Yushchenko seeking to destabilise elections in order to cling on to power

Ukraine’s second most popular presidential candidate, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, suspects that President Viktor Yushchenko -who is running for a second term- of conspiring to disrupt the presidential election scheduled for January 17, 2010. Yushchenko, to whom opinion polls give no more than 2-4 percent of popular support, has appealed to the constitutional court against several provisions in a new election law.

Yushchenko’s proposed Constitutional reform: Ukraine’s Greatest Threat to Democracy

Whilst Yushchenko spouses the words of democracy his actions and policies are far from being democratic or constitutional.

In a desperate attempt to regain relevance Yushchenko wants his version of the constitution to be put to referendum at the next Presidential election in which he hopes to control the agenda.

KYIV: Yanukovych: Ukrainian parliament negotiating possible govt reconfiguration

Political groups in the Ukrainian parliament are negotiating not only a candidate for speaker but also a possible reconfiguration of the government, Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych told the media in Moscow on Thursday

Ukraine’s political crisis goes into extra time

Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko has given party leaders more time to find a way out of the ongoing political crisis. The country has been caught up in political deadlock since the ruling coalition between Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko’s bloc and the pro-presidential party collapsed last month.

Ukraine’s governing coalition pronounced dead

The ruling coalition which wrested power from pro-Russian Victor Yanukovich in the 2004 Orange Revolution has been dissolved by the Ukrainian parliement. On Saturday a ten-day deadline to restore the coalition between former close allies Yulia Tymoshenko and Viktor Yushchenko…