Ukraine's government falls apart

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

Ukraine's ruling pro-Western coalition has officially collapsed, the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament says.

President Viktor Yushchenko has been involved in a long-running dispute with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

The president's Our Ukraine bloc left the coalition earlier this month. Parliament now has 30 days to try to form a new ruling coalition.

If those efforts fail, Mr Yushchenko can dissolve parliament and call a snap election.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7618147.stm

[Demeter]

1. Nice Job, Dick!

The VP should be in solitary.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Typhoid Cheney,

Spreading democracy with a jackboot.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Follow-up: Ukraine's Ruling Coalition Collapses, Elections Loom (Update2)

Ukraine's Ruling Coalition Collapses, Elections Loom (Update2)

By Daryna Krasnolutska

Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Ukraine's governing coalition collapsed because the parties of President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko failed to resolve their differences, pushing the country toward early elections.

Yushchenko's party, which wants to forge closer ties with the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, quit the coalition on Sept. 3, after Timoshenko's bloc teamed up with the pro-Russian opposition to strip the president of some powers. The parties had 10 days to re-unite.

Yushchenko and Timoshenko teamed up four years ago to win the 2004 elections in the bloodless Orange Revolution. After a split in 2005, the two parties reformed an alliance before last year's elections. This time they clashed over policies such as ways of damping Europe's fastest inflation and the sale of state assets.

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Timoshenko now has one month to form a new coalition, most likely with the pro-Russia party of Viktor Yanukovych. The communist party and an anti-NATO group may also be included. Yushchenko has twice threatened to dissolve parliament, should the premier fail to win enough support.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=al1RXTPf0K6Y&refer=europe



Alexander and Yulia Timoshenko










On edit: For your listening pleasure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FidREmqM0I
Russian disco, Shura II:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VKEUFuDS3Q&feature=related

[dipsydoodle]

4. Thanks for that

and the pics. :hi:

[Judi Lynn]

5. Thanks for being the one to post the news! Hadn't heard a peep before seeing your article.

:hi:

This is certainly interesting by now!

On edit, sorry to have to add the links. Seeing the photo of _Bush walking with Yuschenko reminded me immediately of the You Tube I saw of the first link and I was unable to avoid posting that link. Threw in the 2nd one simply because it was regionally related to Ukraine. :eyes:

[Mudoria]

6. Been long past time for President Yushchenko

to call for new elections. Should lessen the pro-Russian minority in the government even more than it is now.

[happyslug]

9. If that was the case, the President would call an election, instead he is negotiating.

Especially given the Winter heating season is coming up. What the President of the Ukraine does NOT want is an election when the issue of natural gas for heating is a big issue. The Ukraine, like most of Europe is dependent on Russian Natural Gas. The last thing the President wants is an electorate, who seeing the upcoming winter, votes for heat (i.e. vote for the pro-Russian party). The President will prefer next Spring, when do to some greedy action by the part of the Russian Gas Monopoly (Which everyone fully expects) the voters will be upset about have froze the previous winter and vote for Anti-Russian Candidates.. Thus the effort to negotiate rather then hold elections at the present time.

[hogwyld]

11. Or the Ukrainians could vote

to go back to being a part of Russia. They've had a taste of capitalism, and it's given them a bad case of indigestion. Better to go back to the socialist model.

[WriteDown]

14. Russia wasn't socialist....

it was communist. Big difference.

[AlphaCentauri]

8. Yulia is gorgeous, beautiful

BTW the lady in the video need a dancing partner :rofl:

[Uncle Joe]

13. I with them the best and hope this all works out well.

They seem like good people and they sported Tennessee Vol Orange, all they needed was to break out singing Rocky Top to make it complete.:)

[bemildred]

7. Gosh, who could have predicted this?

Maybe we can even have a civil war or something.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Ukraine's Orange movement sours as coalition splits

Ukraine's Orange movement sours as coalition splits
Anya Tsukanova, Kiev
September 17, 2008

UKRAINE'S governing coalition collapsed yesterday, raising the prospect of the country being knocked off its pro-Western course and left leaning more towards Moscow.

"I officially announce the collapse of the coalition of democratic forces," the parliament's speaker, Arseny Yatsenyuk, announced dramatically.

Less than four years after President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko united in the "Orange Revolution", their political marriage lies in tatters.

Ms Tymoshenko was expected to resign after the announcement and start trying to build a new coalition. She should continue functioning as Prime Minister until the formation of a new cabinet, which must happen within 30 days, or Mr Yushchenko can call new elections.

More:
http://www.theage.com.au/world/ukraines-orange-movement-sours-as-coalition-splits-20080916-4hwl.html

[JVS]

12. YANUKOVICH!!!!

[4_TN_TITANS]

15. If ever there was a time for strong world leadership...

<sigh> What could Joe do for you?