Archive for July, 2008
Friday, July 18th, 2008
Political Technologists
It has always been a puzzle for me to understand how one becomes that most important of persons in Ukraine, a political technologist? Seemingly he is invested with magical powers and super human abilities to change fiction and dreams into reality.
I have never quite understood how one becomes such ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
On 7 July the BBC premier news documentary ‘Newsnight’ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/7494585.stm showed a story on the murder of Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko in London http://www.jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2373210
In the same week NUNS deputy Davyd Zhvannia revealed more details about his views that Viktor Yushchenko was not poisoned. The connections between the Yushchenko’s poisoning and ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
The Wall Street Journal on 14 May published further material about Western consultants working for Ukrainian parties. The article was reprinted in the Ukrainian media.
In the article the Daniel J. Edelman legal firm was allegedly paid $35,000 a month to promote the Party of Regions by Davis Manafort International. Manafort, ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
President Yushchenko's attacks on his government when he travels abroad have become routine. Recently these have included attacks on the government in interviews given to Spanish, French, Polish and Canadian newspapers. Such attacks discredit Ukraine's international image and Yushchenko himself.
Heads of state do not attack their governments, even if ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
The popularity of Ukrainian leaders follows a pattern. First, public opinion turns against them inside Ukraine. Second, this is followed by Western governments and international organisations. We can see this tendency in President Yushchenko's domestic and international decline in popularity. It is Tymoshenko's – not Yushchenko's – star that ...
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