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Parliamentary election race officially starts in Ukraine 1st of August 2012. However in some localities elections seem to be done with already. Kharkiv, the second biggest city of Ukraine, had recently demonstrated the excessive use of the so called “administrative resource” (local government influence) in favor of 7 future candidates for parliamentary seats from ruling Party of Regions. The trials of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and members of her government are widely seen as aimed at neutralizing political opponents. Outrage is understandable since such methods have no place in a democracy. Nor, however, do the logic-defying decisions on the creation of single-mandate electoral districts seen in the Central Election Commission’s Resolution No. 82 from 28 April 2012. The conference is an international advocacy forum tasked with assessing Ukraine’s relationship to NATO’s stated goal of strengthened security in the Euro-Atlantic area and a Europe that is whole, free, and at peace. Was this a dry run for the real “state of emergency” which may likely happen after Euro 2102 in August or September as a pretext to cancel the Oct 2102 parliamentary election? TVi reported on Friday that the government is spending massive amounts of money on riot gear for police and the interior ministry in anticipate of pre-election and post election tensions. While a cell phone and internet blackout is justifiable in a terrorist bomb attack, it shows that the regime can isolate a city of 1 million people from the rest of the world in a matter of minutes. 
Canada’s leadership in the international effort to stop the decline of Ukraine’s democracy is crucial. We thank you, Prime Minister, for all you have done and respectfully ask again that Canada continue advancing the cause of democracy in Ukraine by systematically increasing pressure on the Yanukovych government to abide by democratic norms. In the presence of the head of Kachanivska colony, Yulia Tymoshenko gave her consent to the Representative of the Human Rights Commissioner to conduct a visual examination of her bodily injuries. During the visual examination, bruises on forearm, parts of the right elbow joint, as well as a large bruise on the right inguinal part were found. With the most holy of days of the Christian calendar just passed, most lay people will have probably recognized only one thing, that Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, fell one week later for Orthodox Christians than for other Christian denominations this year. However, very few lay people and not that many more Christians know the difference … Ukrainians should forgive Poles not only for “Akciya Visla” but for all the historical inequities. What the Poles do is besides the point. Forgiveness simply is the moral and Christian way. By Bishop Paul Peter Jesep
Ukrainians do not need someone else’s permission to have their own Church. I’ve said it. I’ve written it. And now I’m repeating it for the umpteenth time. Metropolitan Yurij of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Canada is aiding and
abetting the Moscow Patriarchate. His inhospitable attitude toward the visit of Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian … The following article was published nearly 7 years ago when [then] PM Yulia Tymoshenko came under criticism from a right wing US think tank while at the same time Ukraine was under economic pressure from the Kremlin and their rising fuel price demands.. Terry E. Hallman On May 18, a mischievous and disingenuous article critical of … |
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