Vasyl Stoyakin

Thus we still do not and, in all probability, will never know any clear results of the mayoral elections in Mukacheve. In any case, such things as official decisions of the electoral commission, court rulings, and even the fact that the elected candidate has assumed office, are no longer a...

We all have repeatedly heard allegations from the opposition to the effect that the political reform has been conceived by Medvedchuk and Kuchma to refuse the people access to power through its best representatives, Our Ukraine. We have also heard that a fair reform can be implemented only by a...

The new political reform project, voiced by Oleksandr Moroz and Petro Symonenko at a news conference, then seconded by President Kuchma in his holiday address, allows one to view Ukraine’s political future from a different perspective. The current parliamentary majority, with the Communists alone,...

It is not ruled out that the failed April 17 vote on the Election Law signals a new stage in the ongoing Ukrainian political intrigue. It would be good, of course, if this stage were not too long, for failure to pass this law could bring the political reform to a halt or, worse still, prompt the...

Against the background of the ongoing census in Ukraine, deliberate understatement of the number of Ukrainians has again come into the political limelight promising to enter parties’ political agendas, as the case was in 1998 and 1999. Politicians, practically regardless of their party affiliations...

History is said to teach us one main lesson, that there are no lessons from history. Watching the current election campaign, it is obvious that no one seems aware of the blunders made during previous such campaigns in Russia and Ukraine. Listing them would require too much space, and hence I will...