Published in Ukrayinska Pravda

BYuT leader Yulia Tymoshenko calls for voters not to cast their votes for newly born parties but for trustworthy political forces.

He expressed her vision on air of 5 kanal (5 channel). Mrs. Tymoshenko declared it inadmissible that the victory should slip away from the democratic forces due to inner disputes about post distribution.

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Published in Forum

The BYuT electoral staff will be headed by Olexander Turchynov and Josyf Vinsky. Josyf Vinsky told that in an interview to the newspaper “Ukaina Moloda”.

According to him, the BYuT formed the electoral structure in April, when President of Ukraine had signed a decree on the VRU dismissal. “We held the sessions, slated candidates, all the pyramid has been already formed,” he told.

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Published in Zerkalo Nedeli
By: Yulia Tymoshenko

The Mirror Weekly is for Ukrainian politics the same as Forbes is for the world’s business elite. If the policymaker’s name does not appear in this paper for a very long time, people start to think that something has gone wrong him.

At the end of the last year, I tried to provide an overview of the political year in Mirror Weekly. This year Ukrainian politics is so unpredictable that I would like to give an overview of the results of the outgoing period earlier than at the end of the year because current events might be forgotten and loose their importance by winter.

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Published in Baku Sun

Ukraine’s former Orange Revolution partners traded allegations of betrayal Wednesday, blaming each other during an open parliament session for the failure to form a working government after 82 days of coalition talks. The three estranged parties that had led the 2004 Orange Revolution against election fraud had been engaged in difficult talks to reunite, but their negotiations fell apart over the weekend.

President Viktor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine party initially blamed the collapse on a disagreement with the Socialists over the parliamentary speaker’s job, but later said the main disagreements were over policy, such as Ukraine’s pro-Western ambitions.

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Published in Foreign Affairs
By: Yulia Tymoshenko

Summary: Russia's imperial ambitions did not end with the fall of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin has returned to expansionism, trying to recapture great-power status at the expense of its neighbors, warns one of Ukraine's most prominent politicians. The United States and Europe must counter with a strong response -- one that keeps Russia in check without sparking a new Cold War.

Yuliya Tymoshenko is the leader of Ukraine's parliamentary opposition. From January to September 2005, she was Prime Minister of Ukraine.

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