Lutsenko: Tymoshenko 'Had to Borrow From Oligarchs Yet She Would Hear Voters Only’

Whoever wrote that speech has a great sense of humor and balance.

Lutsenko: Dear friends, a major goal of the new leadership of United Fatherland is to learn to hear people, party members and independents. The invincible power of Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko was that she, like all the other politicians, had to borrow money from the oligarchs yet she would hear the voters only, and not her campaign contributors. We have to learn from this and bring that spirit back to Fatherland and to the opposition as a whole. [round of applause]

6:36-7:06

If Tymoshenko heard her voters so well, why didn’t they vote for her? And does the All-Hearing Crowdsourcer know you raid his closet?

Here comes the harsh part. Take your time to observe the VIP body language and that of the audience at large.

Lutsenko: Dear friends, I have friends among Fatherland’s leadership, it is you address: In order to be honest and talk about moral revolution and, by extension, political revolution, get rid of the turncoat generator within the party. [round of applause] Dear friends, we all, including yours truly, need to get rid of, discard, the practice of masquerade politics whereby it seems that it’s enough just to say “I’m not Yanukovych!” and, conceivably, support will be guaranteed. We should stop harboring Potemkin designs in politics. People see the falsehood and fiction behind these things and that’s why millions won’t take to the streets. Let’s be honest about it and start acting in new ways, like Tymoshenko did when Ukraine was winning. 

7:10-8:01  

When was the last time Tymoshenko acted in new ways?

Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/video_news/244715/lutsenko_volshebnik_ne_priletit_osvobojdat_yulyu_vertolet_davno_ukraden_i_stoit_v_mejigore_volshebnikov
http://tvi.ua

Lutsenko’s Wife Frets Over Lockup ‘Aura’

You’ve made your aura, now lie in it.

Mrs. Lutsenko: We...uh...have knowledge that he’s in cell 158. This cell initially served for...as death row. Later, in this cell, they keep...they kept...those sentenced to life. I believe this aura...that engulfs this cell...well, it’s...uh...unacceptable for my husband. He’s not a convict.

Did you say “aura,” ma’am? What about tangible things like torture?

Like breathing inside a plastic bag? Like being anally assaulted with an attitude adjuster? Like being beaten to death? Like being a vegetable for the rest of your life?







Agreed, it’s unfair to single out Lutsenko, given the crimes of others.

After all, what did Lutsenko do? Not much. He would drink and dance on the taxpayers’ dime, hopping from talk show to talk show. And all this time he would sit on top of an insanely corrupt, sadistic and bloated police force.

What do you make of a country whose interior minister promotes his driver to the rank of Lt. Colonel? What do you make of a country whose police outnumbers its army two to one?

Lutsenko specialized in crimes of omission, not commission. The Georgians made police reform happen. Lutsenko made shit happen. That’s it.

As much as I hate Yanukovych, I love the medicine he has administered to one part of our elite.

In its own time, the other part will get a taste of its own medicine.

Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/ru/video_news/view/149424/lutsenko_derjat_v_kamere_smertnikov__jena_opalnogo_eksministra_videos http://kanalukraina.tv
http://tsn.ua

Lutsenko's Wife, Friends Celebrate New Year Outside Lockup

You're gonna be impotent! No, not you, Mr. President!

Iryna Lutsenko: I wish him...faithful friends. I wish him health. I wish him no harm. I think he’s a bighearted man...and...a strong man...uh...a man who achieved absolute power that we’re witnessing now in our country shouldn’t be vengeful. He should respect his enemies...or opponents.

Mustafa Nayem: How could this be that you’re greeting the current president in charge and yet you blamed Viktor Yushchenko for what happened to your husband?
Mrs. Lutsenko: Uh...I don’t have it in me to greet him on this New Year. I...can’t...can’t be insincere here. I don’t have good words for him.

Nayem: But you do have them for Yanukovych?
Mrs. Lutsenko: They’re not good. They’re neutral.

So it’s safewords for Yanukovych and badwords for Yushchenko?

Seriously, why blame Yushchenko? Don’t you guys deserve each other?

2005: Yushchenko becomes president, Lutsenko becomes minister;
2006-2007: Lutsenko goes on sabbatical; wireless story leaks out;
2007-2008: Lutsenko makes comeback, backs Tymoshenko;
2009: Fun in Frankfurt; Yanukovych-Tymoshenko coalition talks.

