserve anonymity.
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Ukraine and Canada. “I think it will
offer a good occasion to start negotiations,”
Shevchenko said. He noted
that in the services sector, Canada
was very interested in everything
related to the IT. “This is a very
strong direction for our cooperation.
Large Canadian companies are now
placing major orders with Ukrainian
IT professionals. We are talking
about thousands of Ukrainian IT
professionals currently involved in
creating software for Canadian
companies. The agreement must
create better conditions for this
activity,” the ambassador explained.
As reported before, the Free Trade
Agreement between Ukraine and
Canada came into force on August 1,
2017. On October 31 last year, Prime
Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr
Hroisman stated that Ukraine and
Canada should start developing a
new agreement on mutual protection
of investments and a free trade area
in services between the two countries.
By Tetiana ZAROVNA
Without building a civil society,
Ukraine isn’t likely
to become a free European
democracy. Euromaidan
would seem to have laid
the foundations for it as one of its few
achievements. With time, however, our
civic organizations have started showing
symptoms of the same disease that
afflicts other [public] institutions, and
their development is not always along the
civilized lines. This caused Iryna LOIUK,
head of the civic organization Prostir
mozhlyvostei (Space of Opportunity), to
take a closer look at the experience of
developed countries. She began her civic
activities in mid-2014 after cutting
short a career in the financial sector and
becoming a volunteer, like many others.
She did free legal counseling for ATO
combatants and families of KIAs. At the
beginning of 2015, she was a co-founder
of Project Legal Hundred, but quit
toward the end of 2016. Over the period
of civic activities she has been the author
and co-author of bills on foreigners
serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
protection of the state against corruptionists,
and on rehabilitation. At present,
together with partners from the civic
network Svoyi, Ms. Loiuk is working to
introduce into the civic sector adapted
NGO models practiced in the West.
● THREE NGO PILLARS
What is the purpose of your civic organization?
“We want to introduce ethics into
the activities of non-governmental organizations.
In a civilized society, these
activities are most often described as
resting on three pillars: openness, transparency,
and accountability. Openness
means keeping the organization’s books,
structure, management, trends, and
partners open for the public. Transparency
means that this organization
makes no secret of its relations with the
state, society, sponsors, partners, beneficiaries,
and other interested persons.
Accountability means that what is being
actually done is in conformity with the
stated purpose. This organization is responsible
for the trust placed in it by people,
donors, and partners. Its decisions
and actions affect the reputation of the
entire civil society. Taking advantage of
this trust or using resources for one’s
own purposes is inadmissible.”
How close are these principles to
Ukrainian society?
“In a number of cases the leaders of
non-profit organizations, after declaring
their purpose as champions of the poor,
have proceeded to carry out secret plans
of their own, getting in a position of power.
[For them] helping people is not an end
in itself but a tool, and people’s interests
are taken into account only when this
helps them reach their personal ends. I
call this abuse of people’s trust, of those
who donate money to help people.
“It’s not bad when public activists
are elected to office. It’s bad when getting
elected is that activist’s end in itself.
In this case his road to power will
be strewn with the bodies of deceived
partners and beneficiaries. One’s intentions
must be transparent. What
makes a developed society different is
the fact that being elected, getting a position
in power implies being a member
of a political movement.
“Another problem is effective partnership.
Over 60 percent of [civic] organizations
polled by Svoyi say they
see other such organizations as rivals,
rather than partners. A civilized approach
rules out competition. If the
purpose of an organization is to help others
instead of winning preferences,
there can be no competition. Organizations
can work together if their leaders
act according to the stated purpose and
are not driven by ambition or greed.”
● ORGANIZATIONS SEEK HIGH
STANDARD IN A DEVELOPED
SOCIETY
How can you make one abide by
ethics?
“Not legislatively, anyway. We
know what happened when the anticorruption
activists tabled their bill on
declarations of income, in order to settle
the issue of transparency legislatively.
They were accused of trying to enforce
control. A civil society is free of
state control. This freedom is important,
especially in our post-Soviet reality.
There are lots of organizations in the
West that help their civil society’s
progress and uphold NGO standards.
One of them is the Partnering Initiative
(http://thepartneringinitiative.org) and
its purpose is to facilitate partnership.
There is also the Foundation Center
(https://foundationcenter.org) and its
activities include securing the philanthropists’
transparency.
“It is interesting to note the system
of NGO self-regulation. It envisages
regulation from within, self-audits, verification,
and self-improvement. NGOs
unite into groups and adopt the rules of
openness, transparency, and accountability.
That way each such group keeps
itself in check.
“This system was developed for good
reasons. In the late 1990s, some NGOs in
France, including the Red Cross, were
found to be corrupt and mismanaged. At
the time, there were no means of control
and prevention. In the early 1990s, two
initiatives appeared, aimed at solving
Does civil society
needareputation?
Iryna Loiuk,
head of the civic
organization
Prostir
mozhlyvostei
shares her view
on the matter
because we’re under pressure to do so, but
because we want this. NGOs must be the
harbingers and come up with ethical
standards. With time [non-profit] organizations
will realize that certification
is to their advantage. Let me stress that
this is a working model for the Western
civil society.”
Could you cite examples of unethical
and irresponsible conduct on the part
of civic organizations?
