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foreign notes (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
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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JURIST (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
[JURIST] A Kiev court Saturday blocked a decree by Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko dissolving parliament and directing parliamentary elections in the wake of the collapse of the governing coalition. The Kiev District Court made the ruling against the elections in response to a lawsuit brought by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko against Yushchenko and Ukraine's Central Election Commission (CEC)...
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A Fistful of Euros (Free subscription) | yesterday
The medium-term outlook is sensitive to external developments and policy responses. A benign external environment, featuring even higher steel prices and FDI, could produce growth in excess of 7 percent, but inflation could prove hard to control under a peg. Under an adverse external outlook, by contrast, the peg could lead to external sustainability problems. IMF [...]
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
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) | 10/10/2008
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) | 10/10/2008
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) | 10/10/2008
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) | 10/10/2008
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) | 10/10/2008
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) | 10/10/2008
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) | 10/10/2008
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) | 10/09/2008
Not a bad little video from 'The Guardian' here on reactions to Yushchenko's calling of snap parliamentary elections.
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The 8th Circle (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
[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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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved the Supreme Rada on October 9, after the parliament deputies failed to reach a viable coalition, setting early parliamentary elections for December 7.