Law-abiding citizens beaten, tortured and murdered by police: thousands
High-profile criminals caught: um...1? Ihor Zvarych?

2010: Game over.

Quite a president we have now. Finally, somebody takes Yushchenko’s campaign promises a bit more seriously! “Bandits will sit in jail,” remember?

Makes you want to rehash your hubby's “one law for all” (“not just for me”) recipe, huh?

Source:
http://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/nayem/4d201b5b0470c/

Lutsenko’s Wife Curses Prosecutor: ‘You’re Gonna Be Impotent!’

Forget Tamiflu! Think Viagra!

Lutsenko’s wife: How can one tolerate such a lie? It’s just impossible! Why are you staring at me? Why are you staring at me, liar? You’re gonna be impotent! I’m looking right into your eyes. You’re gonna be impotent!

Power can be soooo sexy. Losing power sux.

He lost his power, but not his sense of humor.

Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/ru/video_news/view/148663/jena_lutsenko_proklyala_prokurora_quotbudesh_ty_impotentomquot_video
http://kanalukraina.tv

Yushchenko, Lutsenko Trade Barbs on Corruption

How do they fight corruption in China (CPI: #79)? Capital punishment.

How do they fight corruption in Indonesia (CPI: #111)? Protests.

How do they fight corruption Ukraine (CPI: #146)? Words.




Storyline:

• Yushchenko calls Lutsenko and other law enforcement chiefs “accomplices”;
• Lutsenko calls the allegation “unfair” and walks out the door;
• Yushchenko cites Lutsenko’s unsolved/closed cases;
• Lutsenko cites Yushchenko's cronyism/cover-ups;
• Yushchenko calls for a probe into BYuT’s election employee incentives;
• Lutsenko pulls Yushchenko’s portrait from his office wall;
• Yushchenko asks Tymoshenko to fire Lutsenko.

That’s all, folks!

Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/141641.html
Original sources:
http://tsn.ua
http://5.ua
http://ictv.ua
http://inter.ua
http://www.1tv.com.ua
http://kanalukraina.tv

Lutsenko Tenders Resignation, Plans to Sue Bild

Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, following the scandal at Frankfurt Airport, has tendered his resignation to the Verkhovna Rada, Ukrayinska Pravda reports.

At the same time, Lutsenko has denied wrongdoing, claiming that he only had a mug of beer, that he has no quarrel with German police and that the Hesse state police chief even apologized to him. (In official statements, German police and Lufthansa maintain otherwise. Deputy police chief Günter Hefner in the state of Hesse has denied Lutsenko's apology claim.)

Lutsenko plans to sue Bild, the German newspaper that first circulated the report, after accusing the tabloid of defamation. He has also alluded to his fellow party members as being behind what he called a “smear campaign” against him.

Sources:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/5/12/94459.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/5/12/94456.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/5/12/94514.htm

German Police: 4 Officers Wounded in Lutsenko Incident

Three men and a woman were wounded during the violent incident involving an intoxicated Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, Jürgen Linker, a spokesman for Frankfurt police, says.

In news reports by BBC and DW, quoted by Ukrayinska Pravda, Linker states that two officers were hospitalized with bruises and lacerations. The other two sustained lighter injuries.

Frankfurt police will forward the crime report to Ukrainian authorities upon request.

Despite President Yushchenko’s call for an investigation, no such requests have been made so far, nor have there been any public statements from Lutsenko.

Sources:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/5/7/94308.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ukrainian/indepth/story/2009/05/090506_lutsenko_pysanska_oh.shtml
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4233106,00.html

Ukrainian Interior Minister Detained in Drunken Brawl in Germany

Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko and his 19-year-old son Oleksandr spent half a day at a police station Monday after being detained for disorderly conduct at Frankfurt Airport, Ukrayinska Pravda reports, quoting Bild and DW.

It all began when airport authorities prevented them from boarding a flight to Seoul due to being intoxicated and thus posing a flight security risk. Upset by the move, the two hurled abuse at German police officers, fought them and threw cell phones at them.

Oleksandr, the more aggressive of the two, had to be cuffed. His alcohol test showed 3 per mil. (For comparison, 0.5 per mil or higher is against the law for German drivers.)

Interior Minister Lutsenko, the father — who had campaigned under the slogan of “one law for all” in 2007 — managed to avoid the test on the grounds of diplomatic immunity.

Except for the alcohol test results, Frankfurt police has confirmed the report to DW.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior has denied the report. Lutsenko arrived in Frankfurt for a stopover and couldn't board the flight to Seoul because he showed up late for it, the Ministry says.

