Why is Yatseniuk Silent?
March 24, 2009 – 6:09 pmThe past few weeks have seen a string of unpleasant comments and actions:
• The head of the Anti-Corruption Fund and editor of the book “Donetsk Mafia,” Borys Penchuk, was sentenced to eight years imprisonment and had his property confiscated.
• A letter addressed to the International Monetary Fund, signed by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and President Victor Yushchenko, promising an end to political conflict lasted less than a day. The removal of the foreign minister (with the help of 49 BYuT deputies) was followed by the arrest of a customs official involved in re-assigning stored gas from RosUkrEnergo to Naftogaz. The icing on the cake was a raid by the State Security Service (SBU) Alpha anti-terrorist unit on Naftogaz. As Ihor Zhdanov, head of the Open Politics think tank, said at a press conference: “Yushchenko has gradually evolved into Kuchma-2, but of a lighter form. I believe that this week he crossed the political rubicon and, at the same time, buried himself as leader of the Orange Revolution.
• Just to add some fire on this oil, Leonid Kuchma suggested he would stand in the upcoming presidential elections and added that he believed that slain journalist Georgiy Gongadze is still alive.
Ukraine certainly needs a new generation of leaders, as does every country. And, two faces have appeared: Anatoliy Grytsenko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Grytsenko, head of parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defense, has commented on and criticized the president and other politicians.
Yatsenyuk, the former speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, is always silent, a silence that shows him to be unwilling to criticize a president who has completely lost the support of Ukrainians. His silence this week on the SBU raid on Naftogaz is immoral, especially as Yushchenko has used the security forces on previous occasions during political conflicts (in 2007 he sent Interior Ministry troops to Kyiv and the presidential guard to the prosecutor’s office).
I would therefore like to ask Yatsenyuk three questions:
1. How do you differ from Yushchenko?
2. What would you do as president that would be different to Yushchenko?
3. Would you have criminally charged the organizers of Gongadze’s murder?
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