“There are many. And this considering
that our NGOs should try to change
for the better, even if from the selfpreservation
point of view. Cases of irresponsible
conduct are seldom made
public knowledge and this is largely explained
by the donors’ attitude. They are
actually ashamed to let the beneficiaries
know that the money meant for them has
been stolen. Now and then there are unpleasant
media reports, like the one about
the European Union demanding return of
the grant allocated for the renovation of
dorms for war victims in April 2015, referring
to the EU press attache in Ukraine
(https://ru.tsn.ua/video/video-novini/es-trebuet-ot-ukrainy-vernut-dengikotorye-vydelyali-na-vosstanovlenieobschezhitiy-dlya-pereselencev.html).
Here is another one. Politicians who kinthis
problem. One came from the NGOs
that had decided to establish a system of
self-regulation and the second one had to
do with legislative changes. I don’t
think that we should wait for corruption
scandals to erupt in the civic sector to initiate
a system of self-control.”
Who would control this system?
“A group of [civic] organization
that would adopt the standards of openness,
transparency, and accountability.
It would receive a confirmation certificate
after an audit and performance assessment
report.
“In the civilized world, this system
works as follows: there are certifying associations
that confirm and guarantee
that a given organization, after being
checked, will not use any funds in its possession
to meet the leadership’s personal
interests. It has long been known
in the West that building a reputation is
harder than ruining it, and that any organization
that doesn’t adhere to certain
principles is doomed.”
● WHY INTERNAL CONTROL IS
IMPORTANT
In Ukraine, reputation means practically
nothing. The man in the street is
used to comparing bad with worse and
trying to choose the lesser evil. Isn’t this
true?
“I don’t think that we should wait for
big fund abuse scandals. Otherwise our
civil society will lose everything. We’ll
lose trust in the first place. It would be
a shame if other organizations had to stop
functioning because of several corrupt
ones. We have to establish an internal
system of regulation of civil society – not
dled the fire of war in Donbas and made
every effort to weaken Ukraine’s positions
there proceeded to launch a showcase
campaign aimed at extinguishing
that fire. They set up a number of organizations
that are actually helping
refugees, resettlers, people living on occupied
territories. The rhetoric question
is whether these activities are really
charitable and won’t be used for political
purposes. Defending human rights,
while actually serving one’s self-interest
or capitalizing on efforts to eliminate the
consequences of one’s destructive activities,
looks quite cynical.”
● UKRAINIAN NGO CODE
OF ETHICS
How do you propose to solve this
problem?
“When studying movements within
a civil society, we conceived an idea.
Its inner development could be helped
by introducing principles based on
ethical standards. As a result, we had
a systemic image of what our civil society
should be like. A society supported
not only by foreign donors
(whose interest in Ukraine is on a
downward curve, by the way), but also
by domestic ones. Our country has a
huge charitable potential. We saw this
during the Maidans and at the start of
the war when ordinary people and private
businesses supported the volunteers,
making donations for national
defense. As the threat abated, so did
the charitable effort.
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Energy jazz bands
Green innovations tested at TeslaCamp in Kyiv
By Mariia PROKOPENKO, The Day
Says Andrii ZINCHENKO, cofounder
of NGO Greencubator,
launched by TeslaCamp in
2013: “We profess what we
believe in. Our entire camp is
using alternative energy sources.
We’ve put together a microgrid and
we’re demonstrating to people how
this can be done. This microgrid is a
combination of several generators and
several consumers. Teamwork often
makes solving problem in the energy
sphere easier.”
We met when the event took place
in Kyiv’s Hidropark (resort area on the
left bank of the Dnipro River), in early
September. He pointed, saying, “See
these SolarGaps solar cell panels? We
also have Kripter Domino panels out
there, on the beach. On the other side
are the guys with the Rotor Sumy system.
They got a Climate Innovation
Voucher from the EBRD and EU. Their
generator uses biomass, they burn
wood pellets and get enough electricity
to keep them warm and use shower
booths.”
There were also wireless chargers
and beer brewed using solar energy.
There was no disposable tableware,
just as I saw no brochures. They were
obviously determined to keep evolving
on a steady basis, their own way.
● MICROGRIDS
Microgrids are the watchword with
TeslaCamp this year.
Andrii Zinchenko: “We’ve decided
to focus on distributed generation.
We’ve been discussing distributed generation,
microgrids, turning various
small energy solutions into big systems,
for almost two years. We’re now in a
new energy epoch. We have big generators
and power plants, but anyone
with an average income can buy photovoltaic
panels and generate solar energy.
Previously, the energy sphere was
like a big orchestra with a conductor.
Today, there are energy jazz bands
that play their tunes when and where
they like. However, all this must be integrated.”
Government-assigned experts and
businessmen have discussed the technological
and economic preparedness of
small businesses to step on the “green
path.”
Andrii Zinchenko: “Self-sustaining
energy technologies have long been
developed to meet their needs. The big
question is: Are they prepared economically
and on a regulatory level, and
will the authorities allow a given business
to do that? If so, this business isn’t
likely to operate as an isolated entity.
Sooner or later, it will join a major
power network or start selling electricity.
There is also the complicated
matter of registration, and so on.”
● QUICK GROWTH
There is an increasing number of
domestic solar energy plants in
Ukraine. According to the State
Agency for Energy Efficiency and Energy
Conservation, there were 244 such
plants toward the end of 2015, 1,109 in
2016, and 3,010 in 2017. Andrii
Zinchenko says he was told that there
were more than 4,000 last month. He
attributes this to the good “green tariff”
for such domestic installations, as
well as to the time-tested procedures.