President Viktor Yushchenko has called on PM Yulia Tymoshenko to investigate the incident and report within two days.



P.S. To every fun-loving “Ich bin ein Frankfurter” Ukrainian minister who can't drink Ukraine's “one law for all” out of their head:




Sources:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/5/6/94273.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/5/6/94279.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/5/6/94275.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/5/6/94285.htm
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4230304,00.html
http://www.bild.de/BILD/regional/frankfurt/aktuell/2009/05/06/juri-luzenko-zu-betrunken/lufthansa-kapitaen-nahm-ukrainischen-innenminister-nicht-mit.html

The Tymoshenko Cabinet: A Hydra in Your Pocket

Serhiy Leshchenko of Ukrayinska Pravda has written a short guide to the wheeling and dealing in the Tymoshenko cabinet.

For a better idea of Ukraine’s cost of government, try asking this question: How many deputies/undersecretaries do Ukrainian cabinet ministers have?

Here’s your answer:

Heorhiy Filipchuk, Minister of Health Care: 10
Yuriy Melnyk, Minister of Agriculture: 10
Yuriy Lutsenko, Minister of Internal Affairs: 9
Mykola Onishchuk, Minister of Justice: 8
Lyudmyla Denysova, Minister of Labor: 8
Yuriy Pavlenko, Minister of Youth Affairs: 8
Vasyl Vovkun, Minister of Culture, 7
Serhiy Buryak, Head of the State Tax Administration: 10
Viktor Ivchenko, Head of the State Innovation and Investment Agency: 6
Serhiy Lytvyn, Head of the State Border Guard Administration: 6
Oleh Dubyna, Chairman of Naftogaz: 8
Oleksandr Medvedko, Prosecutor General: 8
Valeriy Heletey, Head of the State Security Directorate: 7

"The Tymoshenko School of Management. Where every minister counts."

Sources: http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/4/15/93272.htm

To Protect or Not to Protect, Lutsenko Sorts Out Protests

Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko: Citizens must realize that there are protests with concrete demands, which the Ministry of Internal Affairs will protect in every way…but with concrete demands to the government, and not just with a notice that we’ll be sitting here eternally so that you can see us.

That’s exactly the approach police took on March 20 when they turned a blind eye to the crackdown on “Out, all!” protesters at Maidan.

They simply watched the protesters’ tents trashed by Shchyt, a group of retired military and security officers who claim opposing anarchy.

So much for the Lutsenko who rallied at Maidan during the Orange Revolution! So much for the “Militsiya z narodom!” (“Police with the people!”) slogan.

According to Lutsenko’s logic, he had no business setting up those tents at Maidan in 2004 — the very tents that catapulted him to his ministerial post.

Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/117316.html
Original source: http://stb.ua

Police 'Mistake' Costs Man His Palm

February 22, 2009, approximately 1:00 a.m.
Myrne, Crimea, Ukraine

A SWAT team surrounds what they believe to be the hiding place of a man who used a gun to abduct a 23-year-old woman.

To storm the building, they use an NFDD (noise flash diversionary device).

Dweller Mustafa Khairov, 59, a Crimean Tatar, catches the damn thing and...BOOM!!!...his palm is all over the place.



His son, Eivaz, 25, sustained multiple injuries. He heard the dog barking, went outside to check for burglars, and got overrun by police.

In this Channel 1+1 footage, Mustafa’s wife, Uriye, talks about her husband’s flesh slowly descending on the room — like confetti.

"There's been a mistake," police said.

That’s the way police works in Ukraine, and particularly in Crimea. In fact, Crimean law enforcement appears to be bent on inciting a civil war.

Well, sometimes they do catch the bad guys — if only to let them go.

Recently, they caught two men poaching in the Zone of Alienation, with a moose in their trunk. Guess where the poachers work? They work at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, currently occupied by ombudswoman Nina Karpachova of the Party of Regions.

I wonder if Lutsenko will use such devices to disperse rallies against, say, Chernovetsky’s out-f**cking-rageous satellite dish, air conditioner and bachelor taxes. If so, it will be a palm for a palm and a ball for a ball.

P.S. According to recent polls, 36.5% of Ukrainians will take to the streets if left without incomes. 70% don't trust the government. 18% hate the government.

Some governments have to learn the hard way?

