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Ukraine honors Robert Conquest with Presidential Medalof Honor
STANFORD, Calif. - Ukraine's ambassador to the United States, Dr. OlehShamshur came to Stanford University on June 15 to lecture and present theUkrainian Presidential Medal of Honor to Dr. Robert Conquest.
John Dunlop, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, skillfully moderatedthe event that included public policy discussion and a very emotional ceremony.
The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) andUkrainian Studies at Stanford University hosted this unique event.
Dr. Shamshur addressed a very enthusiastic crowd of about 120 peoplefrom Stanford and the Ukrainian community with a short lecture titled "MaturingDemocracy: Ukraine after the Orange Revolution" and then graciouslyparticipated in a very lively question and answer period.
As the title of his address indicated, there was a great deal of interestin the ambassador's thoughts on the Orange Revolution. "The post-Sovietperiod of the Ukraine is over," he said, adding that he is convincedthat parliamentary elections in March 2006 which were "the last testof Ukraine on the road to democracy," demonstrated the support of Ukraine'svoters for the political leaders and parties that worked together duringthe Orange Revolution.
Dr. Shamshur emphasized that the government needs time to put into operationlegislative and other reforms to improve standards of living, as well asto increase foreign investment.
The ambassador pointed to "Judicial reform, which is also one ofthe ways to fight the current corruption of the bureaucracy, and bring aboutreform in energy production, which will make Ukraine less dependent on importedgas and oil." He added, "Instead, Ukraine will develop a strongernuclear energy program, even if it is a hard decision in the land of Chornobyl.[Our plans] in the international sphere are to join NATO and to preparefor joining the European Union."
At the same time, the envoy underlined that maintaining good relationswith Russia is a cornerstone of Ukrainian foreign policy.
Commenting on the relationship between Ukraine and the U.S., AmbassadorShamshur said that the two countries are working together on the war againstterror, and promoting human rights, fighting organized crime and human trafficking,and stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Speaking of the business ties between Ukraine and the U.S., he definedfour major areas in which obstacles to closer cooperation and greater investmenthave recently been removed: Jackson-Vanik restrictions have been eradicated;a bilateral protocol was developed, which aids Ukraine's entry into theWorld Trade Organization; sanctions imposed in 2000 for intellectual propertyrights infringements were lifted; and Ukraine was recognized by the U.S.as a country with a market economy.
The true highlight of the entire event was the presentation of the UkrainianPresidential Medal of Yaroslav Mudryi, named for the Kyivan prince knownas a law-giver and patron of the Church and the arts (early 1000s) to Dr.Conquest, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, in recognition of hispath-breaking scholarship on the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 in "Harvestof Sorrow" (1986).
The medal is the highest honor bestowed by Ukraine. Ambassador Shamshurextolled Dr. Conquest's lifelong commitment to scholarly focus on this long-ignoredsubject.
"For a new democratic Ukraine, you are a real national hero ...You have done a real outstanding feat for Ukraine. You have done a serviceto humanity," Dr. Shamshur underscored. Then, on behalf of UkrainianPresident Viktor Yuschenko, the ambassador asked Dr. Conquest to visit Ukrainein August for the celebration of Ukrainian Independence Day.
"Ukraine," he said, "needs to know and understand itshistory in order to be able to make the right decisions for the future,and this is why the ground-breaking books of Dr. Conquest are so importantfor the developing Ukrainian democracy and its current and future generationsof historians," Ambassador Shamshur concluded.
At the end of the medal presentation, the crowd spontaneously sang "MnohayaLita," wishing Dr. Conquest many years in his endeavors.
Ilja Gruen, a third-year scholar in the Slavic Ph.D. program, escortedDr. Conquest, and his wife, Dr. Elizabeth Conquest, to the event.
Dr. Conquest expressed very deep thanks for the honor, which is rarelypresented outside of Ukraine. He posed for many photos and answered manyquestions. He and his wife were then presented with the traditional Ukrainiangift of a wreath of bread and salt.
The Conquests stayed for most of the reception that followed, as didAmbassador Shamshur and his entourage - all of them participating in veryanimated discussions.
Dr. Conquest has received many forms of high recognition for his lifelongcommitment to scholarship on Ukraine. His awards and honors include theJefferson Lectureship, the highest honor the federal government bestowsfor achievement in the humanities (1993); the Alexis de Tocqueville Award(1992); the Richard Weaver Award for Scholarly Letters (1999); the FondazioneLiberal Career Award (2004); and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005).
He is the author of more than 20 books on various Soviet topics and morethan seven volumes of poetry. A brief biography can be found on his webpageat the Hoover Institution:http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/conquest.html.
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