Andriy Myseliuk

The Internet newspaper Ukrayinska pravda has garnered its first million website visitors. Without doubt quite an event for the political Uanet that took place last week. Also, the number of visits Ukrayinska pravda showed the previous week got this electronic edition far ahead of all other...

The week before last new US Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual, met with the Ukrainian Internet community (I picked up this term from one of our newest programs). Ukrainian journalists spoke at the meeting about the flight of political journalism to the Internet in response to the pressure of...

Many things are known to have changed since the days of the velvet revolution. Gone is former Speaker Oleksandr Tkachenko who, trying to ward off his dismissal, revealed the names of those majority members who were absent when the decision was being made, and pronounced it invalid. Yet his cause...

According to Volodymyr Lytvyn, head of the Presidential Administration, Ukraine’s political post-referendum situation can be characterized as a stable one. This stability, however, is rather shaky: it facilitates antagonism among different political forces, since certain parties review the...

The parliamentary elections are approaching slowly but surely. Some domestic political analysts believe early elections to Verkhovna Rada will remain a real alternative for the next several months. Hence, party conventions of late have been assessed primarily in the parties’ preparedness for...

Registration of candidate People’s Deputies ended on May 25 to vie for ten seats in the special elections to Verkhovna Rada. Among those trying to get among the parliamentary Top Ten are such residents of the Ukrainian political Olympus as Naftohaz Ukrayiny former president Ihor Bakai (...

According to Volodymyr Lytvyn, chief of the Presidential Administration, President Leonid Kuchma can solve the equation called Resignation of the Crimean Government in at least two ways. The first is to quash the Crimean Parliament’s vote of no confidence in the autonomous republic’s government and...

Verkhovna Rada has received sort of a time-out in the process of legislative confirmation of the referendum results. Having submitted two bills to the Constitutional Court (CC) and still awaiting its verdict, the People’s Deputies have an opportunity to prepare to debate the bills in the...

There is an intriguing aspect about the interim commission of inquiry investigating former Speaker Tkachenko. It was formed by a resolution passed almost unanimously early at the first sitting of the parliamentary majority on January 21. And as its report was submitted on Tuesday May 16, the...

Jacques Ellul once said about the modern world the everybody is talking and nobody is listening to anybody in it. These words might as well be an epigraph to the talk show “Dialogues about Democracy” (April 14, channel 1+1) which hosted US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and some...