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...election since the Orange Revolution approaching, Ukraine seems to be in danger of losing the tenuous progress it has made since it broke off from the Soviet Union 18 years ago. The country’s economy was devastated by the recession and the partnership between Yushchenko and Yulia Timoshenko, his prime minister, is now riven by feuding and electoral politics. Especially in light of recent Russian attempts to influence Ukrainian politics, the international community needs to make an effort to show support for maintaining democratic government in Ukraine and to demonstrate its commitment to protect Ukraine from foreign intervention...
...prime minister and former partner, Yulia Tymoshenko, and Viktor Yanukovych, Yushchenko’s rival in the last election, along with 15 others. The lack of clarity on how much power the president can actually exercise has been cited as a major factor in the split between Yuschenko and Timoshenko. Whether Ukraine elects a leader who will try to move in a more authoritarian direction or one who is more willing to work with the prime minister and parliament will undoubtedly be a major factor in the direction Ukrainian democracy will move...
...addition to the gas price hike, in late December Russia introduced a new export duty on its supplies of crude to Belarus. Belneftekhim, Belarus' state-run oil and chemical concern, immediately suspended all oil contracts with Russian companies. "We'll survive, but we're hard put now," Alexander Timoshenko, Belarus' government spokesman, told Time...
...have been replaced by large, army-issue tents, and Independence Square even has its own daily newspaper, the Revolution, a leaflet of resistance news. Yanukovych, the beneficiary of the vote-rigging, broke with his patron Kuchma and denounced the reform package; even some Yushchenko allies were against it. Yulia Timoshenko, a radical opposition leader, refused to vote on it. "This reform strips the President of powers he needs to deliver on his promises to the people," she fumed. But Mikhailo Svistovich, an activist with the opposition group Pora, has a more positive view. The electoral reforms are incorporated into...
Died. Marshal Semyon K. Timoshenko, 75, one of the architects of the German defeat on the Eastern front in World War II; of cancer; in Moscow. The son of a landless peasant Timoshenko deserted the Czarist Army 1917 to join the Bolshevik Revolution and became one of Soviet Communism's staunchest soldiers. A favorite of Stalin, he rose to the rank of Marshal at the age of 45, won a reputation for tenacity and rigorous discipline if not for tactical brilliance He was called in to bolster the sagging Russian invasion of Finland in 1939 and led five armies...