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1 in Ukraine the New Government Has Been KEY POINTS: IN UKRAINE THE NEW GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN FORMED. THE CRIMEA IS FULL OF ARMORED VEHICLES, PROBABLY, OF RUSSIAN ARMY. After running away of the President of Viktor Yanukovych, the new Government, headed by Arsenii Yatseniuk, whose candidate was agreed with the Council of Maidan, was formed. But people do not leave Maidan – they demand full lustration for the Verkhovna Rada, law enforcement bodies and judges. More and more corruption schemes, with the help of which the regime of the previous President Viktor Yanukovych had laundered the state money, become known. The Federation of Employers of Ukraine, controlled by a famous oligarch Dmytro Firtash, informs, that for the last years the business spent about 50% circulating assets for bribes in Ukraine. 1 In Kharkiv (the East of Ukraine) and the Crimea (the South of Ukraine) the riots are lasting. More than 10,000 Crimean Tatars came to the meeting and gave a rebuff to the pro-Russian separatists, chanting “The Crimea is Ukraine”. But in the morning on February 27 the building of the Council of Ministers and Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea were invaded by unknown armed. The armored vehicles stand near Simferopol. These vehicles roughly belong to the Russian Army. THE Revolution HAS gained A victory, BUT can WE now FIGHT THE corruption? After the victory of the Revolution, the Verkhovna Rada has adopted a number of enactments. Thus, it rehabilitated 28 political prisoners, dismissed the judges of the Constitutional Court for violation of the vow, elected Oleksandr Turchynov as a speaker of the Verkhovna Rada and Acting President, appointed a new head of the National Bank of Ukraine and dismissed previous Ministers. immediately after dispensation from imprisonment Yuliia Tymoshenko told, that she would run for the presidency. But the performance of the former opposition leader was perceived rather skeptically by Maidan, first of all because of the people’s wish to see new authorities, not involved into corrupt scandals. The Party of Regions, ruled by Viktor Yanukovych, publicly condemned his actions. The General Prosecutor’s Officeofficially declared Viktor Yanukovych wanted on suspicion in committing mass murders of the citizens of Ukraine. The former minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vitalii Zakharchenko, the Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka, and the head of the Presidential Administration Andrii Kliuiev are wanted together with Yanukovych. The activists of Maidan demolished metal fence at the Verkhovna Rada, which had become the symbol of the close former authorities. The activists of Maidan begin the series of entering the houses of high-ranking officials of the regime of Viktor Yanukovych. Ukrainians were mostly impressed by the estate of the former Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka (photos). About 30 “Berkut” officers escaped in unknown direction, and took the weapon. According to the order of the head of the police the Special Forces “Berkut” were disbanded, because the fighters were accused in excessive aggression towards the protestors. On February 25 the presidential electoral campaign started. Ukraine shall elect a new president on May 25 this year. On February 27 the Parliament of Ukraine approved the new composition of the Government , headed by the Prime Minister Arsenii Yatseniuk, who is one of the party leaders of the protests. The representatives of Maidan previously developed and proposed to the parliament the criteria of the members’ selection to the Cabinet of Ministers. The first criterion is professionalism; work experience in the sphere not less than seven years (excluding the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Security Service of Ukraine and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine), including leadership positions – not less than five years. The second criterion is non-participation in the public authorities from the beginning of 2010 on the positions of the heads of the ministries, head of the regional administrations or any other position in the Presidential Administration. The third criterion is the absence in the list of the richest people of Ukraine according to the rating of different publications. The fourth criterion is noninvolvement into violation of human rights and absence of the information on corrupt activities. 