The Oligarchs are cracking themselves up these days. Examples:
1. In a major turn of events, hatchetman Presidential Head of Administration Medvedchuk has resigned. This is not a random event. The co-head of the Kiev clan/ media magnate/ one of the biggest oligarchs in Ukraine has left his very public position at Kuchma's side, though Kuchma hasn't yet signed the resignation. Medvedchuk seems to be siding with Yanukovych in the intra-faction split. Interestingly, Yuri Lyakh, one of Medvedchuk's inner circle and the head of the Ukrainian Credit Bank, was found in his office this month with his throat cut.
2. Another Yanukovych-aligned party is imploding. A National-Democratic Party leader, Evgeniy Kushnarev has left the NDP to form a new party. Several other members are now supporting Yushchenko.
3. The Trudovaya Ukraina Party, which supports Yanukovych, has lost 18 members since December 3rd. Many have joined Yushchenko's Nasha Ukraina bloc. As of today, Trudovaya has only twelve MPs left, and fourteen are needed to preserve one's status as an official fraktsiya in the Parliament. The rump party may have to fold into another, larger party.
4. Yanukovych has declared himself "very disappointed" with Kuchma, and called him a coward. He's ticked that Kuchma sold him out during the Orange Revolution by agreeing to new elections.
Posted by Discoshaman at décembre 15, 2004 03:21 AM | TrackBack
Quixotic Yanukovych - is still a criminal
The frauduent efforts of the last election will be zealously repeated this time - just using different methods... and dozens of Mayors, Prosecutors and Police officials have signed up to help. Is anyone surprised?
Maidan exposes the fraud plans in the coming election. Yanukovych just can’t help himself - crime is what he does, and his answer to getting caught the last time was easily predictable this time - more crime.
Posted by: Ron C at décembre 15, 2004 01:52 PMCompliments on the site!
As a USA expat reader in the PRC, I appreciate how it is not a blogspot site, as those are always blocked...
Say, don't be satisfied with spreading Orange from Serbia to Georgia to Ukraine to Belarus to Russia. There's 1.3 billion people one country farther to the east that we don't want to forget, neh?