On the Comprehensive Study and Objective Elucidation of the Activities of the Ukrainian Liberation Movement and Assistance to the Process of National Reconciliation
In order to consolidate and develop the Ukrainian nation, to establish historical justice in regard to the participants of the Ukrainian liberation movement, to facilitate the process of national reconciliation and mutual understanding, and the restoration of national memory, I hereby decree that:
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine:
(1) will formulate a series of measures for 2006-2007 together with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, aimed at the comprehensive study and objective elucidation of the participation of Ukrainians in the Second World War and other military conflicts, specifically envisaging:
* carrying out fundamental scholarly research, scholarly-practical conferences, international seminars, and roundtables;
* publishing historical and semi-popular literature on these questions;
* organizing, producing, and screening semi-popular films and documentary-journalistic broadcasts;
* conducting appropriate explanatory and enlightening work, especially by the mass media;
(2) will develop, in collaboration with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, with the inclusion of the specialist finding of the working group of historians attached to the Governmental Commission for the Study of the Activity of the OUN and the UPA, a draft law on the Ukrainian liberation movement of the 1920s-1950s, the status and social protection of its participants, which will envisage recognition of the activity of organizations that fought for the Ukrainian Independent United State in the 1920s-1950s, by the Ukrainian liberation movement.
2. The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, in collaboration with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, will secure:
(1) comprehensive and objective elucidation in the schooling-educational process of questions concerning the participation of Ukrainians in the Second World War, other military conflicts of the 20th century, the activity of the Ukrainian liberation movement, especially the activity of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the Ukrainian Liberation Organization, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, and the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council;
(2) the application of research by national scholars on the liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people in the programs of general education and schools of higher education.
3. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine, the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea, oblast, Kyiv and Sevastopil municipal state administrations will ensure the renewal of museum expositions that reflect events connected to the Ukrainian liberation movement of the 1920s-1950s, particularly during the Second World War.
4. The State Television and Radio Committee of Ukraine will ensure broad coverage in the mass media of measures aimed at consolidating Ukrainian society, studying the role, place, and meaning of the Ukrainian liberation movement, establishing historical and social justice, protection of the rights of the participants in the Ukrainian liberation movement.
14 October 2006
(The text of the edict is posted on the Web site of the Press Service of the President of Ukraine.)
