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(09.02.11)
Ruslan Starovoytenko, Analyst, Open Society Foundation
No high-profile decision can pass the Verkhovna Rada without a scandal. This time, everybody’s attention was on the voting for the Constitutional Amendments using duplicate cards. MP Volodymyr Aryev, who was on a business trip to the USA at that moment, showed his own voting card that he had with him and denied he had asked somebody else to vote on his behalf. However, this fact didn’t seem to shock either Ukrainian politicians, or society. Moreover, it has been said that the Party of the Regions is currently working on amendments to the Verkhovna Rada’s Rules of Procedure which would legalize the procedure of voting on behalf of the MPs absent from the session hall.
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(02.02.11)
Ruslan Starovoytenko, analyst, Open Society Foundation
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine will be convened for another session from February to July 2011. Members of Parliament plan to discuss and pass decision on 243 Bills submitted for consideration. The Verkhovna Rada committees are going to work on 620 Bills, which makes the total of 863 Bills. Another part of work is current issues which are going to arise during the session. But it’s not that hard to predict that even having reached the ‘lightning speed’ decision making rate, not hampered by such ‘unnecessary diversions’ as procedural rules, which was an ‘innovation’ of the last session, the parliament is not likely to fulfill the entire plan.
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(28.01.11)
Dmytro Vygovsky, Candidate of Political Sciences
Ukraine is a relatively new state which has been on to road to its independence for as long as 20 years. This way is far from easy and full of obstacles, which are in particular dangerous when the state has no established democracy and effective institutions of civil society. Mistakes can be made and disputable decisions might be taken in the process. The only way to prevent such problems is to ensure strict adherence to laws and regulations.
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(26.04.10)
Stas Sokolov, expert, Open Society Foundation
From the very first moment Viktor Yanukovych was declared a new President of Ukraine, it was perfectly clear he should not fear any serious opposition, not at the beginning of his term at the helm of the state anyway. The forces that had always considered themselves as pro-presidential or at least tolerated the “orange” president, after the total “repainting” of the authorities into pleasing white and blue shades so dear for the new president’s heart found themselves disorganized and confused – they did not know whether they should start fighting the new regime or take some time, stay away from barricades for a while and try to save themselves a separate comfortable niche under the new government. Ukrainian political system, spoilt by the liberal Viktor Yushchenko and virtually never ending election campaigns, has lost its opposition, once consolidated by the Kuchma regime. With the presently available oppositional forces, the Party of the Regions will not have to worry about its position for years to come.
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(22.03.10)
Stas Sokolov, Expert, Open Society Foundation
In the current game of Ukrainian political football, the ball of a “golden share” has been passed to the Our Ukraine bloc. But the player seems to be frozen right in the middle of the field, unable to choose which team to support. Instead of the long-awaited political panacea which could have healed this party, it became a poison which might ruin this stronghold of all things “orange”. National romanticism has failed the test of power, time and peaceful co-existence. The party which strived to become a leading provider of democracy and European orientation in Ukraine has been smashed between two millstones of Ukrainian politics, two former allies, and bitter rivals, the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc and the Party of the Regions. Will Our Ukraine keep on playing this game? Who will become a new coach and a captain of this political team?
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