Kyiv International Session (KIS) 2006 Newspaper Issue 5

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This is it, you are holding the 5th and last is-sue of “KIS & tell” in your hands. We can not hide how proud we are of these 6 newspapers, winning the fights against printers, photocopi-ers, multiplicator plugs, USB sticks, viruses and empty bottles, as well as our tired and hungry bodies.

These 6 issues, though, would never have been printed without the efforts of many partici-pants at the session. We are extremely grateful to Sasha Andrusyk íhead organiser) for all the hugs and affection, and for always wearing a smile. Thanks for listening to us, never saying no to our requests but always creative solutions, and providing us with the pressroom pal-ace. Not to forget Jan-Phillipp Beck (president, DE), who has served been our guardian angel throughout the session, being available and approachable when needed.

Truly a LOT of credits to Hadrian Loets (organiser, DE) for the huge effort he made during the session, and for not giving up on the copying machine; the fact that the 1st issue got printed is all due to you. And thanks to Stas Uimenov (organiser), for always staying positive and spreading joy to the pressroom.

Now, the chairs have found mysterious ways of contributing to the newspaper; we would especially like to thank Klara Sebakova (chair, CH) for screaming weard phrases in Norwe-gian in the pressroom at three o`clock in the morning, giving us the much needed escapes from commas and pyting rerrors.

Still, the people who we are the most proud of and thankful to, can be found within our pressroom; a huge thank you to our super lapitadous giganpidis fabulous journos. You have endured the two M’s, worked like no one else and still never forgot to take care of each other and oh, yes, the journo parties. Thank you Lelde, Gillian, Roxy, Bella, Lorenz, Fillip, Joe, Valentina, Alex, Marco, Javi, Tanja, Ivar and Karolina! We will never forget how some of you fell asleep on the couch in the middle of a party, or the time we all climbed up on the tree to take the perfect group picture. Throughout the last days, M&M have mostly stayed in the pressroom, yet we feel we have participated at every single event, committee and place through your ears and eyes. The paper is all your work; be proud of it!

Last but not least, to all the delegates; better raw material can hardly be found. And thanks to teachers and delegates for using Thee Box! To those we have forgotten, thank you.

We hope many continue within the EYP and stay involved for years to come. See you at the summer session!

M&M

EditorialBy M&M

Our last words

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Vova recalls his home town as not being very developed and described it as “not as nice as [western] Europe”. He reports that there were very few supermarkets if any, and that it was difficult to buy cer-tain goods such as European clothing. As the Iron curtain fell, the variety of products obviously increased. Howev-er, in the immediate post-So-viet period, not eve-rything changed to the better: “People had become ruder. Everybody did as they pleased, and the situation was similar to anarchy”. The government seemed powerless against these prob-lems.He then went on to describe the po-litical part young people play today

in Ukraine. Ac-cording to Vova, there are a lot of student organisations

which are fi-nanced by political parties. Non-partisan organisations do exist but are not very known, as most young Ukrainians regard improv-ing their standard of living through work as more im-portant than poli-tics, he explains.On the other hand, the

ideological division between the western and eastern parts of Ukraine is in his opin-ion very apparent; whereas the western part believes in the European Ukraine, the eastern part is affiliated with ‘mother Russia’. Speaking of the future of

Ukraine, his dream is to see it develop year by year and become more stable in order to attract tour-ists. Further on, he regards Ukraine’s accession to the EU as “very useful” for economic development, because they will get inte-grated into the markets of developed countries.His advice to the readers: “Do not worry about the past, dream about the fu-ture”, a principle he cer-tainly practices himself.

Vova: A Ukrainian youthBy DareDevil

Volodymyr Reshota is a Ukrainian 21-year-old organiser who experienced the Soviet collapse as a child. In an interview, he shares how he sees Ukraine now and in the future.

People had become rud-er. Everybody did as they

pleased, and the situation was similar to anarchy”

“

Do not worry about the past, dream about the future”“


Who said politicians can’t sing?By elektra anD roMeo

During the Opening Ceremony, Ruslana Lyzhychko showed us that politics and performing in fact can be combined. On Thursday evening, artistic EYPers proved her right when the KIS participants and supporters invaded the Con-servatoire in Kiev for Euroconcert. The “KIS & tell” journalists now unravel the messages which could potentially be concealed within the night’s perform-ances.Albert Carrillo and Javier Conejos (ES) paraded onto the stage in white and black

suits performing a wonder-ful piano duet. The colours of their suits were obviously chosen on purpose in order to illustrate that it does not matter if you are black or white.