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Original source: http://tsn.ua

Pynzenyk Memo Divides Cabinet

The Pynzenyk memo refers to a written wake-up call from Finance Minister Viktor Pynzenyk that extrapolates current economic data and warns of an impending economic meltdown.

Leaked to the media, the memo created negative publicity for Premier Tymoshenko and even inspired President Yushchenko to quote it in his recent address.

From day one, spokespersons for Tymoshenko have denied the memo's authenticity. And so did Vice Premier Oleksandr Turchynov, on Wednesday:

It surprises me when such a responsible person as the President draws his conclusions regarding the state of the budget based on reports from the Internet. I am not aware of any such official letter from the Minister of Finance, and that upon this letter, with such-and-such addressor and addressee, the head of state’s conclusions could be based. That is, [we’re dealing with] the Internet, that is, [we’re dealing with] some other opinion, which has nothing to do with reality or with what’s going on in the government.

However, at least two senior government officials had already confirmed the report, speaking on last Friday’s “Svoboda” talk show on Inter.

The “whistleblowers” are: Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, who backs Tymoshenko, and Customs-Chief-Cum-Deputy-SBU-Director Valeriy Khoroshkovsky, backed by Yushchenko.

Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko: There’s nothing secret or extraordinary about this document. Every Cabinet member got one on their desk. Nobody forbade it from being sent, contrary to what some media outlets have written about it, and the way you’re now emphasizing the word secrecy is divorced from reality.

Talk show host: What’s your take on…

Lutsenko: It’s a working document of the Ministry of Finance, just like all other documents at the Ministry of the Interior, at the Ministry of Economy, and at the Ministry Transport.

Deputy SBU Director Valeriy Khorshkovsky: Yes, I’ve seen this memo. Moreover, we even discussed it with the Finance Minister, and I want to say that I even made certain amendments because some of the figures there were beyond my comprehension. Uh...it’s a real document...uh...frankly, I don’t know why it has stirred up such a commotion because, frankly, all that’s in there is a systemic look at all the problems that have been piling up during a rather long period of time.

So which one of them is not telling the truth?

Not only do they have conflicts of info in the Cabinet, but they also seem to have conflicts of interest.

Tymoshenko has admitted to “inviting” what she called “foreign investors” to participate in the Inter acquisition talks. Earlier, Khoroshkovsky, who calls himself the channel’s official owner, mentioned in an interview that Tymoshenko had expressed interest to buy Inter.

Khoroshkovsky, in his own words, had insisted that the money should be “clean,” citing transparency concerns arising from the channel’s IPO preparations. This requirement had upset Tymoshenko. “Actually, it was after this that talk of some investors began,” Khoroshkovsky said.

Tymoshenko links Inter to Firtash and accuses the channel of bias and propaganda, a claim not without foundation. Firtash owns an option to buy a 50% stake in U.A. Inter Media Group Limited, which controls Inter.

On Thursday, the Party of Regions, whose MPs have lobbied on behalf of RosUkrEnergo, failed to gather enough votes to sack Tymoshenko, after calling her on the carpet in the Verkhovna Rada.

Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/112160.html
Original source: http://inter.ua
Other sources:
http://www.epravda.com.ua/publications/497ee1f14c7d6/
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/2/4/89079.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/2/3/89038.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/1/27/88590.htm

Police Beat Up T Fare Hike Protesters in Kyiv

A rally outside the Kyiv City Council on Sunday gathered left-wing youths and non-partisan Kyivites unhappy with the recent quadrupling of public transport fare.

The fare has skyrocketed from Hr. 0.5 to Hr. 1.5-2 ($0.25-0.30). In a city where a school teacher makes about Hr. 1,200 a month and monthly rent for a single-room apartment averages Hr. 3,600, the rally was surprisingly small and peaceful.



The protesters brought a “coffin of the bourgeois,” burned a few tires symbolizing the “fare yoke,” chanted slogans, and sang protest songs.

Riot police responded brutally, clubbing the protesters and dragging them by hair into detention buses, without sparing even minors and journalists.

Is that what Yuriy Lutsenko, today’s Interior Minister, meant when chanting “militsiya z narodom!” (“police with the people!”) during the Orange Revolution? Is he doing penance for hitting Mayor Chernovetsky “in places that men usually take pride in?”

How long before we have Paris all over the place?

