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News Source: Moscow Times
| about 1 year ago
Ukraine's feuding leaders intensified their power struggle Saturday, with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko seeking to undo President Viktor Yushchenko's decision to hold early parliamentary elections. Election officials refused to start preparations...
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News Source: Kiev Post
| about 1 year ago
Party of Regions boss Viktor Yanukovich sparred with Yulia Tymoshenko on TV, Oct. 10, saying Ukraine "needs neither actors nor fashion shows. Politicians have kicked off the campaign for Ukraine's third election in as many years in a televised...
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News Source: Russia Today
| about 1 year ago
Timoshenko is aiming to stop the vote going ahead after the collapse of the governing coalition. The final decision, however, rests with the constitutional court. It comes after this week’s announcement by President Yushchenko to dissolve...
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News Source: B92
| about 1 year ago
The Kiev District Court today suspended the Ukrainian president's decree to dissolve parliament and call snap parliamentary polls, the Unian agency reported. Volodymyr Pylypenko, a representative of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, was quoted as saying...
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News Source: Kiev Post
| about 1 year ago
Ukrainian elections officials say a court has suspended a presidential decree ordering an early parliamentary elections. President Viktor Yushchenko's office, however, says the court order has no basis since the judge was fired earlier. The decision...
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News Source: United Press International
| about 1 year ago
A Ukrainian official said the early parliamentary elections called for by the country's president may be endangered by a lack of funding. Zhanna Usenko Chernaya, deputy chairwoman of the Central Electoral Commission, said members of the Ukrainian...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dismissed Judge Volodymyr Keleberda of the Kyiv District Administrative Court on Friday, the presidential press service has reported. "He [the judge] did not have powers to consider a suit by the Yulia Tymoshenko...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 year ago
he Toronto stock exchange (TSX) ticker shows a sharp decline lower shortly after markets opened on Friday in Toronto. (J.P. Moczulski/Canadian Press) The crisis goes global If there was any doubt that the financial turbulence in the U.S. had spread...
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News Source: Associated Press
| about 1 year ago
Ukraine's prime minister said Friday there will be no early parliamentary elections, defying a presidential decree and raising the stakes in her fierce political battle with the president...But Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko called his decision...
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News Source: International Business Times
| about 1 year ago
The world crisis has not spared Ukraine, and the country was further shaken this week when President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved parliament and called an early vote on Dec...The vote will be the third parliamentary election in as many years, and...