As the cabinet failed to agree it with the president, the incumbent banned governors to go to a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, June 11, Roman Bezsmertny, deputy head of Yushchenko's secretariat, announced.

Yury Boot, one of the defectors, was not nominated by his party for People's Self-Defense shoo-in part of the roster, lawmaker Oleh Novikov from "Forward, Ukraine." That leaves only three persons who could have included Boot in the roster -

The United Center party, UC, has no plans to lock horns with other political parties and officials because it wants to introduce new standards to local politics," the newly elected head of the Ivano-Frankivsk UC branch, Pavlo Andrusiak, told ZIK

Hectic construction is under way in the Carpathian Mountains at the border between Lviv and Zakarpattya oblasts to complete the monument to Karpatska Sich, a self-proclaimed Ukrainian state in the region, fighters who died in a tragic episode on March

Given such a hazy situation in VR, the vote by NUNS lawmaker Pliushch may cost $200 million or $400-600 million. He can tread on any turf, siding either with Yanukovych or the democratic coalition," VR lawmaker Oleksa Hudyma (BYUT) said

Taras Stetskiv, a NUNS lawmaker, does not know how Yury Boot who recendly defected from the faction was included in the party roster and was elected to VR. He cannot say who must take the blame for this, Yury Lutsenko

According to Lviv-based political expert Anatoly Romaniuk, the defection of 2 lawmakers indicates the collapse of the coalition as the majority of 226 deputies is needed. Under the circumstances, the president may demand that the coalition has one month to

Yushchenko won't ask Medvedev for help in the next presidential election in Ukraine. For Yushchenko, NATO, fast-track European integration and the language issue are of the highest priority. Yushchenko thinks himself to be a messiah destined to make a "Ukrainian

The defection of 2 lawmakers from the razor-thin ruling coalition, Ihor Rybakov (BYUT) and Yury Boot (NUNS), won't change the rules of the game by which it will play. Under the constitution, the ruling coalition is based on the unification

Although 2 lawmakers, Ihor Rybakov (BYUT) and Yury Boot (NUNS) resigned from the ruling coalition, legally it continues to exist because they do not defect from their factions as, otherwise, their mandates would be cancelled. That is why the coalition

We have put forward a new candidate to head the State Property Fund, Andry Kozhemyakin. He is deputy head of BYUT faction and a one-time deputy to Oleksandr Turchynov during his watch in SBU," VR lawmaker Stepan Kurpil told ZIK

There is a massive defection of members from the Party of Regions in the Lviv oblast, former Lviv oblast PoR press secretary Yury Kril told ZIK in an interview.

Ukraine Health Ministry says it is important to resume the vaccination against rubella and measles that was stopped May 17 after a 17-year old boy died following the inoculation, deputy Health Minister Valery Bidnyj said, speaking in a June 5

June 2, Shevchenko rayon court in Lviv supported charges of corruption against Lviv city council secretary Volodymyr Kvurt. The charges were brought by Lviv oblast secret service which said V. Kvart was receiving official pay while on a private trip

There were 4 operational failures of equipment in May and 2 in the last week at Ukraine's NPPs, with no one leading to radiation leaks. May 8 and May 21 failures occurred at the Pivdennoukrayinska NPP, May 29 at the

Addressing a session of the Lviv oblast council June 4, Svoboda's Olexy Kajda made public a petition to Pres Yushchenko, National Defense and Security Council and Prosecutor General's Office demanding protection for the Ukrainian patriotic children's camp Druzhba whose work

Verkhovna Rada did not support the bill denouncing a treaty between the government of the USSR and the Republic of Cyprus on preventing double taxation of property and incomes. Only 223 lawmakers of the ruling coalition backed the bill.

This is not the first threat emanating from Russia. But this one is the most ridiculous [Duma's proposal to Russia president and government to withdraw from the treaty of friendship and cooperation with Ukraine if Kyiv goes ahead with its

I started my tenure in Ukraine after the 2006 parliamentary elections, and then it seemed to me that Ukraine would live for several years without any elections. Then came the early elections in 2007 and this year the elections in