We need a new
decree about land.
Kurultay will
be held in November.
Every third
Simferopol resident is a pensioner.
Specialists'
diagnosis: unemployment in Crimea has got a stagnant character.
Doesn't
unemployment have a woman's face?
Politics.
We need a new decree about
land.
On September 5, the widened sitting of
Bakhchisaray regional Mejlis was held. The main issue, which has already become
a political one, to be discussed was allotting land to the Crimean Tatars. This
issue is extremely urgent in the region.
The chairman of Republic Committee of Land, who
came out at the sitting claimed that he had no right to violate legislation,
and this issue wasn't even worth discussing. The only implication he put
forward was taking Crimean Tatars' rights, who had worked in agriculture
complexes, into account when dividing land plots. But this implication has
already been rejected by the government of Ukraine.
The chairman of regional mejlis and the deputy
of the head of Bakhchisaray district administration, I.Umerov explained that
the government and deputies had passed a decision to create a commission from
the deputies of local Councils and mejlis members, who would find a certain
number of Crimean residents willing to return a part of their land plots for
the sake of the Crimean Tatars that have remained without any land at all.
However, it later turned out to be a hopeless decision. The sitting participants
reached an agreement that it was necessary to demand that the President should
adopt a new Decree on land, which would take into account Crimean Tatars'
demands.
In result, the sitting participants adopted a
statement, which, in particular, said: "
Although the President of
Ukraine gave the following commission at the sitting of the Council of Crimean
Tatars' representatives yet on May 11: "find some variants of solution to
this problem under the frameworks of the current legislation", no
department proposed a single variant. And the letter of Bakhchisaray district
administration addressed to S.Kunitsyn mentioning the necessity of re-division
and possibility of solving this problem using reserve lands was negatively
responded saying it was impossible to re-divide the lands.
Everywhere in Crimea, including Bakhchisaray
district, reserve lands are being actively distributed among the newly accepted
CAE* members, instead of searching for variants and discussing them.
If real ways of allotting land to the Crimean
Tatars are not found soon, they'll again have to find ways out of this problem
themselves using extreme methods.
The partial attitude of the Office of Public
Prosecutor towards Crimean Tatars' cases was also emphasized. The sitting
participants were cited the statement of the district Prosecutor insulting
people's honor and dignity. "For me the Jewish, the Crimean Tatars and
b
es are the same thing". There has been no reaction as for the demand
that the Prosecutor should be fired.
Leylya Alyadinova, "Golos Krima", #38 (357), 15 September
2000, p.1.
Our information: *CAE
stands for Collective Agriculture Enterprise.
The closer the opening of the sixth session of
Crimean parliament comes, where the issue of dismissing the government will
arise again, the more aggressive the skirmish of VR* speaker, Leonid Grach and
the PM, Sergey Kunitsyn, to which the representative of the President, Anatoliy
Korneychuk has joined, becomes. Grach made a speech on television, and on the next
day his two opponents made a response fight with him. We can distinctly observe
the main issues, which will be discussed for a long time.
The issue number one: The Council's of
Ministers recent decision to increase the tariffs for public utilities
Leonid Grach: "This is a political provocation
<
> I recommend that the
government should decline its decision itself. The Parliament will abolish it
anyway <...>
Sergey Kunitsyn: "The VR cannot abolish government's
decision. It can only be abolished in case if it contradicts the legislation.
But it doesn't, it is lawful. The price of public utilities hasn't been
increased for three and a half years. Communal enterprises are about to go
bankrupt. Their workers haven't got their salaries for 10-12 months. Together
with families they make up 75 thousand people. L.I.** used different phrases
about political provocations. We mustn't increase the tension of this
issue".
Anatoliy Korneychuk was struck by the fact that
"for some reason this campaign was being developed under the slogan of
protecting indigents. Moreover, he emphasized that "the autonomy cost us a
pretty price that day": 4,7 million grivnas*** have been foreseen for
keeping hundreds of people in the apparatus of Supreme Council of Crimea, and
for fifteen VR members - 2,3 more million grivnas!"
Will the government be dismissed on October 1?
Leonid Grach: "We have passed a decision to dismiss the government. On October
1, the current membership of the government is obliged, I repeat - is obliged to
step down. The problem is: will the parliament use services of the current
government on October 2?"
Sergey Kunitsyn: "There is a Constitution of Ukraine, and
the President is its guarantor, there is a conclusion of Judicial Ministry that
VR's decision to dismiss the government was not legitimate. And on this ground,
the resolution of dismissing the government has been recognized unlawful. If
the President agrees upon the dismissal, as it has to be according to the
Constitution, we will step down <
>
A "lyric" topic.
Recent victory in the contest for the best text
of the Crimean Tatar national anthem, organized by the wife of Minister of
Culture, Olga Golubeva and her husband's simultaneous proposal to allocate 18
thousand grivnas**** to the authors of music and text each, and 150 thousand
grivnas for recording the anthem, couldn't leave anyone indifferent.
Leonid Garch: "This is very important for Crimea. We really need to say all
about the importance and value of Crimea <
> we need something that would
unite us, and I thing it has already happened".
Sergey Kunitsyn: "I have read the anthem. I will not vote
for it. I came out against the submitted estimate for the anthem by the
Minister of Culture. It turns out that Olga Golubeva will get a 3650 grivnas royalties
for each word. We will go against any rule of ethics if we allocate 150
thousand grivnas for the anthem under the conditions of an urgent deficiency in
the autonomy".
Alexey Nezhivoy,
Kira Ivanova, "Krimskoye Vremya", #170 (1037), 15 September 2000,
p.3.
