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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:07 pm Post subject: Yuliya Tymoshenko
She refuses to go 'quietly into the night'. Did she get cut out of all the dirty money floating around wrt NG/Oil? I think the Russians will use her to undercut the current gov't, get their man back in control, and then give her a piece of the action.
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Former premier Yuliya Tymoshenko called on the Prosecutor General to lay criminal charges against Naftohaz CEO Oleksiy Ivchenko and Fuel and Energy minister Ivan Plachkov. She said the agreement contravenes Ukrainian law and should be canceled because Ivchenko had no right to sign an agreement on creating a commercial joint venture that will control state assets. Inna Bohoslovska, leader of the "Viche" party, called on the dismissal of Ivchenko and Plachkov. She said that the price of 95 dollars per thousand cubic meters of natural gas is only for the first six months of the year, not for five years as the government claims. She said that Ukraine will pay 230 dollars. The United Social Democrat's "Ne Tak" bloc called on the dismissal of the entire Cabinet and said that the agreement is a mine that will blow up the country's economy over time. Progressive Socialist Party leader Natalia Vitrenko said that the entire gas dispute could have been avoided if Ukraine joined the Common Economic Space with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan
Note - this is the start of my 'semi-official' thread on Yuliya!
Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 987 Location: 38 km west of Warsaw, Poland
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:12 pm Post subject: Re: Yuliya Tymoshenko
Let us add to the timeline. Moving back to December 2005...
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MOSCOW, December 26 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Military Prosecutor's Office has withdrawn its case against former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko due to the statute of limitations, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said Monday.
"The Military Prosecutor's Office closed the case on former head of the industrial financial corporation Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko," the office said.
Tymoshenko was charged with bribing Russian Defense Ministry officials to secure contracts and inflicting $100 million in damages on Russia while she was head of a commercial firm. She was placed on the international wanted list after refusing to appear for questioning in Russia.
Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 987 Location: 38 km west of Warsaw, Poland
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:58 pm Post subject: Re: Yuliya Tymoshenko
Prepare for the future. I'm not just talking about the Ukraine either... She is coming!
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After last week's signing of a five-year natural gas agreement with Russia, Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko was basking in self-congratulation.
"I would call it a brilliant achievement," he said.
But former ally Yulia Tymoshenko called it otherwise.
"Only a person with a huge New Year's hangover can call this a success," said Tymoshenko, who was a partner in the 2004 Orange Revolution that brought Yushchenko to power and was his prime minister until last fall. "It's clear that the government has systematically and consciously betrayed the national interests of Ukraine."
Just a little more than a year ago, the two were a "dream team" that stood, hands clenched triumphantly together in the air, in Kiev's Independence Square. For much of the world, they came to symbolize democratic aspirations throughout the former Soviet bloc.
But just two months before parliamentary elections that could make or break Yushchenko's efforts to steer Ukraine toward Europe, the showdown with Russia over gas has left the two reformists more divided than ever.
In an alarming sign for Ukrainian liberals, Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party got just 13.7 percent in a poll taken before the gas deal, putting it in third place, trailing Tymoshenko's bloc.
Leading the pack is the party of former prime minister Viktor Yanukovych, the Russia-backed candidate who faced Yushchenko in 2004 and was defeated only after hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians occupied the streets and demanded new elections. His party now commands 26.6 percent in the polls.
Many felt Russia's move to quadruple natural gas prices was an attempt to punish Ukraine for its drift to the West. It presented the Yushchenko administration with its most serious crisis yet - the prospect of billions of dollars in higher gas costs.
Yushchenko successfully called on a broad range of Ukrainians to rally against the Russian enemy and emerged with a pact that he said guarantees the nation "true independence" where it counts.
"We have guaranteed ourselves a stable gas supply in the next five years, and this is the most important thing, believe me," he said.
But Tymoshenko has charged that Russia shrewdly outmaneuvered Ukraine and took home a deal that gives it almost everything it wanted.
The split with Tymoshenko is fragmenting the pro-Western camp amid growing disillusion over the results of the last year. Although tax revenues have skyrocketed with a clampdown on corruption, overall economic growth is down and prices are up; foreign investment is a fraction of what the new government hoped it would be.
Yushchenko's supporters blamed much of it on the populist economic policies of Tymoshenko, who threw investors into retreat when she threatened to renationalize about 3,500 businesses and imposed controls to check skyrocketing gasoline prices.
Since the pair split ways in September, they have traded insinuations of corruption in the other's camp.
"We hoped that the responsibilities assumed by Yushchenko and Tymoshenko would prevail over their personal ambitions. We hoped that cravings for power would not trump efforts to meet the people's needs," the weekly Zerkalo Nedeli wrote. "What we did not expect was that so soon and bitter would be the disappointment."
Opponents say Yushchenko's rich supporters transferred wealth from the old guard to themselves.
"They took advantage of their new positions to get back what they invested in the orange events," said Nestor Shufrych, an opposition leader.
"The fact that Yushchenko is now stating that he's eager to ally with Yanukovych in the parliament after the election can mean only two things. Either Yushchenko has become so weak that he's eager to cooperate with `bandits,' or that he lied a year ago, when he called Yanukovych and his team `bandits.' The way he lied about everything else."
Senior presidential adviser Volodymyr Horbulin acknowledged that the split with Tymoshenko and the economic setbacks have helped Yanukovych.
"On the other hand, taking into account the great changes in such a short time, it wouldn't be smart to think that we would be able to avoid making mistakes," he said.
Yushchenko's biggest challenge now is to work with a new parliament in which his Our Ukraine party almost certainly won't have a majority. Under new political reforms, the parliament has the power to hire and fire the prime minister and his Cabinet.
It seems unlikely that even together, Yushchenko and Tymoshenko would win a majority big enough to form a government, analysts say, but they will have to accommodate Yanukovych's Party of Regions.
Yanukovych, some say, could even become prime minister.
"It seems to me that this parliament election will be similar to the German situation. None of the parties will receive the majority that would enable them to form the government, and a coalition will have to be created," Horbulin said. "But there is no way that there will be a return of the political forces that were in power before the Orange Revolution."
Mikhail Pogrebinsky, director of the Center for Political and Conflict Studies in Kiev, said: "The policy will be less anti-Russian and less pro-Western. It will be a multivectored one, and a pragmatic one. It means that if there's something the US wants and can offer something in exchange, then OK, we have a deal.
"But I think both the US and Europe should be interested in this kind of coalition. Because it will guarantee stability in Ukraine." LOS ANGELES TIMES
Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 987 Location: 38 km west of Warsaw, Poland
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:24 pm Post subject: Re: Yuliya Tymoshenko
Finishes in 2nd and wants her old job back...
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Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, whose party was in second place with about a third of votes counted, demanded a quick deal that would result in her getting her old job back. President Viktor Yushchenko, smarting from his third-place finish Sunday, insisted there was no rush to hold talks.
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