Also, the business aspect: “A farmer of
Fasova, a village in Kyiv oblast, installed
a separate drip irrigation system
with droplet pumps powered by photovoltaic
batteries. He also has a diesel
generator, but its usage rate is some
10 percent. He did so because installing
a line to the nearest energy distribution
company would cost a fortune, what
with conductor line and supports. And
so he did what he did and now he has
enough power.”
● COMMUNITY INNOVATIONS
TeslaCamp’s other priority is encouraging
community innovations.
Yurii FOMICHEV, Mayor of Slavutych,
said during a discussion that paperwork
was underway to register
Ukraine’s first municipal energy co-op
society in his city, and that its purpose
was to make Slavutych energy independent.
He said they would increase
the energy efficiency of the housing
stock and budget-sustained institutions,
reduce the use of natural gas, and
replace it with renewable energy
sources.
Mykola Shumskyi, Zhytomyr Regional
State Administration, says there
is a program for 30 kW domestic power
plants. Andrii Zinchenko adds with
admiration: “Zhytomyr oblast is in
the north of Ukraine, it’s colder there
than in Odesa oblast. In 2016, they had
about 10 such power plants, then
102 the following year, having actually
rewritten part of the municipal engineering
program.”
Mr. Shumskyi told TeslaCamp that
the local authorities had recompensed
75 individuals for the cost of solar
battery installation this year, to the
tune of UAH 2.5 million.
● ELECTRICITY INTERNET
Roman ZINCHENKO, co-founder,
Greencubator: “We’re working on the
setting up of a Green Empire in
Ukraine. We have partners, among
them ClimateLaunchpad, the world’s
largest green business ideas competition.
Its finals will take place in Edinburgh
this November. There will be
hundreds of contestants from 45 countries,
including a Ukrainian team. Last
year our team was in Top 10 of the ClimateLaunchpad
Grand Finals with its
Go to U charging network developed in
Lviv. There are over 200 such stations
operating in Austria, Poland, Ukraine,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Thailand.
TeslaCamp hosted the Climate-
Launchpad National Finals. Three
Ukrainian projects were selected for the
finals in Scotland. The third place
went to Stock Factory, a platform for
manufacturers and realtors that helps
quick sale and transfer of goods with a
short shelf life. A good alternative to
waste recycling/disposal. TOKA, a network
of charging stations that can be
integrated into old and new structures,
placed second. UGrid, a project installing
microgrids based on conventional
ones, complete with soft- and
hardware, placed first.
“We tried to glimpse the future,
with all cars being driven by electric engines,
when they’ll have to be serviced.
We tried to imagine the energy transport
system and the number of charging
stations,” says UGrid founding father
Pavlo REPALO. He adds that intensive
laboratory tests are underway,
and that the UGrid team hopes to God
the Ukrainian energy market will be
deregulated next summer, for this will
allow to launch an Electricity Internet.
● GADGETIZATION
This Green Empire, if and when,
will have room for all. Andrii
Zinchenko points to the so-called gadgetization
of the energy sector: “Our
Dutch partner said that there is a company
in the Netherlands that leases out
solar panels for 40.00. Many believe it
to be a technological company, but it’s
actually a financial business. It’s the
world’s biggest rental housing operator,
yet they occupy – probably rent –
just one office. The name is Airbnb. Or
take UBER, the biggest peer-to-peer
taxi cab, food delivery and transportation
company. None of them owns
a car.”
Mr. Zinchenko says each businessman
in Ukraine should pay attention to
the variety of new business models, considering
that the energy sector will
change: “I’d also advise one to carefully
study the Ukrainian legal and regulatory
framework. There are lots of
things that can be done and that aren’t
envisaged there.”
Photo by Mykola TYMCHENKO, The Day
On science in an “era of shouters”
Photo by Ruslan KANIUKA, The Day
Continued from page 2 ➤
It is possible to discuss this position,
to prove that it lacks substance or proof.
In the other case, however, there is no position,
only a demonstration of an individual
opinion.
“Therefore, when we talk about now
being an era of dilettantes, it is actually
an optimistic view. We now have noisy
shouters who use the simple skills of distributing
bits of data – photos, quotes
which they substitute for facts, and
facts which they substitute for a position,
for knowledge. This is not a catastrophe;
it is the new reality in our information environment.”
● HOW AN EXPERT OPINION
IS SHAPED
“Science should also create an expert
consensus for policymakers.
“In general, before making a decision,
there should usually be a certain
public, media, and expert consensus.
Speaking of a public consensus, people
can and should influence politicians, but
at the same time, one can bring people to
the street, and this may be part of a
technological process. In other words,
depending on institutional development,
the public may have various
means of influencing political decisions,
but at the same time it can be vulnerable
to technological influences in various
ways itself. As for the media, there are
issues there that depend on the position
of media owners, there are different
points of view, but we need public discussion
as part of a social dialog that reduces
social vulnerability. Speaking of
an expert consensus, this is usually a
prerequisite in democratic societies for
the adoption of policy decisions that
must be systematic.
“When our current war began,
many various papers appeared at once.
There was fairly significant media attention
to it which influenced the adoption
of political decisions. But there was
no expert consensus for a while, as there
were no solid papers that would analyze
the situation on the basis of scientific
methodology. There are such publications
now. Our research group [the
Earth Science Aerospace Research Center
of the NAS of Ukraine. – Ed.] alone
has published six papers that cite over a
dozen documents that appeared around
the world in the first two years of the
conflict. They offer analysis of the
course of the conflict, analysis of losses
sustained, the number of citizens involved,
etc., using the standard scientific
methodology, and it has influenced
the expert consensus. This has thoroughly
proved what kind of a conflict is
going on. Despite the fact that the Russians
declared it a ‘civil war’ and have
continued to insist on the term, our research
has clearly shown that we are
dealing here with aggression, a specific
type of interstate conflict.
