Word: rada
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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...
...early presidential election. But now the specter of such an election arises instead from an unexpected corner: that of the ever-ambitious Tymoshenko feeling that she would surely carry it in the runoff. Fighting for the presidency - and restoring the functions it was forced to cede to the Rada in 2005 - might prove more alluring to her than holding a premiership stripped of control over key positions and issues...
Ukraine's 2004 presidential election captured the world's attention with its dramatic contest between a Moscow ally and opposition forces that eventually took to the streets in the peaceful "Orange Revolution" to claim the victory their candidate won at the polls. By contrast, this Sunday's Verkhovna Rada legislative election seems like an endless soap opera with the same tired cast of characters struggling to keep the audience awake...
...politics. Last month the U.S. Senate approved a bill providing support and funding for Ukraine's candidacy to join nato. Moscow bitterly opposes this and has long been more friendly to the anti-nato Yanukovych. "Yushchenko sees us as a huge log that blocks his path to nato," a Rada deputy of Yanukovych's faction told Time. "He also knows that this log is stuffed with cash," he added, suggesting that money enticed many of the politicians who have changed allegiance...
...Yanukovych's coalition grows to 300, it will have the power to change the constitution and abolish the presidency, a prospect that encouraged Yushchenko to strike first and dissolve the Rada. Tensions are growing. In a mirror image of the orange fall of 2004, a tent city has rapidly formed around Kiev's Rada and Cabinet buildings, though this time in pro-Yanukovych blue and white. These colors mix with the red banners of his communist and socialist coalition allies in Independence Square, while orange loyalists have set a defensive tent ring around the President's office. The Crimean autonomous...