Son_Of_Suvorov
01-12-2006, 01:16 AM
Not four months after Yulia Timoshenko and her cabinet were sacked on charges of corruption, just yesterday the Ukranian Supreme Rada voted to fire PM Yuri Yekhanurov and his cabinet. Just as I predicted, all manner of politicians jumped on the gas bandwagon to toot their own horn:
Statements of the members of parliament were rather rigid and most of them were connected with the recently signed contract over the flow of natural gas from Russia, which they call a fettering agreement. "The signed agreement is the worst decision that could have been taken in the circumstances concerned", Vladimir Litvin said. Viktor Yanukovich, Yulia Timoshenko and communists in their turn were unanimously talking about betrayal of national interests. Besides, the members of parliament formed a special committee for investigation of the Neftegaz Ukrainy activity and also demanded the dismissal o the company's head Aleksey Ivchenko.
The situation is even more confusing taking into account that starting from the 1 January 2006 a new political reform came into force, according to which the Supreme Rada has a right to appoint and dismiss the cabinet. However, the parliament will be able to do so only after the elections on 26 March, so the PM's candidate will be presented by Viktor Yushchenko. The president, by the way, was on his visit to Kazakhstan at the moment and it is hard to understand who was ruling the country.
According to the head of the Centre of economic and political research and development, Vladimir Razuvaev, the government should have been dismissed earlier. "The cabinet should have been dismissed on 1 January. It is not only about the conditions of the gas agreement. Everything turned out not so bad for Ukraine, although the gas problem accelerated all the events, of course. Yekhanurov is a quite good bureaucrat, but he is not so good as a public politician, which became apparent during the discussion of the gas problem. The PM failed at managing the crisis. Besides, among the reasons for the cabinet"s dismissal I would like to mention the Ukrainian habit of turning all the disagreements and failures into political issue", Razuvaev said.
http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/92/370/16725_Ukraine.html
Of course Yuschenko says it's all a big plot against Ukraine (him):
http://www.interfax.kiev.ua/eng/go.cgi?31,20060111001
Of course the hot babe ex-PM Timoshenko sees things a little differently.Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!
http://en.for-ua.com/news/2006/01/11/112234.html
This is almost as good as an episode of Jerry Springer. I am just waiting for fistfights to start breaking out on the Parliament floor!
Statements of the members of parliament were rather rigid and most of them were connected with the recently signed contract over the flow of natural gas from Russia, which they call a fettering agreement. "The signed agreement is the worst decision that could have been taken in the circumstances concerned", Vladimir Litvin said. Viktor Yanukovich, Yulia Timoshenko and communists in their turn were unanimously talking about betrayal of national interests. Besides, the members of parliament formed a special committee for investigation of the Neftegaz Ukrainy activity and also demanded the dismissal o the company's head Aleksey Ivchenko.
The situation is even more confusing taking into account that starting from the 1 January 2006 a new political reform came into force, according to which the Supreme Rada has a right to appoint and dismiss the cabinet. However, the parliament will be able to do so only after the elections on 26 March, so the PM's candidate will be presented by Viktor Yushchenko. The president, by the way, was on his visit to Kazakhstan at the moment and it is hard to understand who was ruling the country.
According to the head of the Centre of economic and political research and development, Vladimir Razuvaev, the government should have been dismissed earlier. "The cabinet should have been dismissed on 1 January. It is not only about the conditions of the gas agreement. Everything turned out not so bad for Ukraine, although the gas problem accelerated all the events, of course. Yekhanurov is a quite good bureaucrat, but he is not so good as a public politician, which became apparent during the discussion of the gas problem. The PM failed at managing the crisis. Besides, among the reasons for the cabinet"s dismissal I would like to mention the Ukrainian habit of turning all the disagreements and failures into political issue", Razuvaev said.
http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/92/370/16725_Ukraine.html
Of course Yuschenko says it's all a big plot against Ukraine (him):
http://www.interfax.kiev.ua/eng/go.cgi?31,20060111001
Of course the hot babe ex-PM Timoshenko sees things a little differently.Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!
http://en.for-ua.com/news/2006/01/11/112234.html
This is almost as good as an episode of Jerry Springer. I am just waiting for fistfights to start breaking out on the Parliament floor!