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No.1 JANUARY 16, 2018
DAY AFTER DAY
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A “nation of immigrants”
is preparing for reform
#Oprah 2020
TV star and media mogul
Oprah Winfrey’s Golden
Globes speech is
considered her first step in
the next presidential race
By Anastasia RUDENKO, The Day
Oprah Winfrey has received
the Cecil B. DeMille Award
for outstanding contributions
to the world of entertainment.
The speech the
celebrity delivered from the stage is by
far the most significant one throughout
the history of the Golden Globes
ceremony.
In her emotional address, Winfrey
mentioned Recy Taylor, a black woman
who had died 10 days before. She was
kidnapped and raped by white men in
1944. Although she told about this
crime, the rapists were never prosecuted
because, to quote Winfrey, “justice
wasn’t an option in the era of Jim Crow.”
The TV presenter said proudly that
those days were undoubtedly gone now.
“So I want all the girls... to know
that a new day is on the horizon! And
when that new day finally dawns, it will
be because of a lot of magnificent
women, many of whom are right here in
this room tonight, and some pretty
phenomenal men, fighting hard to
make sure that they become the leaders
who take us to the time when nobody
ever has to say ‘me too’ again,” she said.
Following this brilliant speech,
Western political media and celebrities
launched the hashtag #Oprah2020,
journalists and columnists rushed to
compete in eloquence, assessing the
legendary TV presenter’s prospects in
the election race. At the same time, the
column of Ashley Feinberg in The Huffington
Post suddenly became one of the
most often quoted sources. “If we are to
be ruled by political dilettantes, some
people seem to think, why not a dilettante
beloved by all? Because Oprah is
the antithesis of Trump: a well-spoken,
incredibly smart and confident black
woman who energizes people not with
hatred and anger but with hope and vision,”
the article says. However, “Oprah
and Trump aren’t so different in their
relation to their fans. They both offer
catharsis on the cheap, with Oprah as
the liberal-values alternative to Trumpism
– a better, more humane alternative,
certainly, but the choice of a people
determined to suppress the real
conflicts at the heart of the country.”
“Fortunately, we live in a world
where we do not have only two options...
The answer is to elevate politicians
who do the politics better than the
other guys. Liberals who think their
program will prevail because of the
nobility of their character have had the
run of the Democratic Party long
enough. Time’s up on them, too,” the
columnist says.
By Natalia PUSHKARUK, The Day
Recently, lawmakers from both
major American parties –
Democratic and Republican –
agreed at a White House
meeting with President Donald
Trump to work together on
drafting a bill on immigration. According
to the Voice of America, their
effort will focus on ways to address
four major issues, including border
security, “chain migration” (legalization
of one’s residence in the US
through family connections), the
future of the visa lottery and the
“dreamers” (migrants who entered the
US illegally as children).
According to Reuters, Trump has
said he would sign a bill that would
provide a legal status to hundreds of
thousands of unregistered “dreamers”
if the document would contain
provisions on border security, including
the financing for a Mexico
border wall. “Now, that doesn’t
mean 2,000 miles of wall because you
just don’t need that... because
of mountains and rivers and lots of
other things,” said Trump and
added: “But we need a certain portion
of that border to have the wall.
If we don’t have it, you can never
have security.”
● “THE PRESIDENT IS
SHIFTING FROM A RADICAL
TO A PALLIATIVE STANCE”
The Day began a conversation
with Professor Oleksandr TSVIET-
KOV, an Americanist from Hrynchenko
University of Kyiv, by asking
how important and timely this reform
was for the US.
Expert: “The US government is looking for
new solutions to domestic policy issues”
“This is a difficult time, especially
for the White House and the political
establishment in Washington. All
recent events took place against the
background of the release of Michael
Wolff’s book offering an inside view
of the White House and a critical picture
of the formation of the political
course of the country through the
White House. In addition, no one has
ever stirred up the audience during
the Golden Globes award ceremony as
much as Oprah Winfrey did this time,
who, with her passionate speech, disturbed
the entire political milieu. She
took a stand against sexual harassment
and racial discrimination, which
was picked up by the Time’s Up feminist
movement. All this has become
the background for a political debate
on immigration.
“The thing is, when Trump was
still fighting for the presidency, he
proposed a drastic, radical approach
to immigration issues, in particular,
by taking a harsh stance on the issue
of the deportation of illegal immigrants,
who number up to 11 million
in the US.
“As of now, the two major parties
have agreed on a palliative measure, I
mean postponing for some time the
consideration of the so-called DACA
(Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals),
or in other words, delaying
the resolution of the deportation issue
regarding migrants who entered
the US illegally as children. The presidential
position on this issue has
changed. There are now three poles
emerging in the Washington political
establishment: the Republican and
Democratic parties in Congress and
the position of the president, who is
shifting somewhat away from his
previous stance, from a radical to a
palliative one.
“All this is superimposed on a new
issue – the forthcoming grand immigration
bargain that will apply to all
illegal immigrants, that is, more than
11 million residents of the US. This is
a very high-profile issue for that
country, and a shift in the president’s
position may well become that additional
factor that will resolve the issue
that the previous three presidents had
failed to resolve.
“Therefore, this kind of change of
course and such an opportunity
emerging against the background of
obstruction in political life regarding
the White House and the political establishment
draws attention.”
Trump insists that the bill should
include a provision for a wall to be
built along the border with Mexico. In
your opinion, which aspects should
this migration reform take into account?
“The wall is a tribute to the president’s
previous radical speeches,
after all. The question of child illegal
migrants will be of greatest importance,
and it is likely to be resolved in
accordance with the two parties’ approaches,
as well as the forthcoming
A “roof” over international journalism
Den has been honored with an award for coverage of international topics
Photo by Ruslan KANIUKA, The Day
By Natalia PUSHKARUK, The Day
On January 10, this newspaper
received a certificate
from the Ukrainian Prism
Foreign Policy Council for
covering the field of international
relations and foreign policy in
our publication. When presenting the
award, chairman of the Ukrainian Prism
Foreign Policy Council Hennadii
MAKSAK said: “We sum up annually
what happens in foreign policy. This
year, since we marked the centennial of
Ukrainian diplomacy in it, we decided
to conduct an expert survey and ask not
only which diplomats were doing better
in their jobs, but also which journalists
were more professional in the field of
external relations. It is important to
keep making such assessments, because
we must understand who are doing
their jobs professionally, and in which
fields.”
“It is obvious that the newspaper
Den, and, in particular, our international
affairs editor Mykola Siruk, is
what holds the ‘roof’ over international
journalism,” Den’s editor-in-chief
Larysa Ivshyna said during the event.
“I do not like when people say sometimes
that there is no international
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS EDITOR OF THE NEWSPAPER DEN MYKOLA SIRUK
DURING A TRIP TO ISRAEL IN OCTOBER 2009, SURROUNDED BY ISRAELI
FEMALE SOLDIERS IN THE NEGEV VALLEY, NEAR THE GRAVE AND HOUSE
MUSEUM OF THE FOUNDER OF THE ISRAELI STATE DAVID BEN-GURION