The Verkhovna Rada Tuesday fired Volodymyr Ohryzko, Ukraine’s foreign affairs minister, who had recently reprimanded Russian ambassador Viktor Chernomyrdin for meddling in Ukraine’s internal affairs.
The move gathered 250 votes: 174 from the Party of Regions, 27 from the Communist Party, and 49 from the increasingly pro-Russian BYuT.
“First, let them think and then talk, and not wag their tongues,” Ambassador Chernomyrdin was quoted as saying, reflecting on Ohryzko’s note of protest.
Tymoshenko resented Ohryzko’s direct reporting relationship with President Yushchenko. “As Minister, Ohryzko radically did not suit me. It's a person that is not professional, a person who systemically engaged in provocations against the government.”
To hell with political correctness! It's about time Tymoshenko appointed Сhernomyrdin Ukraine's foreign affairs minister!
Sources:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/3/3/90614.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/3/3/90620.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/3/3/90657.htm
http://www.ukranews.com/eng/article/181238.html
http://gska2.rada.gov.ua/pls/radac_gs09/gol_karta_zal3?g_id=5277
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Parliament Sacks Ohryzko (Updated)
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Rada Rejects Yushchenko’s MFA and SBU Picks
As expected, Volodymyr Ohryzko and Victor Korol, who vied for the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Director of the Security Service, respectively, failed to gather support from the Anticrisis Coalition.
It turns out acting MFA head Volodmyr Ohryzko has the nasty habit of speaking Ukrainian in conversations with Russian guests on Ukrainian soil.
And as for MP Viktor Korol, NSNU, the media link him to NSNU mogul Petro Poroshenko, Yushchenko’s chief campaign contributor and a de facto persona non grata in Russia.
The Kremlin can’t stomach these guys, and that’s not the kind of gas Yanukovych needs.
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