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.

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

Nihilism on high

When leaders don’t even obey the law, what hope is there for the rule of law?

It seems like everyone has stepped over laws and the Constitution lately – the president, the prime minister, judges and parliament deputies. They employed tactics that makes one wonder whether these politicians have any understanding of their role in society: to protect the Constitution, to pass laws, to referee disputes.