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Sunday, September 30, 2007
The voting is closed. A look at the exit poll results.
The Ukrainian National election for their Parliament:
Comparison of tonight's exit poll results and the predictions on this blog one week ago.
Last week the professionals were giving the Prime Minister's party about 33% of the vote and Yula Tymoshenko's
party about 20%
The blog's prediction was Yulia Tymoshenko would take enough votes from the Prime Minister's
party to have a strong second place.
Exit polls say Prime Minister's party 35.2% and Yula Tymoshenko's
party 31.5% Close enough so far. I was thinking about a 5 - 6% spread favor the Prime Minister.
The blog predicted
that the President's party would take his party into a coalition with Tymoshenko's party. He did that about a day before
the vote started. Remember, he had fired the lady when she was Prime Minister.
The blog boldly predicted that
the communists would bomb and not gain the 3% minimum vote to enter the Rada. The blog bombed with the exit polls showing
5.1% for the communists.
The blog predicted fraud. Nothing enlightened there. Yula Tymoshenko is already challenging
the vote in various places.
So it's not over. The vote count has started even now in Ukraine and the
issues of fraud will have to be settled.
We will post about this again when the official vote is in which might
take several days.
9:02 pm cdt
Sunday, September 23, 2007
One Week to Elections in Ukraine
Elections in Ukraine
One Week Away September
30, 2007, Ukrainians vote for a new Supreme Rada – the national parliament.
The experts say it’s too close to call, citing
these possibilities: The Prime Minister’s party might maintain
a majority to control the institution. Yula Tymoshenko,
the star of the Orange Revolution, might come close enough to enter a controlling collation. The President’s party will have to enter a coalition. The communists may take at least 3% of the seats. My prediction: Yula Tymoshenko will take enough votes from
the Prime Minister’s party to have a strong second place. The
President will take his party into coalition with Tymoshenko’s party and that will make her Prime Minister. This will put Yula Tymoshenko in a strong position to challenge the
President for that position in the 2009 election. The communists will
bomb and not gain enough votes to enter the Rada. Three percent of the votes are required to gain entrance. Watch Yula Tymoshenko: She
is reaching out to the west with a strong public relations campaign. Her
recent visit to the United States was successful
and well publicized. She recently visited the “Iron Lady”,
former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. She has a web site
that can be read in English. She is campaigning hard in eastern Ukraine, the stronghold of the Prime Minister and she will
take votes from him. A footnote: The outcome of this election is very important for Ukraine. There will be fraud. Order a copy of Conscience Calls from volunteer-author Roksolana Tymiak-Lonchyna.
She and her husband were monitors for the 2004 election and her book is about that. The Lonchynas will be back once again
for this one. I will post again after the results are in.
Let’s see what happens! David
Monday, September 17, 2007
Non Political Blog from the Kyiv Street
Michelle Knisley Blogs from Kyiv About Michelle: Michelle is a missionary serving with CrossRoads
Foundation. They minister to street children. This introduces her personal blog and her comments from Kyiv and the perspective
are hers and do not represent the ministries she works with. “GREETINGS FROM KYIV A JOURNAL OF MISSIONARYLIFE IN UKRAINE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2007 Ignoring the Election In case anyone is reading this
blog and is not aware of what is happening in Ukrainian politics, Ukraine is getting ready for another parliamentary election this end of this month. And let me just state
up front, that if you are looking for hard core political commentary on the latest news, then you would do better to read
someone else’s blog. I have some great political blogs listed on my blogroll you can check out if you want the serious
stuff. Consider my blog, the layman’s, foreigner, ex-pat, orf cliff note pop culture version of anything that might
happen in this country over the next few weeks. My first impulse regarding the election…..” To follow Michelle’s thoughts and view from the street click here http://www.greetings-from-ukraine.blogspot.com Be sure to save it for your
records. We hope to follow Michelle’s blog from time to time. The election is now just two weeks off, September 30, 2007!
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Yulia Tymoshenko
Prominent Ukrainian Politician opens English Website
Yulia Tymoshenko has opened an English website www.ibyut.com. This is an interesting development in international public relations. BYuT means Bloc (party) of Yulia Tymoshenko. As the
electon approaches - September 30 - the BYuT site might be something worth following.
David
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Russia Does Not Want To Give Yanukovich Unreserved Support
Kiev Ukraine News
Blog; Saturday, September 08, 2007
“Russia Does Not Want To Give Yanukovich Unreserved Support”
“MOSCOW, Russia - - All recent presidential elections in Ukraine have shown that the nation is split into the West, East and South.”
Here is a plain spoken explanation of the political situation in Ukraine as the nation approaches the September 30 election. The article does
not contain unnecessary and complicating details and explanations. It is straight forward.
Read the Kiev Ukraine News Blog at http://blog.kievukraine.info for this excellent coverage.
