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On Tuesday, the biggest opposition faction in the Ukraine started procedures to impeach President Viktor Yushchenko, and also called for the dismissal of Prime Minister Yuliya Timoshenko’s government. “We demand the immediate resignation of the government and the start of procedures to impeach the president”, Viktor Yanukovich, the leader of the Party of Regions, said, addressing an extraordinary session of parliament devoted to the current gas dispute between Russia and the Ukraine. He was supported by the Ukrainian Communist Party. Mr Yushchenko, whose popularity has slumped to 2.4 percent, according to the results of a poll published on Monday, did not attend the Supreme Rada session. Ms Timoshenko was, however, present.On Tuesday, the biggest opposition faction in the Ukraine started procedures to... more
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Political instability has returned to Ukraine. Disagreements over how to respond to the Russian invasion of Georgia have prompted President Viktor Yushchenko to pull his party out of the government, leaving Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko scrambling to form a new coalition.
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The president of Ukraine today declared the government to be in a state of collapse after the prime minister and her party joined forces with opposition groups.
Viktor Yushchenko accused Yulia Tymoshenko and opposition parties of attempting a constitutional coup and threatened to call a snap election unless a new coalition was formed.
"If ... a coalition of factions is not created, I will use my right to dismiss parliament and announce early elections," Yushchenko said in a televised statement.
Tymoshenko, however, said the coalition had been broken up by Yushchenko, adding that her party was not looking at any new grouping.
"The president and his office has used every means to ruin the coalition," she told a cabinet meeting. "It is a pity that the president behaves with no responsibility. The coalition split yesterday, by his own decision."
Yushchenko and Tymoshenko have been at odds on many policy issues, and both are believed to be almost certain to stand in a presidential election next year.
Tymoshenko's party joined the opposition after passing a new law curbing presidential powers and boosting those of the prime minister's office yesterday.
The crisis comes amid concern over Ukraine's security. Following the conflict in Georgia, fears are growing that it could be the next target of a Russian drive to reclaim dominance in former Soviet states. Like Georgia, Ukraine has ambitions to join Nato.
Russia drew stern criticism from the US and Europe last week for recognising two separatist Georgian territories as independent states.
The conflict has plunged relations between Moscow and the west to a post-cold war low, and the EU is considering imposing sanctions against Russia.
Ukrainian leaders fear Moscow also wants to punish Ukraine for allying itself to the west, and Yushchenko said only Nato could guarantee Ukraine's independence.
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Bells tolled, sirens blared and mourners bearing candles commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
The explosion that ripped through Reactor no. 4 two decades ago ripped the roof off the reactor block and a cloud of radiation -- many times that released by the Hiroshima bombing in 1945 -- resulted in 10 days of fallout across 200,000 square kilometers of the Soviet Union and Europe. One worker was killed instantly, his body never found, and at least 29 rescue workers and plant workers died subsequently of radiation poisoning. The exact death toll from the disaster remains a matter of controversy, with the World Health Organization saying the ultimate death toll will be as low as 9,300 while Greenpeace recently claimed that as many as 93,000 lives will be lost as a direct result of the disaster and diseases -- especially thyroid cancer -- caused by radiation.
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Adam Fish, at AFI Fest 2007, giving a heads up to Current and his Kyrgyzstan revolution documentary, in a packed Q&A for the film Orange Revolution (Ukraine revolution). He asks the director Steve York about the role of new media in democratic revolutions in Central Asia.
A great youtube clip from the documentary Orange Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgzGOQ-8xjYAdam Fish, at AFI Fest 2007, giving a heads up to Current and his Kyrgyzstan... more
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