Klara Sébàkova (chair, CZ) and Ance Kaleja (chair, LV) proclaimed with sensual hip movement that the most pressing issues “can’t wait until to-night”. To ensure that the perform-ance received media coverage, these girls involved one of the kings of Journovia, Michel Hochstrasser (editor, CH) in their singing sensation.

The Belgian pair

Bram Vogels and Kelly de Rooms broke the stone face of politicians and touched the

deepest string of our hearts with their “Ro-manza”.

With his hand securely rest-ing on his belt buckle, William Fisher (UK) pro-fessed his posi-tive attitude

towards increased efforts to conquer space with Sinatra’s “Fly me to the moon”.

The presenters, Sonja Weick-er (organizer, DE) and Finnian Hanrahan (chair, IE) guided us through the night’s per-formances in fairy-tale style, depicting bribery and deceit, which are essential when it comes to politics in general:

“Do you know what that stupid frog got me? A water lilly! Does he really think I’m that cheap?” exclaimed Son-ja. “I’ve always been a frog. I just wanted the kiss.” explained Finnian Hanra-han, (chair, IE).

John Joy’s (IE) fingers flew across the keys when per-forming Bach’s “Solfegghet-to”: the perfect anthem for all quick and efficient politi-cians.

To effectively address all the crucial political issues, we need to improve our relations and work together as “One”. This is might be the message that Erik Sergio Aukeland’s is trying to convey “Bono-style”.

The French delegation and modern Edit Piaf depicted love for their country in their charming and douce version of “Douce France”.

The longest love song ever performed at a Euroconcert

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was sung by Chris Tripp. He sang it in some 20 languages. His positive feeling towards animal rights and a multicul-tural community were appar-ent.

We were blown away by the cheer power of Valentina Vi-tolo’s voice, proving that one person can make a huge a difference.

Warren Luk (UK), backed up by a fellow countryman, transmitted a message politi-cians should be given more often: “You say it best, when you say nothing at all”.

Rui Vaconcelos (PT), yet an-other skilled pianist, proves that it is better to be short, yet impressive than long and insignificant.

A new dreamy version of a Romanian classic with the panflute from Alex Pal (RO) gave an excellent example of how to bring old set ideas up to date.

A tribute to the stars was sung by Ingrid Fast and Ve-ronika Fafienski (DE), making us all rethinks our outlook on life and lifting us up where we belong.

The lovely KIS organ-ising team s h o w e d us all how to cooper-ate, as they stamped -ed on the stage per-f o r m i n g the only

piece in Euroconcert without music.

We walked up and down mu-sical stairs with the colourful and original stylings of Wojtek Keblowski’s (PL) three piano preludes of Rachmaninoff, urging us not to conform.

Being a politician means you have to know how to get yourself out of uncomfortable situations. Gillian O’Halloran (IE) showed us how to do it laughing her way out of it with her impressive perform-ance “The Laughing Song” by Strauss.

Danny Vannucchi (IT) had an emotional message to con-vey to all the KIS politicians, as “Time of your life” by Green Day filled the room.

No one was left unmoved by the two final songs and the end of Euroconcert: the performers version of “Stand by me” and the EYP “anthem” “Imagine”, which reminds us all to keep dreaming. Politics

would be pointless without a vision for the future.


Game LoversBy lois lane

ITRE gets energisedPassionate about energis-ers, the members of the ITRE committee passed the Zulu dance challenge set for them by the journos with flying colours, but deserve even more publicity for their fun attitude. During lunch, they were spotted playing a rapid round of the “hand chain” and at their committee din-ner they spent almost an hour indulging the “pointing game”. That’s the spirit we like to see at EYP. Combin-ing work and play is a special skill and ITRE are good at it.

AFET II - I like!By Cleopatra

The Committee on Foreign Affairs has completed its resolution with 100% suc-cess. Since they were done with their work one hour ahead of schedule they de-cided to play a Teambuilding game. What better then than “Honey, tell me that you love me”! Eric Katzkowsky (Chair, EE) managed to make Stanislav Beletskiy (RU) laugh, whilst Neoclis Neocleous (CY), in his desperate efforts to get Irish Ryan O’Hagan to laugh, decided to climb on him. But his efforts were in vain, as making Irish Ryan O’Hagan, Portuguese Xavier Cardoso and the Belgian Joachim Lommelen to laugh proved to be impossible.

