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			<title>Tabachnyk explains why he won’t resign</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[“It is no good to betray my voters by resigning,” Tabachnyk said. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Appointment of Tabachnyk aimed to distract attention from lack of reforms</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/03/15/220721</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[By resorting to high-profile actions, like the appointment of controversial  Dmytro Tabachnyk as education minister, the Yanukovych regime wants to distract the attention of Ukrainians from real problems, head of the Center for Strategic Initiatives Volodymyr Stus told journalists March 15. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title> New cabinet formed by Azarov, not Yanukovych, says Kost Bondarenko</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/03/11/220292</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[The cabinet created today is the cabinet of Mykola Azarov, not Yanukovych. It indicates a growing competition of Azarov with the presidential administration likely to breed future conflicts, expert Kost Bondarenko told ZIK March 11. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Baloha: Regions bent constitution by voting for new coalition-forming procedure</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/03/11/220289</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Voting for the new coalition-forming procedure was a litmus test for Rada lawmakers, The Delo quotes Viktor Baloha as saying March 11. 
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Unperturbed, Yushchenko praises his track record</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/03/10/220088</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[I’m quite satisfied with what I did over my tenure as president because my key task was to reinstate dignity to the nation, former Pres Yushchenko said in Lviv March 10, commenting on the results of a social survey that gave his presidency a failing grade, ZIK reports. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Yanukovych offers Yatseniuk high-ranking post in future cabinet.
Yatseniuk turns offer down, joins opposition</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/03/09/219934</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[During his meeting today with Arseny Yatseniuk, Pres Yanukovych offered him a high-ranking post in the future cabinet, UNIAN reports March 9. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>No funding for snap elections, Yanukovych says</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/03/08/219745</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Speaking to the ICTV talk show audience March 7, Pres Yanukovych said there is no funding for pre-term parliamentary elections in the budget. “We have to develop our economy. We have to overcome the recession triggered off by the preceding cabinet and world economic crisis,” he said ]]></description>
			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Anatoly Hrytsenko says Yanukovych should dissolve Rada</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Former presidential candidate and head of Rada committee for national security and defense Anatoly Hrytsenko says Pres Yanukovych should disband parliament and call pre-term elections, MIGnews reports March 7.  
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Constitution is not written in stone,Yanukovych warns</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/03/07/219739</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Pres Viktor Yanukovych opts for changing the Constitution &quot;to upgrade the system of government,&quot; UNIAN quotes him as saying late Feb. 7 while being interviewed by Inter TV. 
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Yatseniuk writes open letter to Yanukovych</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/03/07/219735</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[In his letter, Arseny Yatseniuk has proposed to create a temporary parliamentary coalition to prepare for pre-term parliamentary elections, UNIAN reports late March 7. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Oleh Dubyna: Yushchenko and RUE guilty of 20-day gas spat with Russia in 2008
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			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/03/06/219714</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ex-head of NaftoHaz Ukrayiny Oleh Dubyna says in his interview with Dzerkalo Tyzhnya that former Pres Yushchenko and corrupt RosUkrEnergo middleman company were to blame for a 20-day stand-off with Russia over gas supplies, UNIAN reports March 6. 
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			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Yushchenko: Yanukovych has defied millions of Ukrainians</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The promise by Yanukovych given in Moscow to strip Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych of their Hero of Ukraine medals [awarded by Yushchenko] is a sell-out of Ukraine national interests, former Pres Yushchenko believes, a March 6 statement on Our Ukraine website runs.  
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			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Tymoshenko accuses Yanukovych of bending Constitution</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Speaking late March 5 in the Shuster Live talk show, Yulia Tymoshenko charged Pres Viktor Yanukovych with bending the Constitution, ZIK reports. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Azarov to become new premier, all other candidates taken for a ride by Yanukovych</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ “[If Regions manage to form a majority coalition and cabinet] its next premier will be Regions’ Mykola Azarov. Yanukovych just took all other candidates for a ride,” acting Premier  Yulia Tymoshenko said, speaking in the Shuster Live talk show late March 5. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Tihipko: Regions idea to form majority out of individual lawmakers is political piracy</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The attempt by the Party of Regions to change the coalition-forming procedure is political piracy, says SerhyTihipko, speaking live on the TBi channel March 5. 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Pro-Yanukovych lawmakers wipe feet on Constitution</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/03/05/219598</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ukraine Constitution says a ruling majority can be formed only by factions, not individual lawmakers. March 4, Party of Regions-dominated Verkhovna Rada passed the first reading of the law allowing separate lawmakers to form a majority, despite the earlier Constitutional Court ruling to the contrary. This is viewed by many as a constitutional coup d’etate. Why should Yanukovych start his rule by wiping his feet on the main law of the land? The only lawful option is to call the early parliamentary elections, UNIAN’s Masha Mishchenko quotes experts as saying. 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Yanukovych loath to back up Yushchenko for premier</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/03/04/219511</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[According to a source in Verkhovna Rada, Viktor Yanukovych refused to back up former president Yushchenko for premier, UNIAN reports March 4. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>March 5 Moscow visit is acid test for Yanukovych patriotism</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/03/04/219510</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[During Pres Yanukovych’s visit to Moscow on Friday it will be clear whether he is a Kremlin’s puppet or a statesman ready to stand by Ukraine’s interests, Oleksandr Palij from the Institute of Foreign Policy told ZIK March 4. ]]></description>
			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Yury Lutsenko: Yushchenko should better give up hopes to get a high-level job</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/03/03/219317</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Lutsenko-led Self-Defense NGO, part of the NUNS bloc, says it will not support Viktor Yushchenko for premier, UNIAN reports March 3. 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Next premier to hail from Regions, Azarov believes</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/03/03/219300</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Speaking to journalists in VR in the wake of Tymoshenko cabinet dismissal March 3, Mykola Azarov said the next premier will be a Regions member. 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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