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foreign notes (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
As Mustafa Nayem and Serhiy Leshchenko point out in an article in U.P. any Yushchenko-led party standing for election in the proposed December 7th elections will be in an untenable position. The president in his address to the nation on Wednesday explained that the reason for calling early elections was BYuT's 'betrayal' of its partner NUNS in the democratic coalition. On returning from the summer...
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The 8th Circle (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
[UPDATE]: For Ukrainian bloggers’ reaction see here; for voter reaction on the streets of Kyiv, see the Guardian’s video report (h/t foreign notes). Yushchenko’s full speech announcing the dissolution of the Ukrainian parliament is posted below. It ran as part of the latest edition in The Ukraine List or UKL #430 (PDF), which also includes [...]
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
KIEV, Ukraine, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Political tensions in Ukraine heightened Saturday as a court suspended the president's plan to dissolve Parliament and hold early elections, officials said. The Kiev District Court said it was suspending President Viktor Yushchenko's election decree while it considered an appeal from Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's political bloc, RIA Novosti reported. Yushchenko...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Ukraine's prime minister said Friday there will be no early parliamentary elections, defying a presidential decree and raising the stakes in her fierce political battle with the president.
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
(trims, adds paras 3, 4) KIEV, October 11 (RIA Novosti) - The Kiev District Court on Saturday suspended the Ukrainian president's decree to dissolve parliament and call snap parliamentary polls, the U...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
A string of countries face the risk of "going bust" as financial panic sweeps Asia Eastern Europe and Latin America raising the spectre of a strategic crisis in some of the world's most dangerous spots.
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
appeared to set Ukraine on a pro-western, democratic path , its leaders have taken it into another cul-de-sac. The blame game over the last month has seen Yushchenko's office
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A Fistful of Euros (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has officially dissolved the parliament, and new elections are set for December 7. He made no secret of why he thought the coalition broke up: The democratic coalition - I am convinced, deeply convinced - was destroyed with only one thing – personal ambition. The personal ambition of one individual which [...]
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The First Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the Panorama Museum in Sevastopol last week I gazed at one of the world's most incredible paintings, The Defence of Sevastopol by Franz Roubaud. The 360-degree,…
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France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
In this edition: Ukrainian parliament is dissolved amid leadership issue between Tymoshenko and Yushchenko; Hindus persecute Christians in India; US election continues on the web; Google is looking for ways to save the world.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Five state police officers were killed in the western Mexican state of Jalisco by grenade-lobbing gunmen who fired more than 800 bullets...
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Oct. 8, president Victor Yushchenko announced the dissolution of the Ukrainian parliament. The snap election - the third parliamentary vote in Ukraine since the 2004 Orange Revolution - has been scheduled for Dec. 7. Here is what some Ukrainian bloggers think of the political situation in their country.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday dissolved parliament and called an early election amid mounting political chaos at home and threat from the spreading international financial crisis. "In accordance with the Constitution I announce the dissolution of the sixth parliament and call an early vote," he said in a televised address to the nation after lawmakers missed a deadline to form...
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foreign notes (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Not a bad little video from 'The Guardian' here on reactions to Yushchenko's calling of snap parliamentary elections.
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mexture | 06/10/2008
The Ukrainian president went to power thanks to the orange revolution in Ukraine, since then the Ukrainian government is experiencing a period of instability. Viktor Yushchenko has supplied the Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili with tanks and army artillery that have been used to invade South Ossetia on the 08 August 2008, also there are voices that Georgian tanks pilots have been trained in Kiev