Archive for September, 2008
Monday, September 29th, 2008
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) opens its autumn session in Strasbourg today. A motion before PACE calls upon its members to reconsider Russia’s membership because of its violation of the ‘basic principles’ of the Council of Europe. The issue refers to Russia’s invasion of another Council ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Four years of President Viktor Yushchenko's administration have produced constant instability. Lets take a stock of the "score sheet": a popular uprising in the orange revolution, four governments, two (maybe three) elections, one major constitutional change, two political crises and a near violent clash between different law enforcement agencies.
Polls ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Why presidential secretariat head Viktor Baloga and Peoples Union-Our Ukraine leader Vyacheslav Kyrylenko believe they have any right to issue ultimatums is beyond the bounds of logic.
The presidents ratings are a fifth that of Tymoshenko’s, Our Ukraine-Self Defence (NU-NS) have only a sixth of the support of BYuT and NU-NS ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
How Fitting That the Orange Revolution Ends on Gongadze's Anniversary
How fitting that the democratic (that is orange) coalition ceased to exist on 16 September, the annual anniversary of Georgi Gongadze's disappearance eight years ago. Gongadze's beheaded body was found near Kyiv two months after his abduction by policemen and ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
The refusal of the Communist Party (KPU) to support a proposal by Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz to establish a left-electoral bloc is not surprising. Why should the KPU join with other left-wing parties that have little popularity when the KPU can enter parliament independently? The Socialists, Social-Democratic united Party ...
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