Sources: http://kiev.pravda.com.ua/news/4917f55d1e324/

Oops!... She Did It Again

NUNS Vows to Quit Orange Coalition After BYuTney Sides With PRU, CPU

Allegations of Tymoshenko’s treason have materialized. At least, that’s how NUNS, the spurned party, may think. On Tuesday, the Orange Coalition failed to pass a resolution on Georgia, and instead saw an ad hoc alliance between BYuT, the Party of Regions, and the Communist Party. The three joined forces to simplify the impeachment procedure and strip President Yushchenko of key prerogatives.

Orchestrated by PM Tymoshenko of BYuT, the move may outbitch President Yushchenko’s own not-so-secret ambition: a grand coalition between his loyalists and a PRU splinter group — his reelection elixir.

If so, it marks the coming out of the closet for a love and hate triangle in which BYuT and NUNS, perpetually on the verge of divorce, always gave the Party of Regions the glad eye.

That gives us the following Kodak moment of the battleground: Tymoshenko, BYuT, Medvedchuk, and the majority of the PRU, and the Communists on one side, and Yushchenko, NUNS, Baloha, and Chernovetsky on the other. The angels must be weeping at the sight of such “pragmatic” matches made in…Hollywood!

In this divine comedy, Kuchma's chief of staff Medvedchuk plays the “missing link” role connecting Immaculate Tymoshenko and the infernal forces of the Kremlin, as many evolution theorists believe. Lyubov Sliska, Vice Speaker of the Russian Duma, has praised Tymoshenko’s evolution, saying that if she stays the course, she will become president. What a heartbreaker for silly fools like me who supported her in parliamentary elections.

BYuT claims it “sees no alternative to the Orange Coalition.” Echoing this love ballad, some optimists dismiss yesterday’s vote as a one-night stand, noting the fact that unholy alliances in the Rada featuring Tymoshenko have appeared before.

Meanwhile, that same night, NUNS held an emergency meeting and decided to pull out of the Orange Coalition. The decision will take effect 11 days after it was made.

With the notable exception of Interior Minister Lutsenko, Cabinet ministers representing NUNS did not attend the Wednesday meeting of the Cabinet. Lutsenko blames the crisis on Baloha’s brinkmanship and believes that the only way to save the Coalition is to fire Baloha, Yushchenko’s chief of staff.

As NUNS and BYuT exchanged recriminations, Yushchenko came to the Rada to announce that a de facto coalition has been formed between BYuT, the Party of Regions, and the Communist Party. He accused Tymoshenko of setting up a dictatorship and gave the Verkhovna Rada 30 days to finalize the freshly minted coalition or face dissolution.

In a UP article on the BYuT-PRU-CPU hookup, Serhiy Leshchenko and Mustafa Nayem quote a BYuT MP who calls it “safe sex.” Safe for whom? It may be safe for prima domina Tymoshenko, but is it safe for Ukraine?

Sources:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2008/9/3/80670.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2008/9/3/80701.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2008/9/3/80679.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2008/9/3/80700.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2008/9/3/80670.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2008/9/3/80699.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2008/9/3/80702.htm
http://trinixy.ru/2007/02/26/britni_atakuet_zontikom_18_fotografijj.html
http://www.tymoshenko.com.ua/ukr/export/#wallpapers

Lutsenko Claims Persecution, Accuses President of Shyrka Plans

Speaking outside the Office of the Prosecutor-General, where he was summoned for interrogation, Minister of the Interior Lutsenko said this:

They haven’t invented anything new. I’m being asked why I flew on vacation, together with my family, to the Crimea and back. They also have reconfigured the Chernovetsky case from simple battery, which, according to Ukrainian law, does not carry criminal penalties, to abuse of authority. Now that’s something new. One might just as well reconfigure it to cruel treatment of animals.

Now that NUNS has fizzled out in the recent Kyiv municipal election, Lutsenko speaks with his tongue untied. Later in the day, the Minister of the Interior minced no words at his press conference.

I lost Kyiv elections to Baloha. I’m an honest politician and that's why I always call a spade a spade. I lost to the Secretariat of the President, which has managed to completely destroy the Kyivites’ support for NUNS.

It’s a heavy blow for me personally and for the future electability of Narodna Samooborona, but first and foremost, the bell tolls for Nasha Ukrayina.

Today, we’re witnessing an obvious coup d’etat taking place during the last month. It’s absolutely positively evident that President Yushchenko supports the Baloha-Kolesnikov plan of destroying the democratic coalition elected by the people in 2007, which formed a majority in parliament.