“That is, there is an expert consensus
here that allows the Western coalition
to continue to impose sanctions, despite
a rather powerful pro-Russian
propaganda pressure exerted through
traditional and social media.”
● ON THE POPULARIZATION
OF SCIENCE
“Undeniably, pop science is a global
trend. This is part of what is called
scientific communication, and it is a
very diverse and useful field, because
science in this country has always been
a government institution, but it must
be a social one. And speaking of these
festivals and lectures, this kind of interaction
is characteristic precisely for
social institutions.
“In addition, we always complain
that there are no young people in our
science. On the one hand, this is true,
but on the other hand, it is a manifestation
of some misunderstanding of the
structure and dynamics of the modern
scientific community. In modern science,
in particular, there are two trends.
For example, modern science has a very
strange demographic profile globally.
Young people enter science, they come
there, get certain skills, develop a few
tools, usually of applied nature, defend
their theses, and go on to take up management,
business or manufacturing
jobs. It is more or less mature scientists
who stay, and there is very high competition
among them.
“We have a slightly different story.
Young people come in considerably
lower numbers, although they also do
come, do something, defend their theses,
and go away. And although this is
a normal world practice, it may be more
critical for us, because we do not have a
normal scientific competition. It is also
often said that young scientists leave
the country. But this probably does not
matter. They leave other countries,
too. They just do not perceive it in the
same way, because there are no borders
there. We also have almost no borders,
but this causes hysteric fits for some
reason. Some 15 years ago, we saw terrible
hysteric fits in Estonia, as people
were claiming that all of it was upping
sticks and leaving. But strangely
enough, nothing tragic has happened,
and the situation of science there is not
bad either. Nothing untoward will happen
to us either, because mobility is a
normal process. I will say more, we lack
social and scientific mobility. Our scientists
do not go anywhere, but they
have to, because without this we will
not be able to develop normally, and instead
of the ‘brain drain’ we will have
the ‘brain mildew.’
“The second trend that now exists in
science is that most programs and projects
are interdisciplinary, they are developed
in cooperation between individual
teams from different institutions.
Therefore, the connections between
these teams are much stronger than
ones between such teams and the leadership
of the institutions in which they
work. This changes the management
paradigm of these institutions and science
in general, as well as the concept of
scientific communication. It cannot go
on like it was 20 or 30 years ago. People
have to move around and communicate
all the time. We are also not ready for
this. For the sake of justice, I will add
that we are not alone in it.
“We will have to take into account
the current trends and somehow
change the paradigm of science management
and the concept of scientific
communication.”
● ABOUT THE MOST
PROFITABLE BUSINESS OF
OUR TIME
“Due to technological changes, the
very structure of the information space
has changed. Previously, we had traditional
media, such as newspapers, and
we knew who was sending messages, but
did not know who was receiving them.
The readership was some poorly-known
general audience. Today, the situation
is reversed: thanks to the technology of
analyzing large data, we know the readership
very well, but we do not always
know who is sending messages. We can
have an anonymous information dump
targeting some group which will definitely
respond to it.
“Why to do this? Most money is
made these days not by selling ideas, but
by transmitting electrical signals
through communication channels. This
is the principal business that generates
much more profits than any other business
in the world.
By Mariia PROKOPENKO, The Day
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CULT URE
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By Dmytro DESIATERYK, The Day,
Odesa – Kyiv
This looks like an on-screen story of
sorts.
The young Kyivite Daria Gaikalova
receives a bachelor’s degree in philosophy
at Kyiv Mohyla Academy and then
moves to Mumbai, the film capital of India,
to teach a course of scriptwriting.
She begins to make advertisements and
shorts. And finally she comes back
home with a full-length film Three and
a Half (India-Ukraine).
The recurring character is a house
in Mumbai. The story is always set in
early March. Three and a half are in
fact the gods whose names title the
film’s episodes. “The God of Death”:
the house is divided into a school and a
small squalid dwelling shared by a
teenager who was not lucky to be born
on a leap year’s February 29 and his dying
grandfather – not so good a person,
as the latter claims. “The God of the
Dance”: 20 years later the same premises
become a brothel, where a beginner
prostitute receives her first client.
“The God of Love”: a 70-year-old married
couple, head over heels in love,
lives in this place.
Each story has an unexpected turn
that shatters our perception abruptly:
the old man builds his funeral pyre
right in the room, the story of a virgin
prostitute turns out to be a trick for
swindling customers out of their money,
and in the last scene we can see an
ocean instead of a street through the
window of the elderly lovers’ room.
And the nameless builders who renovate
the house for new life cycles are
“demigods.”
Obviously, those in Mumbai were
aware of who they invited to teach
screenwriting, for Three and a Half’s
strong side is dramaturgy, dialogs
and, as a result of clearly defined directorial
instructions, splendid acting.
Images and situations pass from
episode to episode, a light and steady
movement of the camera binds scenes
into an integrated visual field, and, interestingly
enough, each story was
photographed in one shot without splicing.
By all accounts, Three and a Half
is a surprisingly mature work.
Meanwhile, Daria’s second feature
film Namdev Bhau in Search of Silence
has been invited to international film
festivals in London and Pusan (South
Korea).
