Word: lytvyn
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...Part of that inner-Orange rift could stem from Tymoshenko's previous agreement to cede the Speakership of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's unicameral parliament, to Yushchenko's forces. Now, however, with former Speaker Volodymir Lytvyn's bloc having made it back into parliament, Tymoshenko might co-opt his tiny faction as a makeweight, and give him the speakership as a "balancing" force. However, with their dramatic neck-to-neck racing, Yanukovych still retains a chance to get ahead of Tymoshenko and finish first. In this case, though, "makeweights" of the Lytvyn block and the Communist party who is also...
...selecting a government than Yushchenko. That would likely undermine the President's drive to integrate Ukraine more closely with the West, toward an eventual aim of membership in the European Union. Instead, Ukraine would once more align itself with Moscow. "This is a very special election," says Volodymyr Lytvyn, the Rada speaker and leader of the centrist People's Bloc. "At stake is whether Ukraine has passed the point of no return to its so recent authoritarian past." The orange government came to power promising fundamental change that would make such a return impossible. And to an extent...
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