The committee’s measures, 110-�9-1�By DareDevil

Resolution passed: It had been predicted that no-body would put up an effective stand against the DREAM team.

At the far right corner of the beautifully crafted assembly hall, shone the stars of Hu-man Rights III. It was a nice wake-up for them today.The game started when Ari-ane Lebot (FR) read out the operative clauses [in French of course]. We were all wondering who was bold enough to attack; the only one that dared were Se-curity and Development. Following this, Jelena Bra-tonozic (SR) answered in detail the only point of information. It was now time for John Joy (IE) to prove his talent as a speaker. He barely looked at his speech when he passionately defended the resolution. Nevertheless, the battle had only begun. Following a se-ries of debate questions, Vlada Soucup (CZ) was rec-ognised for the first stand. In the meantime, disorder occurred in the ranks of the

committee. Mela-nie Staehelin (CH) was not fully pre-pared when it was her turn to speak; the only help she received was an abstract drawing, which could only be used to de-scribe our expert’s

painting.As the debate continued, Niklas Herpertz (DE) an-swered the third set of ques-tions well. Marcos Pinho (PT) was the last one to get the microphone. However, he got so excited he forgot which point he was answer-ing. Elisabeth Häggquist (SE)

and Julia Khurchakova (UA) took the last stand against trafficking in their sum-up speech.Chair Karlis Lapsa (SE) could not be more proud about his delegates, Katarina Allev (EE) who couldn’t be there to share the moment.

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On a dark and misty Ukrain-ian morning, sparkling elec-tricity was lighting up the spirits within the GA venue in Kyiv. The Minister for Youth, Family and Sport Yuri Pav-lenko gave a warm welcome to the gathered participants on behalf of the Ukrainian president.

The president has a positive outlook for the EYP and the host country: “Ukraine’s view is the realisation of its future.” Further on, he regards the Opening of General Assem-bly a “wonderful opportuni-ty to share your own experi-ences” and hopes that “wise decisions will be the parts of Ukrainian policy.”Conluding this short letter from the president, the min-

ister wished for the loing ex-perience of these 10 days to “remain in your lives.”

SEDEBy Juliette

Just heardJames Millington (UK) fears heights. Unfortunately for him, travelling by metro on the night of committee din-ner involved climbing and descending a long escalator to get to the surface and then taking the same route to go back. Luckily, the security of a safe walk was assured by his fellow delegates.

While the Ukrainian football fans headed home after the Champion League match on Thursday, DROI II delegates were on the way to the hotel having satisfied the wildest culinary cravings during the committee dinner. The two parallel incidents found their meeting point in the form of the lovely Kathryn Peery (UK). When approaching the under-ground, this British delegate was chatted up by a random Ukrainian football enthusi-ast. Finding out that Kathryn comes form Birmingham, the man spontaneously shared with her the memories of his visit to London. He must have had a really nice stay in the UK, or more likely, Kathryn’s femi-nine charm was extremely ap-pealing, because at the end of the small talk he gave her his Dynamo Kiev scarf. How good looks can connect countries.

DROI IIBy Mrs. sMith

Tied together with a football scarf

Minister for Youth, Family and Sport welcomes EYP to UkraineBy superMan

“Europe starts with you” - President of Ukraine Victor Yuschenko


Starting with the hon-orable President of KIS, who was explaining the points of order:

“If we screw up, you raise the placard.” - What an elegant expression, Mr. President. Vice-President Sille in her most menacing voice: “Do not play around with the placards, because you are going to be punished.” -We wonder how? Just before coffee

break Vice-Presi-dent Chris Tripp, not trusting Ukrain-ian watches, com-

manded: “Be here at 11:30 - Ger-

man time.” I LOVE FOOD. Hungry EMPL delegates thought it unnecessary to tell the board members how much they love them, but instead expressed their love for food on their placards. - Organisers, can you believe that? During voting proce-dure on the E C O N resolu-t i o n , t h e c o m -m i t t e e tried to encourage the fellow delegates to give them their votes, by posting: “tax cuts for

those who support ECON”, on their placards. There must be some sort of spirit rising from past EYP sessions every time GA is held. There are some phrases that are particularly popular among delegates. Here is the one we appreciate most:

“ G i v e a man

a fish a n d he can f e e d

his fam-ily for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he can feed them a lifetime.”

Go “GAGA” phrases from GABy Marge anD Mrs. sMith

Things we picked up during GA, sitting on the balcony.

