A Call to Ukrainians and Supporters of Ukraine to Look at Something New

The Ukrainian community regardless of where it is, is always looking for money to support the countless projects that are underway. This has even become more of a reality in the last year. It is time that the community try to find something new in social media. Just over two weeks ago I wrote a piece about a disruptive social network which would change the way things work in social media in that it would actually feed back to those who made that platform successful! I said that Tsū was disruptive and I think I was right for a whole 100%. It is time for us to look at something new.

In the last month since this new social platform, that pays its members to post, comment and share content, they have beaten any growth records of social media in the past. In fact it is pretty incredible. Within a month they have one MILLION members!



One of the founders Sebastian Sobczak has already released a campaign to support the drilling of a well in Africa for clean drinking water in a particular village. The platform that Mr. Sobczak and his team at Evacuation Complete LLC has developed is not just to make money but to do good. Raise money for its members who can then give to organizations of their choice either through the platform but in the very least make money by creating content, sharing it, liking it and commenting on it and that of other content creators.

The background

In the early stages of my examination of this extremely new platform I thought it was some time of MLM scheme. But in conferring with a number of social media gurus through reading their take on things, and reviewing Google Hangout video recordings, I understood that this was something completely different. It was then that I wrote my first piece on this new disruptive social network, that was for a change letting content creators maintain ownership of their content. This was and is something that other social networks use to drive advertising revenue, and profit from users publication.

The management company of Tsū is called Evacuation Complete LLC, and they have acquired, from my research, 7 million capital to become whatever they want to become based on their platform. If they choose to become another type of PayPal then so be it.

The platform that they are developing can truly empower many people, including the Ukrainian community if it so chooses to take part.

If the Ukrainian community doesn't take part we will be left behind the eight ball. I in less than three weeks have earned one dollar! And this is without a network to support me, it is simply based on sharing of content, my own or of others, up to eight times in a 24 hour period; liking other people's content, and making comments.

I believe that if Ukrainians came together on this platform we would simplify many matters of financing that which we are already crowd sourcing.

The Mechanism

One can only become a member of Tsū by being invited. When you are invited to Tsū , you become a child of the person who invited you. Like in any type of structure of developing relationships, it is expected that you too will invite others to join you in your venture. Unlike, MLM schemes where you have to pay money to do this, your decision to join Tsū costs you nothing but your agreement with the company and some type of positive relationship with the person who invited you into a PARTICIPATIVE EXCHANGE. Yes that is what makes the system work, cooperation and participation of your NETWORK. It works well for everyone involved. And trust me, it is important that you support your friends. We all have done this on Facebook and other social networks, but have we ever been paid to do this? I would like to see our community grow stronger due to this new Social Platform that is fair to its users!Ninety percent of the money it makes from advertisers, sponsors and partners goes back to the companies users/members.

I have invited people and organizations I know that are Pro-Ukrainian, and along the way I have met friends and followers that like what I post and share it. This is how we make money.

I have had some people that are scum of Moscovy make comments on what I was putting forth and and I had no problem turning them off. The thing that drives this social network is quality content. It's a completely new network, something that is disruptive and new, and I believe we as Ukrainians, and supporters of Ukraine should join it en mass.

How To React

Currently I have invited a few people and organizations that I know and who could use some support. While I would like many of you to join me as a child, I do not think this is the best way to support our community. Right now I have three or four different organizations or individuals that need support on what they are up to.

The first is EMPR – EuroMaidanPRmedia – Please join them at https://www.tsu.co/EMPRmedia
The second is an artist and Ukrainian patriot - Serhiy Kolyada - https://www.tsu.co/Kolyada
And third is Tyler Gooden – Film Maker – American supporting Ukrainian values - https://www.tsu.co/Tyler_G

Please do not hesitate to sign up under their positions or mine: http://tsu.co/uamuzik .

I will provide everyone what I know about how things work. The primary matter is providing quality content, this is what drives the system. By the end of the third week of the platform's operation a great deal of spammers and people who look at this as a get-rich-quick scheme have been eliminated.

In working together and supporting one another the Ukrainian community can generate income from a system that is totally disruptive.

Anyone who joins the system I will provide information on how to use this system. Right now there are people who are making money. Our support of one another can help us make money and in turn help us to support the things we would like to support.




Vasyl Pawlowsky Independent Consultant

The commentary of this was first published on the WPawlowsky.com site.

The Battle for a lifetime

There is an Irish saying I want to share with you all that really applies in many different situations.

”There are only two things to worry about, either you are healthy or you are sick. If you are healthy, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you are sick there are only two things to worry about, either you will get well or you will die. If you get well, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you die there are only two things to worry about, either you will go to heaven or to hell. If you go to heaven, then there is nothing to worry about. And if you to go hell, you'll be so darn busy shaking hands with your friends you won't have time to worry!

Why I chose this saying, I'm not too sure, but it deals with two topics that should be extremely important to all of us. Though at this time lets concentrate on getting well, and friends.

A few days back I received a phone call from an old room mate of mine in Kyiv, Ukraine. Yes, I know my location on many social networks indicates that I'm still there, but in all honesty in today's world it really doesn't matter where I am physically located. It was almost your typical phone call, with a few exceptions. First, it isn't regular to receive a phone call from a third of the way around the face of our planet unless it is important! Second, when the conversation starts with, “Hi Vasyl, sorry to be bothering you but I have some bad news!” At that moment everything in your world stops for a moment. My room mate was right she was being the bearer of bad news, but I wasn't necessarily the worse possible news I could have gotten on a Wednesday afternoon.


