Word: rada
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...dioxin poisoning to win the 2004 Orange Revolution in dramatic fashion, but he may now be losing the political war of attrition to hold on to power in Ukraine. On Monday night, Yushchenko, as President of Ukraine, ordered the dissolution of his country's single-chamber parliament, the Rada, to make way for elections in late May. However, the Rada, dominated by his opponents, refused to follow the order and the controversy is now headed for the country's Constitutional Court. In almost theatrical fashion, the man standing to benefit from it all is Yushchenko's nemesis, Victor Yanukovych...
...Kiev has been teeming with mass rallies and counter-rallies for the last three days. In the mirror image of the Fall of 2004, the pro-Yanukovych tent city is rapidly being deployed around the Rada and Cabinet buildings. But instead of orange, the dominant colors are the blue and white of Yanukovych's Party of the Regions. Defenders of the Orange Revolution are being mustered up as well, but under a divided leadership. Russian TV stations are sinisterly prophesying "the coming massive bloodshed in Ukraine." Kremlin leaders have no love for Yushchenko and his erstwhile ally Yuliya Tymoshenko...
...thanks to his own political makeover and the internal squabbles of Yushchenko's once triumphant coalition, Yanukovych came Friday afternoon to the Supreme Rada, Ukraine?s National Legislature, to be confirmed as Ukraine?s new Premier - and, as a result of recent reforms, actually take over many of the Presidential powers of his onetime nemesis, Yushchenko. The flamboyant Yuliya Tymoshenko, Yuschchenko's own onetime revolutionary partner and prime minister and now leader of the parliament's Byut faction, decried ?the sellout of the Orange Revolution" and pledged "stiff opposition? to the hatching coalition government of Yanukovych's PR faction...
...Instead, in a sudden about-face, the Socialists formed a Coalition with the PR and the Communists. That left Yushchenko with the legal option of nominating the Coalition Leader Yanukovych, however distasteful to him, for Premier, or disbanding the Rada, which risked aggravating the nation?s already yawning split. With suspense growing - and with two pre-taped TV addresses to the nation, one proclaiming the Rada disbanded, the other one announcing the ?Two-Viktors-One-Country? conciliatory formula - Yushchenko chose the last-minute compromise...
...unalloyed villain. But parliamentary elections this Sunday, the real reason for the colorful factional displays, are set to prove that there are no heroes in Ukrainian politics - and no irredeemable villains either. Three parties lead a field of 44 competing for the 450 seats in the parliament, the Verkhovna Rada. Yushchenko's liberal-democratic Our Ukraine (ou) faces strong competition from the Bloc of Yuliya Tymoshenko (BYuT), led by Yushchenko's erstwhile ally and now his bitter opponent. And opinion polls suggest that neither party can expect as many votes as the Party of the Regions (pr). Recent polls predict...