Our information: *VR
stands for Verkhovna Rada - the Parliament of Crimea.
**L.I. stands for Leonid Ivanovich - speaker of Crimean parliament and
the head of Crimean communists.
***1 US$=5,4 grivnas.
****Average salary in budget organizations accounts 120-150 grivnas.
Kurultay will be held in
November.
On September 12, the first sitting of
organizational group on preparing for the third session of Kurultay 3 was held
in Mejlis. The group consists of 10 members.
In the course of the sitting they distributed
obligations on the issues of preparing mandates of Kurultay delegates,
invitation cards, making the lists of Kurultay delegates and guests, making the
timetable of goings out to conferences in regions, expenses estimates, and also
mounting of the premises. Holding of the third session of Kurultay 3 is planned
for the end of November.
Leylya Alyadinova, "Golos Krima", #38 (357), 15 September
2000, p.1.
In the mirror of statistics.
Every third Simferopol
resident is a pensioner.
According to the data of July 1, 2000 the
population of Simferopol is 360169 people. Of them 296569 are adults, 63600 are
children who are less than 16. The able-bodied urban population accounts 210100
people. Practically every third resident of Simferopol is a pensioner. Of the
total number of pensioner some 16 thousand residents get minimum and social
pensions that equal 46 grivnas.
"Krimskoye Vremya", #167 (1034), 12 September 2000, p.2.
Specialists' diagnosis:
unemployment in Crimea has got a stagnant character.
The average duration of work searches by
unemployed Crimean residents last year accounted 9 months, besides the duration
of their being unemployed was two times longer - 18 months. Among the main
reasons of unemployment, listed by respondents were firings connected with
reorganization, liquidation or conversion of production, decreasing the number
of personnel, retiring on personal wishes, difficulty to find a job after
graduating from an educational institution.
More than a half of so-called inactive
population 61,4% - were the able-bodied citizens last year. The number of
unemployed residents aged from 15 to 70, who have stopped their job-hunting,
because of losing a hope to find one, equaled 36,7 thousand last year.
Unemployment in Crimea has got a stagnant
character. This problem is especially urgent for the youth. About a quarter of
all unemployed Crimean residents (24,7%) are people aged from 15 to 24.
Alla Alyeshina, "Krimskoye Vremya", #168 (1035), 13 September
2000, p.6.
Doesn't unemployment have a
woman's face?
The death rate in Crimea, according to the
results of the first six months of 2000 has exceeded the birth-rate by two
times. Statistic indices, characterizing the rate of unemployment are several
times higher than those in the center of occupation. It is connected with the
fact that not everyone, who loses his job applies for help to this center.
The inflation index for the last year equaled
100 in Ukraine. Among goods, the most substantial was the increasing of prices
for meat products - 6% and for petroleum - 11%.
I.Sazonova, "Krimskiye Izvestiya", #166 (2170), 12 September
2000, p.5.
History, culture.
Kerch is celebrating its 2600th
anniversary these days. A solemn meeting, devoted to this celebration was held
in the city.
Celebration measures, devoted to the jubilee of
Kerch are still being held in the city.
Natalya Ilyina, "Krimskaya Pravda", #170 (22583), 16 September
2000, p.1.
"Rainbow" festival was held in the multinational
children center "Melevshe" ("Violet"). Unprofessional but
very talented children dancing and singing collectives, representatives of all
non-governmental children organizations of Crimea took part in the festival.
Children demonstrated their singing and dancing art, and the concerts were held
with a great success.
"Melevshe" center was created a year
ago under the support of International "Soros" fund and the Embassy
of Canada to Ukraine. Its duty is to create conditions for a many-sided development
of children belonging to different nationalities, and living not in big towns,
where almost all the measures are held but in villages.
S.Kiryanova,
"Krimskiye Izvestiya", #169 (2173), 15 September 2000, p.4.
The decorative-applied exhibition of Crimean
Tatars' art in the 18-20th centuries "Eski ornek"
or an "Antique pattern" has been opened. The collection, presented by
the Republic Crimean Tatar museum of arts, has an artistic and historical
value. Its exhibits were collected and preserved during the period of
deportation and after a time returned to the motherland to the real
connoisseurs of national art.
The exhibition introduces us with the works of
Crimean masters, who have an unusually poetic perception of the world and the ability
to incarnate their thoughts into highly artistic make - authentic work of art.
R.Eminova, "Krimskiye Izvestiya", #168 (2172), 14 September
2000, p.7.
On September 17, an unusual exhibition was opened
in Simferopol museum of Arts. The works of school-studio "Clay
patterns" are presented in it. What makes it unusual is that the works
were made by children, who showed the exhibits and told the exhibition guests
about their achievements.
In April 1999, International "Soros"
fund created a children ceramic school-studio "Clay Patterns" on the
basis of Republic Crimean Tatar museum of arts. In the course of this period
100 children of different nationalities have studied there. Children are taught
the basic knowledge of painting, modeling and ceramics here.
The instructors of the school-studio are
professional artists-ceramists, Seit-Ametov Abdyul and Yakubov Rustem and the
leader of the studio - Asanova Fatime have developed the program, which places
deep and vital aims - to teach and bring up children. In the basis of their
artistic and pedagogical activity are the attempt to develop individuality of
an apprentice and a wish to teach him how to work.
Before the solemn opening of the exhibition
they held a concert of a children amateur ensemble "Ak-Mechet
Yildizlari" ("Stars of Ak-Mechet") from Simferopol, who
caused a great deal of applause by their ingenious performance.
Gathered information.