tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086033.post3190333361364960196..comments2023-11-05T13:07:03.784+02:00Comments on foreign notes: Gloomy assessment for 2012Scott W. Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04047386631227542689noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086033.post-27943958175641849572012-01-10T08:07:40.246+02:002012-01-10T08:07:40.246+02:00If Yushchenko had not betrayed Ukraine and opposed...If Yushchenko had not betrayed Ukraine and opposed Ukraine becoming a true democracy, Ukraine would not be in the position it is in today.<br /><br />If the opposition can win the parliament they will still not be control. They will still be divided without direction or solutions. <br /><br />The momentum of the revolving door will continue to spin like a ship without a rudder or an engine caught in a whirlpool and a storm as it is thrown onto the rocks. <br /><br />If Ukraine wants to be a free independent democratic state it needs to adopt European values and European models of governance. It needs to follow in the foot steps of Estonia and Latvia and adopt a full Parliamentary system of government. Failing that there will be no change of fate or fortune.<br /><br />Until then 2012-14 offers Ukraine little comfort or hope.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086033.post-23072801059545525202012-01-10T07:40:29.593+02:002012-01-10T07:40:29.593+02:00If the opposition wins the October Parliamentary (...If the opposition wins the October Parliamentary (Unlikely given that the new electoral system is already working against them) then what?<br /><br />The orange revolution achieved one major change and shift towards becoming a true democratic state. And that was the Constitutional amendments. Amendments that were in the right direction but did not go far enough. <br /><br />Yanukovych has removed those democratic changes and is heading in the wrong direction in the endless "tug of war' of power, dragging the opposition with them. <br /><br />The power struggle continues. <br /><br />The President holds all the trump cards. The opposition has no policies for constitutional change and the games of division continue. <br /><br />The only change is the faces in the revolving door that take turns in endless rotation.<br /><br />Until Ukraine changes the system of governance and adopts a democratic Parliamentary representative system it will continue to be trapped in the abyss of time.<br /><br />Democratic resolution denied.UkrTodayhttp://ukrainetoday.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086033.post-39816071710497761512012-01-10T05:53:43.201+02:002012-01-10T05:53:43.201+02:00For me it is clear that post-Soviet system of gove...<i>For me it is clear that post-Soviet system of governance and social division has exhausted itself - and not only in Ukraine</i><br /><br />A good report and fair analysis. <br /><br />Ukraine was on the right track be it slowed down to a grinding halt by the conductor, Yushchenko only later to back up in reverse and tale a wrong turn down the wrong track heading in the wrong direction. <br /><br />The constitutional changes that were enacting in 2004 were a major step forward. Remove presidential power, and invest more control in the Parliament and reform it. <br /><br />Problem is the opposition have no policy for any change they are remaining passengers trapped in a state of dominance by the presidential authorities. They have abandoned the principles that would have seen Ukraine become a true democracy. Like rabbits at night in a hunters spot light they just stop and stare waiting the sting of to hunters bullet.<br /><br />With all the excitments of the football fair, major economic crirs on their doorstep and persecution of anyone who challenges the ruling elite it is hard to see what of any change will occur. <br /><br />Minor parties will denied representation. Our Ukraine will cease to be. No longer able to impose a policy of division. Lytvyn block will have to decide whose side it is on as they will not survive on their own. The government will be consolidate its position given an advantage by election rules that the opposition allowed. Better the devil you know then the instability of of more division. <br /><br />Ukraine has been denied the chance and rights to become a free independent state<br /><br />Like slaves in a galley as long as it remains shackled to the soviet/US presidential system it will never be free independent or democratic. <br /><br />Other former soviet states such as Estonia and Latvia abandoned the repressive soviet presidential system and embraced a modern European parliamentary governance. Ukraine had less than one year of democracy (between 2006 and 2007) before it was sailed into the rocks.<br /><br />Now it is heading back to the abyss, chained to the orrs and told to row, row as hard as they can back to avoid the pending storm. Problem is they are sailing into deeper water where the storm will hit hardest with no sign of any change in the weather let alone direction. <br /><br />There is no point in another revolution unless there is a clear policy of change. Change that will remove presidential authority and embrace democratic governance.<br /><br />Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them. <br /><br />I would not hold my breath that the 2012 elections will deliver a change of government. As long as absolute power remains with the President and the opposition undecided there will be no peace. <br /><br />Like Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine will have to continue to endure persecution, imprisonment and presidential autocratic rule.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086033.post-18718562323858641332012-01-10T00:12:00.963+02:002012-01-10T00:12:00.963+02:00And she doesn't have any servants, her husband...And she doesn't have any servants, her husband taking the upper hand in looking after the children.55Northnoreply@blogger.com