We spoke soon after the premiere
of Three and a Half at the Odesa Film
Festival.
● CRAZY SCHEME
How come a Kyiv Mohyla Academy
graduate became a film director in
Mumbai?
“From the age of about 11, I was at
the House of Pioneers’ theater. Mother
also signed me up to a society, where
I was to solder some metal platforms
and learn the Morse code. She was
very proud that I was the only girl
among 30 boys. I could stand no more
than five lessons. It all finished when
I was to throw some weights. I threw a
couple of them, and that was the end.
But I remained behind at the theater.
My first role was in a crowd scene and
the second, this time principal, was
Marie in The Nutcracker. I had
turned 12 and the other girls were 14,
but it was a real theatrical drill with all
squabbles, intrigues, and a brutish
stage director. I quit three years later
because I was doing badly in school and
my nervous system began to fail because
of the very eccentric stage director.”
In what way was he eccentric?
“He did not treat us as children.
Maybe, it was good, but now each time
I recall his methods I am terrified.
However, I also used to play in and put
on theatrical productions.”
But you did not apply for the profession
of director.
“I was choosing between law and
philosophy. I opted for philosophy.
The four years at Kyiv Mohyla Academy
had a multiple impact on me – lec-
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tures from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and then
a student theater under the guidance
of very different directors until
11 p.m. Tetiana Shuran concurrently
taught at the Karpenko-Kary Institute
and put emphasis on the theater’s
student nature, while Andrii Prykhodko
used to say ‘We are not amateurs.
Forget this word’ and taught us to
walk on stilts, hold two-kilogram
flags, and imagine that we were main
heroes, even if we were in the background.
Thanks to the inspiration I
drew from those very different
sources, I began to hold festivals. Organizing
people, I felt that being a director
was closer to me than acting on
stage. So, I took a pause between the
bachelor’s and the master’s studies
and sent a resume to China, Japan, and
India. And suddenly a boys’ boarding
school in India invited me to teach theatrical
art. I arrived in Gwalior city,
carrying stilts, and put on a production
with 300 inmates.”
It’s difficult to imagine.
“Oh yes, it’s an interesting experience.
Almost all of them are the spoilt
children of politicians from Delhi or
Mumbai. And here I am, the only girl –
courteous and good at first glance but
a monster on stage. The schooling of
Prykhodko and Shuran came in handy:
following their instructions, I worked
with those teenagers. As part of School
Founder’s Day celebrations, I wrote a
script and put all the 300 on stilts. I
merged the street and antique theaters,
introduced the four elements,
and added Indian mythology. The city
queen, the patron of this school, rose in
amazement when six boys in golden attire,
as if they were gods, came out on
stilts – she didn’t expect to see this.
People were saying later that it was the
best school performance in the past
20 years. There was a well-known businessman
among the audience. We entered
into a conversation. As patron of
the Wistling Woods International Institute,
he suggested that I apply there.
In the long run, I found myself there at
the screenwriting department. I suffered
for six months.”
Why?
“Because, in comparison with Kyiv
Mohyla Academy, it was an insufficient
level. Having a lot of spare time, I began
to write and implement scripts. Colleagues
hated me – how on earth can a
screenwriter direct? I was idling –
what else could I do? My first short
went to a serious festival in India. I got
absorbed in it. I shot advertisements
and shorts. Then I came back to
Ukraine because I felt that I badly
needed an intellectual impetus. I decided
to finish my education and apply
to Shevchenko University’s part-time
philosophy department and to the
Karpenko Kary Institute to study
dramaturgy and film directing.”
But still you do not have a director’s
diploma. What stood in the way?
You were not admitted?
“I was admitted, though I was not
prepared. I came and was told to recite
some fable, sing a song, and make a
scene study. I had 45 minutes left. I
composed a poem on the run, recited it,
concealing my authorship. I said it
was the well-known Ukrainian poet
Sviatoslav Shylin – in fact he is my uncle
who has nothing to do with poetry,
but they liked those verses! I received
200 out of 200 points. The teachers
asked: ‘What have you done?’ ‘Here
are a few short films,’ said I. They
watched them and said: ‘Well, there’s
something to work on. Awful, of
course, but…’ In a word, I felt no inspiration
that I anticipated. I understood
after several classes that the academic
structure of philosophy is closer
to me. That was the end of the
Karpenko-Kary Institute for me. Of
course, I lack a certain foundation in
film directing, but I am creating it by
means of my own films.”
● THREE AND A HALF
And how did Three and a Half appear?
“I made a short movie at my own expense.
It is a scene in the second
episode, where a guy comes to a supposedly
chaste girl in the brothel. I
showed it to the well-known director
and producer Anurag Kashyap. He
liked it very much and said: ‘Shoot it
again with a better camera.’ He partly
funded the shooting with the same actors
and then suddenly suggested that
I make a full-length film. I went to Sri
Lanka. I had five days to write the
script. I roamed the streets and
thought, and then I hit upon an idea of
three stories in one house – about different
stages of a human life and, at the
same time, about the same family.
Kashyap approved it, but, instead of financing
this project, he advised me to
look for funds. His opinion was: ‘What
can make you a director is action, not
school, not producers. You have a computer
and all kinds of platforms, where
you can ask for money. I am testing you
with this action of your own.’”
In other words, he threw you into
water and told to swim.
