Gentrifying the Christian ghetto since March 2003.
janvier 30, 2005
Caption Contest and Ukraine Update -- 30 Jan
Think up the best caption for this shot, and win the mildly-coveted honor of Clog of the Week!
CONFIRMATION NEWS:
- The vote on Yulia's confirmation is this Thursday.
- Poroshenko's Solidarnost Party decided to back Tymoshenko despite earlier reports that 18 of them would sit out. That makes the margin a lot less dicey.
- Yushchenko is speaking with his usual tact about Yulia's detractors, saying he understands their actions, and that everyone involved is in a search for compromise.
OTHER NEWS:
- George Soros denies financing the Orange Revolution. He stated in an interview that he helped with exit polling, but that the Revolution was in reality a "revolt of the people."
- Yushchenko has negotiated an agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development that will bring in up to one billion Euros in investment to Ukraine each year.
- The Prosecutor General says that the date for the identification of Gongadze's body will be set next week, and the ID will definitely be done in February. It'll be done by foreign experts in either Germany or Switzerland.
Photo: Kommersant
Posted by Discoshaman at janvier 30, 2005 03:13 AM
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"You feelin' lucky, punk?"
Dan, Can we have a hint as to who she is talking to? Is it AG Piskun by chance?
-overblogged. Sorry, make that Disco:
caption: You call me "Babe" one more time and your lights go out.
",...and then pull the braid tight into a coil around the back and it will cover that bald spot"
"And then I grabbed Lazarenko like this..."
Disco... it has to be..
"Vote against me, buddy, and I'll feed you this knuckle sandwich."
"And then Schwarzenegger says to me . . . "
"I haven't slept in two months, and you tell me I have bags under my eyes?"
Caption: I am NOT a bimbo!
Yulia Tymoshenko, shown here, engaged in political discussion - Ukrainian style.
do you really think i would have been wearing all this orange if i didn't plan to be loyal to you guys? it isn't my best color!
..if you tweak my tush one more time..
..and by looking at her facial expresion.."tush"..seems about right..love that fire in her eyes...
Look, all my clothes got lost at the cleaners, and this was all I had to wear today. Don't make a big deal out of it./i>
Why am I wearing this here? I'm a diehard UT Longhorns fan? Why do you think I'm wearing this?!
None of your business what I'm wearing underneath this!
No, I'm not being poisoned with dioxin too. I was just in a hurry this morning.
Trapped in The Matrix, Yulia does her best to fight of the exponentally replicating clones of Agent Smith.
I'll give you five good reasons to vote for me: one - two - three - four - five.
"You do right by Ukraina, or else!"
I don't know who she's speaking with, but this taunt remembered from childhood comes to mind:
See my fingers?
See my thumb?
See my fist?
You'd better run!
Discoshaman...
Back on November 30 you posted that very nice photo of the vote tally sheet obtained through your Reuter's friend. And you provided a link to an even higher-resolution version (an 80 KB file); however, I wish for an even higher-resolution version of this image...perhaps about ten times larger, if possible (perhaps the original uncompressed file). Do you have this? If not, can such a copy be obtained through your journalist friend?
I ask as I am a filmmaker currently in Kiev working on a documentary about democracy in the former Soviet states, and indeed this is an interesting, tangible, artifact of Soviet-style elections.
I can be reached at this silly-wounding address: carrots_onions@hotmail.com
"Call me Leia one more time and you going to get a knuckle sandwich"
About George Soros. I am cool that he gave money, the sad thing is that he didn't give to help the Ukranians, he gave knowing that Yuschenko was not for Iraq. It is simply a ploy to hurt the Bush administration anyway possible. He is a leftist and they have no interest in freedom just a socialist utopia which we all know is doomed to failure. But hey take his money by all means. hahahh
"Since you insist in calling me Leia...yes, the Force is STRONG in me...and HERE IS THE FORCE!"
Disco, is what Rick wrote about Soros true? I know that he is villified in UA because they believe that he has undermined UA politics but this from the people who oppose him because he advocates for UA entry into the EU and his detractors include those who support Kuchma. http://www.artukraine.com/events/soros2.htm
Open Society Institution has faced reprisals from authoritarian anti-democracy regimes (Belarus, Kazakhstan, etc.)
I do know that Soros is anti-Bush but I think that is in error for Rick to draw the direct line which he has - what say you?
Have you written on Soros prior, if so pls. direct me to info. Thanks.
"One of these days, Lyonya... POW! Right in the kisser!"
Hello and Rick-
I actively dislike Soros. But I really don't believe he invested in Ukrainian democracy just to undermine the coalition. If you look at the grants his foundation gave, many of them weren't political at all -- grants for medical stuff, education, etc. His people have done a lot of good for Ukraine and Ukrainian democracy, and looking at the nature of the grants it's hard to see any sort of ulterior motive.
Rick,
???? Soros gave money to central European NGOs throughout the 1990s. What does that have to do with Iraq?
It's just a pity he wasn't more successful in Belarus...
Also, I don't see how you can characterise the guy as socialist.
Yulia: "If you tell me how many hryvnias I have in my hand, I'll let you wear my braid!"
"I was this close to getting that thirty point buck!"
Disco,
I demand that I be named "Clog of the Week".
Caption, I don't need to write no stinkin' caption. Just give me what I want or ------> I am outta here!
(Hello has heavily immersed herself in the writings of O. Moroz and his magum opus - "How to Negotiate Your Way into Anything!: No need to earn it or deserve it" and his lesser known work "Twists of the Serpent: Political Intrigues, and Strategems". Let's see if it works.)
"And here we see, in her native habitat, a rare glimpse of one of the most controversial figures in Ukrainian politics, today known as "Nasha Yulia" (We have been advised by our legal Dept. that we cannot print how her opponents refer to her.)
"The hand of Yulia Tymoshenko, which rocked the cradle of the Orange Revolution, is now clenched tightly in a fist, to safeguard it's survival."
She is one tough 'mommy'!
"Braids on Parade"
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from article called "It's a wrap: braids on parade" about how Tymoshenko's signature style - honey-blonde, wrap-over plait - has become the height of fashion!
http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2005/02/01/efplait01.xml
Sorry -- need to amend my earlier entry -- my new and revised version goes like this -- hope I don't disqualify myself by entering twice ;-)
"No!! You can't wear my braid until you tell me how many hryvnias I have in my hand!!"
"You vote our way - or you will get some of these when I open those doors to the street."