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			<title>Yanukovych opts for Borys Kolesnykov to become premier</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Speaking in the Shuster Live TV program Feb. 9, Viktor Yanukovych pointed his finger at Borys Kolesnykov as his choice for the next premier. 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Tymoshenko not to recognize Yanukovych victory</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/02/09/215977</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Addressing her faction meeting late Feb. 8, Yulia Tymoshenko decided not to recognize the victory of Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrayinska Pravda reports. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Taras Chornivil says Yekhanurov can be next premier</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/02/08/215976</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Speaking late Monday, Feb. 8 in the Shuster Live talk show, former Regions lawmaker Taras Chornovil said the next premier can be Yury Yekhanurov – if Our Ukraine joins in a coalition with the Regions. ]]></description>
			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Before counting final tally, Yuanukovych-dominated CEC declares him winner</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[According to preliminary estimates, Viktor Yanukovych has become president of Ukraine, member of the Central Electoral Commission Mykhailo Okhendovsky told journalists late Feb. 8.]]></description>
			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:34:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>More fraud in runoff, CVU warns</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Committee of Voters of Ukraine NGO says there will be much more vote-rigging in the runoff election than in the first round, its head Olexandr Chernenko told journalists in Kyiv Feb. 5, ZIK’s Kyiv correspondent reports.  ]]></description>
			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Kyiv hospitals ordered to ensure 90 percent support for Yanukovych</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Speaking on the ICTV channel Feb. 5, Yulia Tymoshenko accused the Kyiv authorities of abusing power by ordering hospitals to ensure 90 percent support for Yanukovych. ]]></description>
			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Yanukovych intimidates his opponents in Donbas, like in 1937</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/02/05/215499</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Prosecutors in Donbas are exerting unprecedented pressure on members of the Tymoshenko team. This is a large-scale intimidation campaign, reminiscent of secret police NKVD atrocities in 1937, said head of Tymoshenko campaign staff in Donbas Natalia Korolevska in her website release on Feb. 5. ]]></description>
			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>We are not convicts, CEC members tell Yushchenko</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/02/05/215498</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Central Electoral Commission members do not mind if CEC building is guarded, but they do mind that the lame duck president ordered the internal troops to guard CEC [internal troops are typically engaged to guard prisons – Ed.], deputy CEC head Andry Mahera told journalists Feb. 5, UNIAN reports. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Yanukovych not as aggressive as Tymoshenko, Petro Pysarchuk says</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Speaking live on UT-Zahid television, Regions lawmaker amd head of the Yanukovych oblast staff Petr Pysarchuk explained the lack of support given to Yanukovych in the Lviv oblast, ZIK reports Feb. 5.  ]]></description>
			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Cooperation of Yushchenko and Yanukovych is open secret</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[That the lame duck president and Viktor Yanukvych are playing ball is quite apparent. Yushchenko’s team in the Lviv oblast is disseminating leaflets urging Ukrainians to vote against all (something that favors Viktor Yanukovych very much) while the Yanukovych team has paid for their printing, deputy head of the Tymoshenko electoral staff in the Lviv oblast Andry Bolkun told journalists Feb. 5, ZIK reports. 
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			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Four NUNS lawmakers deny having voted for new election bill</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Pro-Yushchenko NUNS lawmakers Mykola Kruts and Oleksandr Klymenko have denied Feb. 4 that they voted for the new presidential election bill passed by Rada on Feb. 3, the NUNS press service says.  ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Yushchenko signed bill favoring Regions because Yanukovych is lesser evil to him than Tymoshenko</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Pres Yushchenko signed the bill changing presidential election procedures because it is no secret that a Yanukovych win is lesser evil to Yushchenko than the victory of Tymoshenko, Mykhailo Pohrebinsky told ZIK Feb. 4.  ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Contrary to court ruling, Tymoshenko threatens to call protest rally on Kyiv’s central square, Maidan</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[If Yushchenko signs a new bill changing electoral procedures Yulia Tymoshenko says she will appeal to Ukrainians to protest on the streets, she told journalists Feb. 4.  
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Yushchenko faced with dilemma whether to sign Regions-favoring bill into law – Serhy Taran</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/02/04/215308</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Feb. 3 bill passed by VR and cancelling quorums in electoral commissions was a test of a new de-facto Regions-led majority in the legislature. However, the main problem is whether Yushchenko will sign the bill into law, director of the International Institute of Democracy Serhy Taran told ZIK Feb. 4.  
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			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Ukraine in for prolonged stand-off after election, expert warns</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/02/03/215140</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Feb. 3 fistfight among Rada deputies, blockade of the rostrum, and declarations by the Regions that they will accept only victory in the runoff, demonstrate amply what kind of political confrontation will set in after the election, Vitaly Bala, director of the Agency for Modeling Situations, says. ]]></description>
			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Kuchma comes out of hiding</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/02/03/215120</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Feb. 3, ex-President Leonid Kuchma has come on a visit to Dniepropetrovsk. The purpose of his visit is to cancass for Yanukovych, Kuchma told the Novy Mist information agency. ]]></description>
			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Tymoshenko explains why Yatseniuk and Tihipko sit on fence</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/02/03/214972</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Yulia Tymoshenko believes the also-rans Yatseniuk and Tihipko refused to back her up publicly ahead of the runoff  because of their fear to lose their voters in parliamentary and local elections due soon, the BYT Feb. 2 press service report says.  ]]></description>
			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Lame duck president’s revenge on Hennady Moskal</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/02/03/214971</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Pres Yushchenko has vetoed the cabinet’s decree of Dec. 16, 2009 appointing Gen. Hennady Moskal Crimea’s police chief, UNIAN reports Feb. 2. 
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			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>37 pro-Yushchenko lawmakers ready to join coalition with Regions</title>
			<link>http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/02/03/214970</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Speaking in his Feb. 2 press conference in Lviv, Interior Minister Yury Lutsenko said 37 lawmakers from the NUNS bloc are ready to cross the floor in VR to join a coalition with Yanukovych-led Party of Regions, our correspondent reports. 
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			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Lutsenko describes how Yanukovych criminal case materials were faked
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			<description><![CDATA[ “I was really astonished by prosecutor general’s press conference where he acted as Viktor Yanukovych’s defense council,” such was the comment by acting Interior Minister Lutsenko on PG Oleksandr Medvedko declaration that Yanukovych had been twice put behind bars unlawfully. Lutsenko was addressing journalists in Lviv Feb. 2, ZIK reports.  ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
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