She continued to inform me that a good friend of mine Ilko Kucheriv has been diagnosed with lung cancer. Well, “shit” I thought to myself, and then she said that he has a very positive outlook and attitude. Well there is at least a part that is positive about this bad news, Ilko's attitude. While my room mate couldn't tell me much she told me who she had heard from. I'm glad she called to tell me and I hope that my contribution over the next little while will help my friend in the battle for his life.


Ilko has been an activist in Ukraine since the days before Ukraine's independence and is Director of the Democratic Initiatives Foundation. As long as I have known him he has always tried to be a little more progressive than other leaders in his community, and always tackles projects which are important in the further development of his country. Ilko and I go back quite a few years, about twelve, but working the way we did together it often seems that it was a lot longer than those twelve years. The events in Ukraine that I experienced visiting through the 1990s and then being on ground from the spring of 1999 until the autumn of last year was really the equivalent to a life time for many, and many of those experiences I lived through with Ilko. Damn, he and I even stated that the elections in Mukachevo in April of 2004 were the litmus test for democracy in Ukraine, and this was while we were at a conference in Bratislava in March of that year..


I a was a consultant for his organization for nearly that entire time I was in Ukraine. He and I traveled both inside and outside of Ukraine together and often we had working weekends at it his cottage and I got to know his family. So there is good reason I want to help him in any way I can.

While from one aspect this entry is a lot off topic for my blog, but on the other hand it's not. Such struggles also make up the notes on the page of each of our lives... So by that token the entry is bang on. But first let me explain why I am writing this in my blog and why I feel that I have to do my part in letting all of Ilko's friend's know about, as he put it to me in an e-mail he dictated to his wife for me, “a change in my life's priorities for the time being.” And I am now sharing with you all what I shared with Ilko and his wife because maybe then some of you who read this will better understand what is going on, and why I am dealing with this issue in my life, the potential terminal illness of a good friend, the way I am.

Back in 1990, when Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union, I visited Ukraine on invitation of the Student Brotherhood organization of the the city of L'viv. A year earlier I had met Andriy Vynnychuk from that organization on his first visit to Canada. In short Andriy Vynnychuk and I became good friends, and after my visit to Ukraine, Andriy once again visited Canada with another great friend Orest Vasyltsiv. During their visit we met with many University Student Unions in Canada, after attending the SUSK Congress in Saskatoon in 2001.

When Ukraine became independent, Vyacheslav Bryukhovetskiy's dream of re-opening the Kyiv Mohyla Academy became a reality, Andriy enrolled there instead of continuing in physics, which he had graduated from at the Ivan Franko Universty in L'viv. I can recall very well about when I heard about that decision of Andriy's. This was from another good friend who was on a stop over on his way to Edmonton for his Masters, told me how Andriy had gotten into a Masters program in physics, but he had also been accepted into Mohyla. That friend is now Ukraine's Ambassador to Finland. Andriy went on to enrol in the re-established educational institution with a rich history. There he met his wife, they were married and then when he was studying Prague illness struck. Sometime during Andriy's last semester in Prague, Vyacheslav Bryukhovetsky was in Montreal and he told me that Andriy was extremely sick. A few months passed and a friend of mine from Montreal said they saw Andriy in L'viv when he was there and didn't recognize him, in mid July when I arrived in Kyiv friends said to me, “Vasyliu, sit down. I was at Andriy's funeral last week!” During that whole period when he was sick, friends he had around the world felt helpless, I was one of them and my appeal through different forums and listservs was one of anguish that we could do nothing to help him, the diagnosis came extremely late in the progress of his illness. Though Andriy is not forgotten my the school he so dearly wanted to graduate from, and now there is a grant for students in Andriy's memory “for the activity in the organization of student self government”. That was 1996, Ukraine and the world is wired extremely differently now.


So having had this experience this, I could not at all just sit around and do nothing, and I am glad to see that there are other friends of his who are doing their part. When I awoke on Thursday morning I had an invitation to join the HELP ILKO page on Facebook, with an short while later I was notified that help_ilko was following me on Twitter. So social networking being what it is, I invited all my friends to that group, well at least all my friends who could read the Ukrainian. And then the letter writing campaign started, on Friday. So far the response has been good, but this is going to be a long and expensive battle, and I am going to help out as much as I can.


The meds doctors are using on my friend are traditional chemo:

• Gemzar
• Cispalatin
•  Bondronat

Even though you may read elsewhere that such a product should not be prescribed to men, from what I can understand the last of these products is being used to deal with the metastasis of the bone of his spine. But hey I'm no doctor... but just using a little logic.


None of these meds are cheap by any standards, and probably more expensive in Ukraine than elsewhere, because everyone from the Minister of Health to the doctors who have prescribed the meds want their cut.

I the days that follow I will probably be blogging here about the change in priorities in the life of a good friend. I hope that anyone who reads this can help out as much as their finances allow.

I on the other hand... will be doing my part in many different ways. I am sure some of you who read this will hear from me soon.