“Yes. We made a video, placed an
advert at a crowdfunding platform,
raised 3,000 dollars, and contacted
many people. Luckily, 99 percent of my
team worked free of charge. They just
believed in the idea. We made a film on
a minimal budget, and we didn’t know
until the last moment whether or not we
would succeed – we just could not
shoot for more than three days due to
budget crunch. Because of this, I had to
come to compromises with actors. Almost
none of them gave as much time
for preparation as I needed. Unfortunately,
this is a problem in India. Sometimes,
when I watch the film, I close my
eyes or ears. But the dilemma is: either
you shoot here and now, or don’t shoot
at all.”
Where did you take these plots
from?
“In a way, they correspond to my
sometimes absolutely illogical course of
thoughts. At the same time, I can explain
it now. Where is the elderly couple
in the third episode from? It’s very
simple: this is my vision of myself
at 70. I’m afraid the value of the ‘ego’
I feel now will be changing by force of
certain circumstances – social, psychological,
and physiological. I don’t
know what I will be like at that time.
Moreover, I tried to have a dialog with
myself as if I were a man. So, there is
always an ‘ego’ that is trying to understand
itself.”
And in the second episode, with a
boy and his grandfather?
“Of course, there always are bad
people. Suppose, one is 25 or 30 now,
and everybody knows he is scum. But
when he is 80 and can barely walk and
speak, they will look on him as a sweet
gramps. Reverence for old people is
deep-rooted in Indian traditions and
rites. And I found it interesting to toy
with this idea.
“On the whole, the script has four
levels. The first is the story of three
families. The second is different families
in one house. The third interpretation
is that it is the same boy at the
ages of 12, 27, and 70. And the fourth
is that these stories exist in the same
space and time, in parallel realities –
like in the string theory. We are talking
now, and someone else will be talking
here in the same way 40 years later.
Parallelly and, at the same time,
not. That’s why many dialogs cross and
some phrases and names are repeated.”
Dances in every scene…
“This means the gods play.”
The irony of the finale, when
demigod builders renovate the house
for an umpteenth time, is obvious.
They are setting up scenery for new
games.
“We don’t know what new stories
will occur there. In the third part, we
just speak about death and, through
awareness of it, about immortality.
The heroes know that they no longer
love each other and will die soon, but
they love through this awareness, so
they are immortal. This moment of
certain hope and way out knits together
all the three episodes.”
The film has unusual background
music. Why does the Ukrainian “Zozulia”
sound there?
“I heard the Vivienne Mort group’s
music in Kyiv and wrote to Daniela
[founder of the group. – Author]. She
came to India. I found her interpretation
of ‘Zozulia’ [‘Cuckoo.’ – Ed.] interesting.
We talk about complicated
and, at the same time, naive musical
themes, while the only style that can reproduce
this complexity and naivety is
folklore. Music is a character in the
film. It is the walls. It is the house.”
Why?
“Big and motionless, the house is a
bird because, in spite of being immobile,
it travels depending on which
story it wants to see. I saw the analogy
with a cuckoo as a metaphor.”
The song also calls up the right
mood. It’s so bitter and sweet.
“Music is always a big question for
Indian audiences. We used Indian instruments,
but still there is something
strange and foreign in it. They even
thought it was the Japanese language,
can you fancy that? What I like in cinema
is the touch of something different.
There’s certain marginality in both the
music and the visual imagery.”
Incidentally, how well is Three
and a Half received in India?
“I was surprised that people were
not falling asleep. My film is slow,
while they are used to rapid action.
Most of the spectators were surprised
with a so long shot, and elderly people
were full of emotions. The film receives
warm welcomes at festivals.
Festivals in Kerala draw extraordinary
audiences, although they consist
of ordinary people, not movie buffs. A
rickshaw is taking you to some place
and says: ‘I don’t like Fellini, you see.
Tarkovsky is much better.’ My students
don’t watch Tarkovsky, but he does! So
it is the best place for you to test your
film. People laughed, cried, and applauded
at all the shows.”
● THE FUTURE AND TANGO
What are your next projects?
“Namdev Bhau in Search of Silence.
It involves 20 people and has a
budget of 17,000 dollars, of which we
had to reimburse 10,000. We went to
the mountains and shot the film on a
small camera. I never disclosed it because
it really looked as if we had done
it on a big one.”
How did you manage to do so?
“I found a cameraman of genius,
who photographed for National Geographic
and Vogue. He came from a
small village and had never studied
this. At first he worked as photographer
of our first film. We were astonished
when we saw his photographs. I
think he is India’s only cameraman
capable of taking pictures with a small
Panasonic as if it were a serious professional
camera.”
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SOCIE T Y No.45 SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 7
Severalreasonsforvying
in Den’s Photo Contest
By Dmytro DESIATERYK, The Day
Den’s annual Photo Contest is open for submissions.
Sounds formal, but in reality this is a
great opportunity for people who regularly use
their cameras. Below are some of the reasons
why you should vie in this competition:
■ because it is one of Ukraine’s most prestigious
events in the field;
■ because it is one of Ukraine’s oldest photo
contests, launched 19 years ago;
■ because the judging is done by experienced
and demanding professionals;
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■ because the photos selected will be seen
across Ukraine. Over the past 19 years, a total of
129 itinerant photo exhibits have visited regional/oblast
and district/raion centers, on an
annually increasing scale;
■ because there are several prizes courtesy
of the Editors and their partners, which means
that good photos stand a good chance of winning
awards;
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awarded over the years;
■ because, apart from the Ukrainian World,
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standing open to photographers
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is a genre in which one has
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■ because this year
marks the Photo Contest’s
20th anniversary, so you
stand a chance of going down
in Ukrainian history.