Let’s start making future!”“

It’s our duty as citizens of Europe to fight for justice.”“

In China the number 4 means death, and in western socie-ties 13 is said to be unlucky. 10 means perfection. Sikh re-ligion considers the number 5 to be lucky. In many cul-tures and religions, numbers traditionally have a symbolic meaning. “KIS & tell” uncovers the true KIS numerology.

6 is the floor where hectic resolution typing was per-formed by chairs until early hours of Thursday m o r n i n g . C u r i o u s l y enough 666 is also the Devils number…

could there be a connection? 53 is the number of Interna-

tional sessions that have been held. The num-bers 107 and 211 however, means party, party;)

KIS numerologyBy elektra


Everybody had to wake up ridiculously early in the morning, to be exact at 6.45 am. Sleepy, yet excited delegates rushed to the can-teen to get their hands on coffee. After this dramatic beginning, the half-conscious delegates were packed into the buses where they dozed off on the way to the General Assembly Hall in the centre of Kiev.

The General Assembly Hall is a beautiful and majes-tic building which functions as the Club of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. This is where the visits of high of-ficials, meetings and assem-blies of Members of Ukrainian Parliament are held. In these surroundings, delegates have the opportunity to feel like true politicians. They took the task upon themselves with

great vigour and enthusiasm, unlike many politicians. Throughout the de-bate, the beloved partici-pants made an exceptional discussion which contained innovative arguments and high standard of knowledge. Hopefully they will sustain this level of involvement in the discussion in the second day as well.

Dear delegates, you are recognised...By tarzan anD Mrs. sMith

The General Assembly is the real core of EYP. Here the committees witness the actual results of teambuilding and their cooperation troughout the session.

Even on Tuesday, chair Lot (BE) was content with her committee’s progress and was convinced that they would be finished early. Due to this, they were able to take it easy and enjoy many luxu-ries such as playing “Giants, witches and dwarfs” as well as kissing games outside the hotel’s entrance with other committees. Later on when join-

ing them, they were e n g a g i n g in a difficult table-clap-ping game. We learned that Mark (IE) and Al-bert (ES) have the

best concentration by being the last two left in the game. The fol-l ow i n g day, an-o t h e r g a m e w a s

played; a song competition judged by the journo. Olli (FI) was the talented winner who passionately performed his own drinking song. But not everything was fun and games: there was a prominent argument too. Roman Novalek (CZ) and Jonathan Beyls (BE) could not agree on who’s country made the better beer!

Balancing Work and PlayBy Jane of the Jungle

By finishing their resolution on time, INTA kept themselves busy with games.

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Kiev Fashion WeekBy lois lane & roMeo

Check out your fellow EYPers from top to toe!

Klara Sebakova (chair, CZ) looking drop dead gorgeous here in dramatic red. Cleverly combining a flirty summer skirt with a bright winter coat. The shoes are like a cherry on top.

Vera Bachrach (NL) showing off her features in a stunning black and white wrap dress, teach-ing us that matching different styles can result in a positively unique appearance.

Marie-Alix Grisolet (FR) proves once again that the French have fashion sense. Teaming girly pink with this season’s must-have shorts in grey and layered shirts for those touches of classic black and white.

Wojtek Keblowski (chair, PL) shows us that earthy colours look well teamed with grey. The hairstyle is an added bo-nus. This is a great example of expressing

one’s per-s o n a l i t y t h r o u g h the outer a p p e a r -ance.

Some useful fashion aDviCe from them to you:

Vera: “Wear only dresses!” Marie-Alix: “Wear lots of hats.”Wojtek: “Go shopping second-hand.”Klara: “Brush your teeth!”


Willkommen André Schmitz-SchwarzkopfBy superMan

From the support of the Heinz-Schwarzkopf Stiftung (HSS) to the direct running assistance from 2004, the HSS has been a major contributor to EYP for the last ten years, with Herr Schwarzkopf at the helm. German diplomat

André Schmitz-Schwarzkopf will join the proceedings of the 53rd International ses-sion of the EYP here in Kyiv on Saturday October 21st 2006 as president of the HSS. A graduate of law, he cur-rently is effectively the ‘right hand man’ of the Berlin lord

mayor, in addition to being the German State Secretary. He continues to offer his assistance in the form of the HSS, and personal contri-bution to dedication. On be-half of all of us, Herr Schwarz-kopf, thank you.

Picture Gallery:By the Journos

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