Dmytro Skriabin

The situation with economic reform in Ukraine increasingly resembles the well-known sketch by famous Soviet-era comedian Raikin: “Who sewed my suit?” A hundred people come out and say, “we did.” “I am asking who sewed my suit? Who put pants instead of sleeves on it?” “I sewed on the...

On March 29, the Constitutional Court (CC) announced its ruling on the constitutionality of the President’s decree to hold a Ukrainian referendum on the people’s initiative. The CC recognized as constitutional the decree’s clauses on holding the referendum. Also found in compliance were four...

Parliament-Cabinet relationships are once again in the limelight after the Cabinet submitted its action program, followed by an exchange of rather sharp remarks and commentaries. Below People’s Deputy Serhiy Teriokhin (named Lawmaker of the Year and recipient of the Prometheus- Prestige Prize)...

The date of the Constitution Court ruling concerning the presidential edict calling the referendum will be postponed, court press service chief Volodymyr Shliaposhnykov declared. He confirmed that under the law and in view of the court’s resolution attaching top priority to the case, the judges...

Getting its action program to pass muster in Parliament is perhaps Viktor Yushchenko’s first serious test of strength. When forming the Cabinet, he received carte blanche from the President. Now the situation is somewhat different. On the one hand, Leonid Kuchma declared Yushchenko’s ouster is out...

The fragmentation of forces on the Left political flank is picking up momentum. It seems we will soon have to report exactly in this style, reminiscent of Soviet reports on harvest campaigns, on the new splits and new political formations. Some see in this process the result of the techniques tried...

The eleven people, who occupied last Thursday the Communist Party of Ukraine Central Committee premises in Kyiv, vacated them on March 10 at about one a.m. This group of young people calling themselves members of the Samostiina Ukrayina (Independent Ukraine) youth organization put forward demands...

The change in the parliamentary leadership was accomplished as a result of the creation of the Right majority, which literally scratched and clawed power from the Left. For the first time in Ukraine’s ten years of independence, the Left found itself a minority in parliament. Some say this event is...

The Youth Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (MKUN, adherents of the late Stepan Bandera) picketed the Belarusian Embassy in Kyiv on February 22. Its press release declared action was organized as a sign of protest against the Belarusian authorities’ ban of the Ukrainian Cultural-Educational...

A budget item was heard in the second reading by the Verkhovna Rada on February 17 in the presence of the Cabinet and Premier Yushchenko invited to the parliamentary sitting. Oleksandr Turchynov, reporting on behalf of the budget committee, said all disputable budget items had been agreed upon by...