How to beat the blues?
The Ukrainian-Italian film Easy receives the Venice
Film Festival’s Kineo Diamonds Award
By Alisa ANTONENKO
A Ukrainian-made film was awarded a prize
at the 75th Venice International Festival, one of
the world’s largest cine forums.
“It is a very important award which clearly
demonstrates competitiveness of the Ukrainian
film industry. Ukrainian cinema is making itself
known not only on the domestic market, but also
worldwide. The Venice Festival award confirms
again that Ukrainian culture is part of European
culture and that Ukraine is sure to find its place
in the family of Western democracies,” Yuliia
Cherniavska, a producer of Easy, commented to
Detector Media.
Kineo Diamonds Award, a special prize of
the Venice Festival, is being conferred for the
16th consecutive year. The prize jury consists of
critics, film journalists and producers. In the
past 15 years, the prize has been awarded to
Giuseppe Tornatore, Laura Morante, Bernardo
Bertolucci, Ennio Morricone, Nastassja Kinski,
Matteo Garrone, Claudia Cardinale, Susan
Sarandon, Natalie Portman, Marco Bellocchio,
and others.
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as a photographer, being
a journalist, writing features
– except that photography
was my hobby, so I’d
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of what I thought was interesting
– until it came time to
assess my photos. It was then
I realized I needed an unbiased
professional opinion. I
got it during Den’s Photo
Contest. It was then I understood
in which direction to
move, what themes to look
for, and that some of my pictures
were really good. Therefore,
my advice is: Waste no
time, join the competition.»
It will be recalled that the dramatic comedy
Easy is the story of a once agile racer Isidoro who
has won 17 Formula-3 championships, but is now
just Isi, a silent, depressed, and fat man. But life
gives him a chance to change everything. His
brother asks him to help carry… the body of a
Ukrainian, who died at his enterprise, to the border,
hand over the coffin to the right person, and
that’s all. But the hero will find it not at all easy
to change…
The film stars Nicola Nocella – it is his first
big role in cinema.
The making of the dramatic-comedian road
movie Easy, directed by Andrea Magnani, was
funded 58 percent by the Ukrainian side (20 percent
by the Ukrainian State Film Agency and
38 percent by the company Fresh Production)
and 42 percent by the Italian side, namely, by
Italy’s Ministry of Culture and an audio visual
foundation of the region Friuli-Venezia-
Giulia.
Incidentally, Easy was also highly appreciated
last year at the Locarno Film Festival,
where Nicola Nocella, who plays Isi, was awarded,
as best actor, the Boccalino d’Oro prize of independent
Swiss film critics.
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An anatomy of propaganda has
been offered for the Motion
Picture Academy’s consideration
Serhii Loznytsia’s
Donbas will represent
Ukraine in the Oscars
competition
The Ukrainian Oscar Committee has
chosen Serhii Loznytsia’s drama
Donbas as the national contender for
the Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award.
The film, which deals with the events
in the east of Ukraine and was created by
Ukraine’s most-decorated contemporary
filmmaker, bested five other contenders in
the national selection: Volodymyr Tykhyi’s
Brama, Roman Bondarchuk’s Volcano,
Marysia Nikitiuk’s When the Trees Fall,
Akhtem Seitablaiev’s Cyborgs and the documentary
Myth, made by Leonid Kanter
and Ivan Yasnyi.
Donbas won a prize before, in Cannes
this May, where it received the Best Director
Award in the Un Certain Regard program.
On August 21, it became known
that the movie entered the long list of the
European Film Academy Awards. The
North American premiere of the drama will
be held at the Toronto Festival in the Contemporary
World Cinema section.
The film is a co-production involving
Ukraine, Germany, the Netherlands,
France, and Romania. The Ukrainian producers
were Denys Ivanov and the Arthouse
Traffic film company. The principal photography
took place in Kryvyi Rih this
winter.
Of the thirteen episodes making up the
film, only one unfolds outside the occupied
territories. The scenery for the rest is the
bloody everyday reality of “Novorossia” in
a notional eastern Ukrainian city. And
yet, the film is not just a story about the
structure of the “Russian world,” but also
one about its main weapon – propaganda,
the mechanisms of which Loznytsia analyzes
with his characteristic poignancy.
It starts with the very first frame. In the
trailer carrying a film crew, a portly and
talkative lady (Tamara Yatsenko) argues
with the make-up artist. In the next scene,
she and her fellow actors, disguised as regular
passers-by and taken to the street,
will have to act as “eyewitnesses” of a fictitious
enemy shelling, filmed against the
backdrop of a trolleybus and a car which had
been blown up beforehand. In this mad
“Novorossian” world, reality gets remade to
suit slogans. Time and space lose integrity
in this distorted coordinate system, individual
lives are just consumables, a leader
or a boss gets substituted for a hero, so no
story can end, and thus Donbas is structured
fragmentarily. With each new episode, manipulations
become both more brazen and
more skillful. In a maternity hospital, the
talkative Mykhalych (Boris Kamorzin)
stages a show for a quiet audience of white-
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coated female extras, during which he
demonstrates foodstuffs and medicines
hidden in the office of the hospital’s
thievish manager, while the latter quietly
sits it all out in the next room and
then rewards the showman with a cashfilled
envelope of the required thickness.