The plan is very simple: Baloha and Kolesnikov have convinced the President that if Chernovetsky has managed to buy the not-to-poor and quite educated Kyiv, then the Donetsk clan can easily buy the not-so-prosperous Ukraine.

Already, in early May, during a meeting with the President of Ukraine, attended by his Chief of Staff, Speaker of Parliament, and NUNS representatives, I was confronted with two requirements: to consent to a grand coalition in the Verkhovna Rada and to a coalition with Chernovetsky in the Kyiv City Council. And, second, to stop pursuing those who are being protected (and whose criminal cases are being soft-pedaled) by the Donetsk clan and the Secretariat of the President.

The President’s response was, quote, “Yura, cut all this cop crap. Remember, as long as I’m President, everyone who comes to my office wearing a tie will not land in jail.” It was a challenge to me, to everything that I did in 2005.

If the plan to destroy the democratic coalition is stopped, if the President states that there will be no grand coalition, and that he will discontinue any contact whatsoever with the Donetsk crime bosses, and will provide an opportunity to pursue any person, regardless of what party they belong to, then I have no objections.

The litmus test for the current government is the willingness to replace the Prosecutor-General, who has turned into a general graveyard of high-profile cases on high-profile people, and into a vehicle of political persecution in overblown cases against others.

I categorically deny the allegation that in 2005 I traveled by air twenty times, let alone with my family. This matter was looked into after my first suspension in 2006; there was no evidence to prove my guilt. Today, they’re trying to dig out this old and supposedly already dead dog and to hang it on me.

Standing procedure circulated by the Ministry of the Interior allows the families of personnel to travel in any direction for leisure or other purposes.

There were such options. For example, I was invited by Lviv authorities and by the state leadership to participate in city festivities together with my wife, so we went together. As for the naval forces festivities, the Commander and the Minister of Defense also invited me and my wife. We went there, too. I flew to Israel on an official invitation, together with my wife, as required by protocol. I guess we went to Greece, too.

Is this a case of Lutsenko's backstabbing or Yushchenko's backsliding? Let's wait and see.

At any rate, the fortunes of Georgian-born Davyd Zhvania, the man who reportedly bankrolls Narodna Samooborona, too, have changed dramatically. Once a friend of the Yushchenko family, he now faces the prospect of having his Ukrainian citizenship revoked.

While authorities cite violations of immigration law, Zhvania alludes to undeserved reprisals from Yushchenko.

According to some media reports, Yushchenko may suspect Zhvania of having a role in his 2004 poisoning.

Sources:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2008/5/27/76565.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2008/5/27/76567.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2008/5/27/76569.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2008/5/20/76046.htm

Kyiv in Colors 4
A Trip to Kyiv City Elections 2008

Here's another shipment.

Part II
May 17

The Omelchenko Bloc experiments with The Motherland Calls! WW II poster
More hot air from HAK at the background



Based on my balcony polls, Obolon will break for BYuT.




Election Village at Heroyiv Dnipra Station



Never too far?




The quest for the lesser evil can quite a headache.
I'm sure Hryhoriy Skovoroda, cast in stone, would agree.


The little-known Agrarian Party camps outside the Podil branch of the National Bank



Take it like a man!


What a thought-provoking placement!


That scene makes for a high-credibility ad!

See those handouts?


Kyrpa's Bridge



Isn't she lovely?


The Unification Ark built in honor of the Pereyaslav Treaty


Hug Horbal and Co


Some sports event was held at Maidan


Kick Kosmos



I didn't put him there.


The Lytvyn Bloc: Kids First!





HAK putting a show, slaying dragons and delivering damsels in distress




People just love HAK




Checking Chernoco


Taras Shevchenko Monument


Taras Shevchenko National University, a hangout for Kuchma courtesy of Yushchenko




Make no mistake, I won't keep mum, I won't let them steal!
Kyiv will win if Brodsky makes it to the City Council
[Take a hike!]










Who did this to "poor" Pylypyshyn?

May 18



Wanna be where the voters are? Try beating BYuT!






A Lutsenko rally announcement


Yevhen Nishchuk
This guy ran the stage at Maidan


Maria Burmaka "Chroni chereshni" ("Sweet Black Cherries")


Maria Burmaka "Ne Biysya" ("Don't Fear"), an Orange Revolution song




Lutsenko grabs the mike, blasts Chernovetsy, land grabs, immunity from prosecution.
Note how NUNS has replaced its 2007 campaign slogan "one law for all" with "law and justice."