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(05.07.10)
Roman Kuybida, Deputy Chair of the Center for Political and Legal Reforms Board
On May 31, 2010, Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych submitted a Bill on the Judicial System and Status of judges (Bill 6450) to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Ukrainian Parliament). The new bill resembles numerous bills on the judicial system and status of judges, introduced by ex-President Viktor Yushchenko. Specifically, it requires specialized training for a person to be appointed a judge; competition for a position of a judge held by the permanent Supreme Qualification Commission of Judges (SQCJ); clear grounds to institute disciplinary provisions against a judge; declaration of incomes and expenses of a judge and their family members; a specified salary of a judge; ensuring independence of courts of appeals and dissolving courts martial etc. The new bill however threatens to undermine judges’ independence since it creates possibilities for protecting some of them, while persecuting others.
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(25.11.09)
Quite predictably, the start of the presidential election campaign of 2010 was accompanied by nomination of a string of new presidential candidates. Most of the new candidates are supposed to play a ‘technical’ role, stealing votes from the campaign leaders (top five candidates according to the national opinion polls). The goal of some of them is even simpler – campaigning against one specific presidential candidate. They are going to try to win a part of the electoral field of their ‘target leader’ (for instance, Oleksandr Moroz (Socialist party of Ukraine) and Petro Symonenko (Communist party of Ukraine) share the electorate).
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(11.11.09)
The official start of the presidential election campaign on October 19 and political forces beginning to nominate presidential candidates started the countdown to a new point of no return in Ukrainian domestic policy – January 17, 2010 (the first round of the presidential election) and February 7, 2010 (the second round). It is going to be a true point of no return since after the election day, not only personal representation of Ukrainian politics, but also political party segmentation of both the electoral field and the parliament will change dramatically.
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(01.09.2009)
“The time when we neither want nor try to fulfill our pledges” –that would be a perfect line for a self-made poster for the session hall of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada (which has recently been crammed with all kinds of posters). It would be an accurate rendition of the performance of Members of Ukrainian Parliament in 2009, from post-festive January to the last summer month, August.
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(21-06-09)
Andriy Kachor
One of the most interesting sides of the contemporary Ukrainian politics is the fact that the more paradoxical and unlikely the predictions on some political events are, the more likely they are to come actually true. The more unnatural the possibilities of coalitions of some political forces seem, the more probable their union is. The more fervently party leaders deny any talks on uniting or splitting, the more plausible such talks are. Following this principle, the fact the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc and the Party of the Regions have failed to form a parliamentary coalition seems more surprising than the possibility of these forces actually joining forces, no pun intended.
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Expert Opinion |
Yanukovych as self-fulfilling prophecy
This June, only the laziest of political experts or journalists did not cover the first 100 days of President Viktor Yanukovych in office. Traditionally, two parallel trends were formed with some materials presenting the positive side of the President’s achievements, putting emphasis on the pragmatic and rational approach of the new authorities, characterizing Yanukovych and his team as effective managers, while others tried to compare the situation to a virtually apocalyptic scenario of total corruption with strict censorship introduced and a new authoritarian regime established in the country. |
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Roundtable Efficiency of the Ukrainian parliament, Sumy
The Open Society Foundation (OSF) and the Center for Regional Politics held the roundtable ‘Efficiency of the Ukrainian parliament’ on December 25, 2009, in the city of Sumy (VTB bank business center, 13-a, Voskresenska Str., Sumy). ...
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Roundtable ‘Efficiency of the Ukrainian parliament’, Chernihiv
The Open Society Foundation (OSF) and Chernihiv-based expert club “Fair Politics” held the roundtable ‘Efficiency of the Ukrainian parliament’ on December 9, 2009, in the city of Chernihiv (6A, Hetman Polubotko Str., Chernihiv). ...
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‘On the Way to the European Union: Polands’ Experience’ Roundtable
The Open Society Foundation and Ukraine-based Polish Institute held a roundtable ‘On the Way to the European Union: Poland’s Experience’ on September 26 in Simferopol. ...
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