2 The approved composition of the Governmentpredominantly does not meet these criteria. The basic problems are insufficient professional experience or trail of corruption, following a few members of the Government. At the same time Euromaidan SOS informs on disappearance of 312 people. UAH continues to fall dropping from UAH 8.6 to 11.6 for USD 1 for a week. TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAI UKRAINE URGED THE NEW GOVERNMENT NOT TO REPEAT THE OLD MISTAKES The experience of the Orange Revolution in 2004 showed the failure of anticorruption efforts of the new authorities, despite the prevailing euphoria and widespread public support of its actions. And Transparency InternationaI Ukraine strongly warns – the story must not be repeated. The only hope to avoid this ruining cycle is brave, decisive and undeniable fight against corruption. The new Government shall be formed according to the criteria of transparency, avoiding the conflict of interests. For this purpose the candidates for the positions shall publish theirdeclarations on property, incomes, expenses and obligations of financial nature. The organization declares: “We offer not to invent a new unique way of anticorruption fight, but use the existing international experience and best practices of the national experts. Instead of providing the position of the deputy minister for combating corruption, it is important to concen- trate on the immediate establishment of the anticorruption body”. The full text of the official position of Transparency InternationaI Ukraine is available at:http:// ti-ukraine.org/en/news/4419.html Confrontations IN KHARKIV AND CRIMEA Euromaidan spreads to the Eastern and Southern regions of Ukraine. People are protesting against separatism, somebody is protesting for annexation. On February 24 in Kharkiv mass meetings took place; people demanded the resignation of the city mayor Hennadii Kernes and the head of Kharkiv region Mykhailo Dobkin. They were accused by the citizens in the attempt to split the territorial integrity of Ukraine. On February 24 Dobkin declared that he would Photo - facebook.com/lilya.alr run for the presidency at the elections, and on February wrote a letter on resignation. In the Crimea the events broke out harder. After a group of the fraction members of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, headed by Volodymyr Zhyrynovskyi, came in the Crimea and told that Russia has begun to issue Russian passports under the simplified procedure, mass riots started there (video). On February 26 in Simferopol about 10 thousand Crimean Tatars took all approaches to the Verkhovna Rada of the Crimea, demanding to keep the Republic within Ukraine (video). At the same time on the same square the meeting consisting of a few hundred Russian nationalists took place. The Crimean Tatars chanted “The Crimea is Ukraine” and made local deputies to refuse from 3 separatism. Then the speaker of the Parliament of the Crimea Volodymyr Kostiantynov declared that the Crimean deputies do not raise the question of withdrawal of the autonomy from Ukraine. During the confrontations 2 people died. The former Presidents of Ukraine publicly declared, that Russia had interfered in the policy of the Crimea. On February 26 it became known, that the troops of the Western military district, situated on the boundaries with Ukraine, were alerted suddenly. The officially declared aim was inspection of the forces in being. As of February 27 the Council of Ministers and Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea were invaded by unknown armed , who refused to negotiate. The Head of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Anatolii Mohyliov applied to the people of the Crimea in connection with the extreme situation in the Crimean and called on everybody to show restraint, the negotiations were continuing. Journalists informed that Russian armoured vehicles stood near Simferopol. You will recall that Russia officially rents a range of military objects in the area of Sevastopol, located on the very South of the Crimean peninsula. Among other, Russian Black Sea Fleet is situated in Sevastopol. “Any movement of Russian troops outside the territory of the base of Russian Black Sea Fleet will be regarded as military aggression”, - told the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Turchynov. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia declared that they are ready to react on the facts of violation of their fellow citizens’ rights. About 200 persons with Russian flags, chanting “Russia!” came to the Crimean Parliament. They cried that their President was Viktor Yanukovych. CORRUPTION OF Yanukovych’S Family At the residence of Viktor Yanukovych, people found valuable old-time books , which must be kept in the museum archives, among them, they found the first printed Ukrainian book “Apostol”. The journalists are working on the founded in Mezhyhiria documents, which were caught in Dnipro. For this purpose the journalists created the special website www. yanukovychleaks.org, where they had already published the first 500 documents. The European Parliament informed, that it could freeze the assets of Yanukovych, if the evidence would be found. Transparency International UK called on the British Government to create the corresponding interdepartmental group concerning Ukrainian assets. In the office of the Party of Region in the Transcarpathian, people found the seal of electoral districts after the presidential election in 2010; it confirmed the fact that falsification of the election, when Viktor Yanukovych had won, took place. CIVIC anticorruption movement Citizens of Ukraine and businessmen began mass protesting meetings against corruption and refused to pay bribes. All over the country the examples of businessmen’s initiatives became known, 4 when they refused as an ultimatum to pay already usual bribes to the customs officers and other state authorities, threatening them to write the statement to the law enforcement bodies.
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