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Analyses | | Tadeusz A Olszański
In the short term, the bringing of charges against the former President of Ukraine, in connection with the abduction in 2000 of the well-known journalist Georgiy Gongadze, is intended to give a boost to the image of Ukraine’s current…
OSW Commentary | | Tadeusz A Olszański
In recent months in Ukraine, there has been a toughening of measures targeted at opposition leaders, in particular the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the former interior minister Yuri Lutsenko. These two have been charged with…
Analyses | | Tadeusz A Olszański
From the early results of Ukraine’s communal elections, it appears that the Party of Regions has taken control over the local government authorities of most regions and big cities, thus ending the process of monopolising power in the…
Analyses | | Tadeusz A Olszański
There is no doubt that the Constitutional Court’s ruling was made in the interest of President Viktor Yanukovych. The ruling restores the president’s superiority in the political system, as it weakens the government and parliament alike…
OSW Commentary | | Tadeusz A Olszański
The Party of Regions is planning to take another step towards total power during the local elections scheduled for October 2010. The party is determined to establish control over the local self-governments; to this end, it has amended the…
Analyses | | Tadeusz A Olszański, Paweł Wołowski
The new government is moving towards taking control over the informational sphere and the mass media. Meanwhile the opposition, which is divided internally and lacks a plan of action, has shown itself incapable of resisting the government…
OSW Studies | | Tadeusz A Olszański
 As expected, parliamentary elections were a major success for the centrist-rightist coalition focused around former Prime Minister Viktor Yuschenko. The communists emerged significantly weaker from the vote, and the "party of power"…
OSW Studies | | Tadeusz A Olszański
The dominant force in Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada, elected in March 2002, are the deputies of "One Ukraine", a fraction of the pro-presidential centre. "One Ukraine" has refused to admit any of the opposition's representatives (either from…
OSW Studies | | Tadeusz A Olszański
Among all of the countries that border Ukraine, the Russian Federation is its most important partner. Ukraine·s relations with Moscow are the key issue of its foreign policy to such an extent that each option of the Ukrainian foreign…