Archive for July, 2008

Remove Ivan Pliushch’s Parliamentary Mandate!

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Our Ukraine-Peoples Self Defence (NU-NS) is deciding whether to follow BYuT in also expelling its defector (Viktor Byt). But, Our Ukraine deputy Stretovych did not believe that NU-NS would also expel its first defector Ivan Pliushch. The question is why? Pliushch was secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NRBO) ...

Ten Questions to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Some commentators on Ukrayinska Pravda, other Ukrainian sites and my blog have ignored my ten questions to Yushchenko and asked instead 'Where are the 10 questions to Tymoshenko?' This is a wrong question for the simple reason is that the President is in his fourth year in power while Tymoshenko ...

Yushchenko (Baloga) and Kuzio

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

I never expected the ten questions I wrote on the eve of President Yushchenko’s state visit to Canada to have such an influence on the presidential secretariat. My Kyiv sources advise me that the presidential secretariat believed that they were written as part of a Tymoshenko bloc conspiracy against President ...

Us and Them

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Business Ukraine, 2 June 2008 I asked very pertinent ten questions to President Viktor Yushchenko as he flew into Canada for two reasons. Firstly, to stimulate, as it did, a vigorous debate. Secondly, to ensure that Yushchenko did not receive typically unadulterated praise from the Ukrainian diaspora who would be ...

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