A group of Mongoloid-looking soldiers
tell a German journalist that they are “locals,”
but cannot specify how their home
village is called. A Ukrainian prisoner of
war is taken to a post near a bus stop with
a sign on his chest reading “exterminator,”
as his captors intend him to be
lynched. A minibus gets blown to pieces
by Russian Grad missiles, after which
the separatist vehicle accompanying it is
shot up on the road at night in an ambush
set by the liquidation team. The film
crew from the prologue is turned into actual
dead bodies for the sake of making
another news report as closing credits
roll against a static long-shot picture: a
lie biting its own tail.
Donbas’s script is based on video
clips from the Internet. Posting news
footage on the Internet is an information
activity rather than a filmmaking one.
Accordingly, Oleh Mutu, who worked
with Loznytsia in all of the latter’s feature
films, subordinates his cinematographer
individuality to the film’s
dramaturgy. He reincarnates himself into
a jumping camera in a bomb shelter,
a phone in the hands of a careless female
driver on a shelled road, and a stationary
observer in long shots. Such self-abdication
does not rule out the ethically
clear position of the author, it is simply
the only way for him to witness that
which evades witnessing, to make a
factory of irreality real.
It is neither a document nor a drama,
but rather a broad anatomical section,
and there can probably be no other
optics for a hell furnished by propaganda.
Nobody has offered such a perspective
before.
Donbas will see general release in
Ukraine on October 18.
By Dmytro DESIATERYK, The Day
By Alla PIDLUZHNA
The event, which the theatrical
community of Ukraine has been
waiting for more than two decades,
has finally happened! From now
on, the Ukrainian artistic
community will be even more cohesive, as
a new platform for a shared theatrical
game has emerged, on which theatrical
collectives from around this country will
be able to compete. Until now, only local
efforts that determined the best teams
existed in this space. The most famous of
them is the award which covers the
theater art of the capital and is known as
the Kyiv Pectoral; it is considered the
pioneer in this field and the oldest such
prize, since it was founded in 1992 on the
initiative of the Kyiv branch of the
National Theater Union of Ukraine. Last
year, the Sicheslavna Supreme Theater
Prize of the Dnieper Region, created by
the Dnipro branch of the National Theater
Union of Ukraine, celebrated its 25th
anniversary as well. And now, we are
witnessing the appearance of a new
format, a new artistic institution, which
differs from the already existing ones in
scale, concept, purpose, and potential, and
is called the All-Ukrainian Festival-
Award GRA. The National Theater Union
of Ukraine, supported by the Ministry of
Culture of Ukraine, the Ministry of
Finance of Ukraine, the Committee on
Culture and Spirituality of the Verkhovna
Rada of Ukraine, and the Department of
Culture of the Kyiv City State
Administration, became the founder and
organizer of the GRA. The author of the
idea and creative inspiration behind this
new all-Ukrainian project was the
chairman of the Theater Union, director
general and artistic director of the
National Operetta Theater Bohdan
Strutynskyi. As he was going about
reconstructing the Theater Union, his top
priority was the idea of uniting all the
theaters of the country within the
framework of such annual festival
competition, which would present the
best stage achievements of Ukraine,
further popularize the national theatrical
art in its genre diversity, and form a
decent competitive environment in
Ukraine, so that there were good grounds
for presenting our art in a global context.
As Strutynskyi noted, the festival was
invented in order to celebrate the greatest
creative achievements of artists
throughout the country in a great
theatrical game, to find and discover
new names, to evaluate the new qualities
of art as performed by already wellknown
masters. “We have to stir up our
theater movement!”
Experienced theater scholars, experts
on the international festival movement Anna
Lypkivska and Anna Veselovska worked
on the development of the concept and the
statute of the award. Taking into account
the experience of holding such events in
other countries, they developed their own
scheme for the format of the festivalaward.
It involves two components of the
event which are to work very productively:
the festival part features the best performances
entering the final, while the
prize part sees the award ceremony for the
winners. Incidentally, in addition to honorary
diplomas, the winners will receive
monetary prizes to enable them to realize
new creative projects.
The name of the festival-award is similar
to the Ukrainian word hra that denotes
the basis of the theatrical art, meaning
“play” and “game,” but at the same time
GRA is a fictitious abbreviation standing
for the Great Real Art. So the bar has been
set high, as the event will accept only
great and real art!
Determining the quality of “great
and real” entries was entrusted to 10 leading
theater scholars and musicologists. An
expert group consisting of Anna Lypkivska,
Anna Veselovska, Maia Harbuziuk,
Serhii Vasyliev, Oleh Verhelis, Liubov
A serious “game”
The theatrical Oscar competition has started
in Ukraine! It will finish in November!
VII. A DOCUDRAMA. CHERNIHIV SHEVCHENKO UKRAINIAN MUSIC AND
DRAMA THEATER
THE IMAGINARY INVALID
THE LITTLE ANGEL WHO LOST A STAR
Morozova, Liudmyla Oltarzhevska, Yana
Portola, Anna Stavnichenko, and Alla
Pidluzhna reviewed videos of 74 entries
submitted by theaters. They created a
longlist of five performances in each of six
nominations. The nominations included
the entire traditional creative spectrum:
the Best Drama Performance, the Best Performance
for Children, the Best Musical
Performance in the Genres of Opera/Operetta/Musical,
the Best Choreogra-
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phy/Ballet/Plastic Performance, the Best
Chamber Scene Performance, and the
Best Search and Experimental Performance.
After watching live performances of
all the first stage entries, a shortlist of two
performances in each nomination was created.
The work of the expert group ended
there. This fall, an authoritative international
jury will determine the winners.
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