Archive for June, 2009
Friday, June 12th, 2009
When we talk about empire and path dependency we need to take into account the central issue that even moderate Ukrainians believe: Russia refuses, cannot and will not come to terms with Ukrainians as a separate people or Ukraine as an independent nation.
Imperialism, chauvinism, racism? Probably all. And, do not ...
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Both Yushchenko and Yanukovych want to change the constitution prior to the elections:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/6/9/96219.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/6/9/96207.htm
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/6/9/96178.htm
Andreas Umland's support for parliamentarism is backed by the majority of Western political scientists.
This is what Andreas wrote to me last week:
Professor Robert Elgie and political researcher Sophia Moestrup edited the collected volume Semi-Presidentialism in Central and Eastern Europe
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008) containing research papers by specialists ...
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
http://5.ua/newsline/179/0/60014/
Tymoshenko
http://5.ua/newsline/179/0/60008/
Yanukovych
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
Ok, we have discussed the coalition and its plans and although there are disagreements all of us are quite close. Not a single person defended the proposed constitutional changes.
Its time to look at Yushchenko's options as only he can halt it (as he "guaranteed" to do). I am not so ...
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