http://zik.com.ua/ Independent Information Agency http://zik.com.ua/im/logo-zik-rss.gif http://zik.com.ua/ http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/07/03/187342 Addressing journalists in Kirovohrad July 3, Premier Yulia Tymoshenko said she regrets having accepted in BYUT Viktor Lozynsky after his defection from the Party of Regions in 2007. Lozynsky has been accused of murder and is on the run. Society Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:25:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/07/03/187341 A Rada lawmaker, Taras Chornovil, says in his interview with The Stolychni Novyny the recent appointment by Viktor Yanukovych of Mykola Azarov to head his campaign staff is “a slap in the face” of Rinat Akhmetov, Azarov’s bitter enemy, and a provocation of an inner-party conflict. Politics Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:47:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/07/02/187174 The leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych is not supportive of holding a snap parliamentary election prior to the presidential one, saying both elections should be simultaneous, Ukrayinska Pravda reports. Politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:10:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/07/02/187173 Serhy Tihipko, one of the presidential contenders, says that younger politicians, not Yushchenko, Tymoshenko and Yanukovych, will be the main runners in the forthcoming presidential election. Tihipko was speaking to journalists in Lviv July 2, ZIK reports. Politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:28:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/07/01/186993 “Yanukovych comments after the abortive vote on the Regions ultimatum to raise subsistence level are just nonsense. He has no moral right to offer his comments as, after so much hubbub by the Regions about the importance of raising the subsistence level, Yanukovych didn’t even come to parliament to vote for the bill. Of course, someone voted for him using his voting card. This amply shows how they treat the problems of the poor. Playing golf and tennis every day, it is so difficult to think about ordinary Ukrainians, Oleh Zarubinsky from the Lytvyn bloc told ZIK July 1. Politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:32:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/07/01/186990 A NUNS lawmaker Eduard Zejnalov says he has no plans so far to quit the coalition with BYUT pursuant to Our Ukraine congress decision passed on June 29. He says he will first discuss it with his voters, Ukrayinska Pravda reports. Politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:26:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/06/30/186795 As of June 29, a team of water utility experts from Poltava is instructing their Lviv colleagues how to make deadbeats living multi-apartment buildings pay their water bills by disconnecting them from the sewage system. Poltava experts are using a special device that travels inside the pipes. The deadbeats have an option of paying up or having their arrears restructured. Connecting their apartments to the sewage system costs about $35, the Lviv city administration site reports. Society Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:40:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/06/30/186793 As reports by police are a far cry from media coverage of the alleged involvement of Pres Yushchenko’s son in a shooting incident near the Kozachok restaurant in Kyiv, VR lawmaker Serhy Mishchenko says he is convinced the case is being silenced and its facts distorted by the law-enforcement, BYUT’s June 30 press service release runs. Politics Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:22:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/06/27/186550 The well-concerted Our Ukraine convention has confirmed the worst expectations of OU (Kyiv branch) members, says its head Mykola Martynenko, the branch press service June 27 release runs. Politics Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:42:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/06/27/186549 June 27, the Our Ukraine convention voted on Saturday to instruct its VR lawmakers to resign from the coalition and set up a new faction in VR, The Ukrayinska Pravda reports. Politics Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:16:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/06/26/186531 Until July 17, Pres Yushchenko can take a decision to dissolve Verkhovna Rada, and it will be 100% legal, Party of Regions deputy speaker Oleksandr Lavrynovych told Glavred June 26. Politics Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:51:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/06/26/186530 OU (Kyiv branch) organization has taken a decision not to attend the June 27 party convention, saying its members won’t be a crowd of extras, UNIAN reports, citing OU press service. Politics Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:16:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/06/25/186353 Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn warned politicians against cashing in on the death of Valery Olijnyk during a squabble involving a BYUT lawmaker, UNIAN quotes Lytvyn as saying on the First National TV channel June 25. Politics Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:11:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/06/25/186352 Answering a question on the state of her relationships with Pres Yushchenko, the premier said the incumbent didn’t let her implement the ideals of the Orange revolution. She would be ready to support Yushchenko for president, if their teams cooperated in a civilized way. However, over the past year it has become clear that Viktor Yushchenko has no wish to cooperate, Tymoshenko told journalists at her press conference in Lviv June 25. Politics Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:58:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/06/24/186161 No gas was siphoned off from Ukraine’s underground reservoirs. On the contrary, there are 11 bln cu. m. of gas sold by Gazprom to Ukraine. In fact, Gazprom is just short of cash to store its gas in Ukraine, says the premier’s advisor on energy issues and lawmaker Oleksa Hudyma, commenting on Gazprom’s refusal to store its gas in Ukraine’s reservoirs citing unreliable storage. Politics Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:26:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/06/24/186160 Russia Communists are skeptical about the appointment of Mykhail Zurabov, former minister for social development and health care, as Russia’s new ambassador in Ukraine. “The appointment of Mr Zurabov, the former minister who ruined the social security and health care system in Russia and a very odious person, as an ambassador in Ukraine will be viewed by the Russian and the friendly Ukrainian people as a slap in the face,” The leader of Russia Communist party declared June 24. Politics Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:36:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/06/23/185968 June 25, Ukraine’s nationalist organizations Prosvita, UNA-UNSO and others will hold a press conference titled Moscow Patriarch in Search of his Native State. One of its organizers, UNA-UNSO head and Hero of Ukraine Yury Shukhevych said, speaking to ZIK, that their goal is to protest Patriarch Kiril treating Ukraine as his home country. Politics Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:01:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/06/23/185966 I am convinced that OU convention will take a decision to quit the coalition and nominate Victor Yushchenko for president, said lawmaker and OU political board member Andry Parubij, June 23 OU press service release runs. Politics Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:24:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/06/22/185761 With Yushchenko’s blessing, Our Ukraine is bending backwards to kick Tymoshenko out of her office. The only way to attain this goal is to destroy the present coalition and provoke snap elections. However, Verkhovna Rada will hardly yield to pressure, Mykhailo Pohrebinsky of the Center for Political Research and Study of Conflicts told ZIK June 22. Politics Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:34:00 +0300 http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2009/06/22/185760 Had Our Ukraine leaders had OU lawmakers under their control, they could have made them quit the coalition with BYUT. However, OU is one of the NUNS bloc founding members and has split up. Therefore, it is unlikely that NUNS will vote to part ways with BYUT, Penta think tank Directror Volodymyr Fesenko told ZIK June 22. Politics Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:37:00 +0300