Word: rada
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Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko may have overcome Russian political interference and dioxin poisoning to triumph during the 2004 orange revolution, but he's now at risk of losing his hold on power. On April 2, Yushchenko ordered the dissolution of Ukraine's single-chamber parliament, the Rada, to make way for early elections in late May. In response, the Rada, which is dominated by his opponents, declared the order unconstitutional, blocked funding for the new election, voted to replace the current election commission with the one that was fired for rigging the 2004 election, and referred the crisis...
...metal, coal and chemical magnate hired Paul Manafort, a veteran Washington political consultant who has advised numerous prominent U.S. Republicans, to help shape his image. Yanukovych has emphasized orange revolution failings like administration infighting, sporadic food and fuel shortages, and soaring inflation. The strategy worked: in the 2006 Rada elections, Yanukovych's Party of the Regions came in first, carrying 32% of the vote...
...election coincided with a political reform that transferred considerable powers from the office of the President to the Rada and made the Prime Minister a Rada-nominated position. After controversial parliamentary maneuvering, Yanukovych became Prime Minister and immediately began to dismantle the President's already diminishing powers by, for example, purging Yushchenko's Ministers from his Cabinet. Led by his well-funded and organized party, Yanukovych's coalition, now boasting 262 Rada votes, has been steadily stealing support from orange factions, which now control just 198 votes...
...election coincided with political reform, which transferred considerable powers from the office of the President to the Rada and the Rada-nominated Prime Minister. After controversial parliamentary maneuvers and alliance building, Yanukovych became Prime Minister and immediately set out to encroach on the President's diminishing powers. Yanukovych has purged Yushchenko's nominees from his own cabinet. The Rada and the Cabinet now oppose the President's policies, aimed at joining the European Union and NATO, playing on fears of joining the Western alliance fanned by Russian propaganda. The ever looser Orange alliance of Tymoshenko and Yushchenko was being abandoned...
...prospect of that led to Yushchenko's decision to dissolve the Rada. Tymoshenko offered to patch up relations in the face of a common and rising enemy. But it may be too late. Even a Constitutional Court ruling may not be enough to heal the rift between two democratically elected but violently opposed branches of Ukraine?s government...