David
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Forum, No-Borders dot eu
Forum, No-Borders dot eu The following is an email to the members of this newly forming forum. Take a look, it’s an
interesting place and easy to sign up. Look at the mission statement there to see if it fits with your agenda. The site is
primarily designed for Europeans to exchange views and information about things European but they let me in under the “overseas”
category. I’m about a week old there but already have had emails about a subject of interest to me. So – it might
work for you! www.no-borders.eu is the site but you might want to read the email that the founders just sent, today! The address will
be repeated at the bottom of the email. Cheers, David
(USA :-) Dear member, We would like to thank you for being one of the pioneers on this site! We are very happy to announce that
the basic features of the site are already up and running. Nevertheless we feel the need to tell you more about this project! About the philosophy
of the site, take a look at the forum, which has already become active and members have submitted some posts. Some posts
on the forum are very informative. For more information about what we have in mind, you can read the "Why be a member",
"Mission" and "Volunteer" pages accessible either from the main page, or from the No-Borders menu visible
almost on every page inside the site. We asked for memberships before even launching the site to be able to trace deficiencies.
Many of them have been traced and we work on making the site even better!
We haven’t yet uploaded the founders
page as advertising ourselves is not a priority :), but it will be done shortly...
We dream of a site with no power/political
hierarchy... all members will be equal...
We dream of it as a pan-European arena of political discussion though,
and we would like to boost mutual understanding and knowledge among the people of Europe.
Transparency and security are
main pillars of our development strategy. In no case this site is supposed to be used as a dating site. As problems
have occurred from this very early stage we are working even harder to develop a security policy to avoid unhappy situations.
Please login
on the site, update your profile and in case your photo doesn't show correctly, try to upload a smaller one. A full and
knit profile will be more popular, more communicative and it will make our site even more attractive. Also feel free to invite
your friends if you think they would be interested in this site. An "Invite your friends" page will also be up soon... Finally, browse
through the menus and try all the options. Although some are still inactive most of them do work! Search for members (Community
menu -> Find Profile) and contact them by internal message (by clicking on the "Send me an e/n-b message" link
on their profile)! Post your thoughts on the forum... Participate! Welcome people of Europe No-Borders. Best regards from Greece, Paris Tsachouridis
(E/N-B founders team) www.no-borders.eu
Monday, September 3, 2007
Action Ukraine Report - Recommended
Your Editor Recommends:
For those familiar with and not so familiar with Ukraine the following report is recommended. For those of us not so familiar with Ukraine we will need to follow the Action Ukraine Report – AUR for some time to begin acquiring
an understanding of the issues facing our friends, the Ukrainians.
ukraineorphans.net receives this report about Ukraine – through the editor’s email.
"If
you would like to read the Ukraine Action Report – UAR, around three times a week, please send your
name, country of residence, and email contact information to morganw@patriot.net. Information about your occupation and your interest in Ukraine is also appreciated."
Short and Partial list of the latest articles (David)
ACTION UKRAINE
REPORT - AUR
An International
Newsletter, The Latest, Up-To-Date
In-Depth Ukrainian News, Analysis and Commentary
Ukrainian History, Culture, Arts, Business, Religion,
Sports, Government, and Politics, in Ukraine and
Around the World
ACTION UKRAINE REPORT - AUR - Number 862 Mr.
E. Morgan Williams, Publisher and Editor, SigmaBleyzer WASHINGTON, D.C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2007
INDEX OF ARTICLES ------
Clicking on the
title of any article takes you directly to the article. Return to Index by clicking on Return to Index at
the end of each article
1. DEMOCRACY IN FULL THROTTLE AS UKRAINE CELEBRATES
ANALYSIS: By Viktor A Yushchenko
Kuwait Times, Safat, Kuwait, Saturday, August 25, 2007
2. UKRAINE IS 16: LESSONS LEARNT AND PROSPECTS
ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY: Ludmila SHANGINA
Mirror-Weekly #31 (660), Kyiv, Ukraine,
24-31 August 2007
3. UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE: EASY COME, EASY GO
ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY: By John Marone
Kyiv Post Staff Journalist, Kyiv, Ukraine
Eurasian Home, Moscow, Russia,
Wed, August 22, 2007
4. ENDING 16 YEARS OF APATHY EDITORIAL, Kyiv Post, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug 22 2007
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Posted by Stryi Gymnasium, Ukraine
Laws of Live
Dana Shumanska
age 16 January 2004
Life – is a gift from God, which is given to people only once. It always has the beginning and has
the end. Some people say that it’s like dream, but we are sure that this is a great chance for everyone to do his mission
in the world and to show himself. To my mind everyone understands life in different ways. And we can not condemn them.
Life
is a very private thing, because everyone has his inner world and lives in it too. I think that only a man must be the master
of his life. But this gift as far as I’ve mentioned is from God and any time God can take this present back from us.
So we must live due to some principles, due to some rules.
I think these laws have already been set
by God and are called Ten Commandments, They are based on the faith in God, but contain also laws concerning relations between
people: do not kill, do no steal, respect your parents and so on. And after realizing all these laws we understand that we
have some restrictions and after death we will be punished for violating them.
Some religions say
that there is one more rule; our children will be punished for our sins. People should be responsible for their actions. They
should not think only about themselves, some people are very egoistic. This way God makes people think about future generations.
I think we should value the life, value the great chances, given by destiny. We should be decent,
through maybe our destiny depends on our ancestor’s actions. I’m sure that people should be respectable, helpful,
thankful to everyone who helps them and of course kind and generous. If everyone were kind our world would become
a very pleasant place to live.
Dana Shumanska
16 years old
This essay was published on the web in 2003 as part of a collection by Ukrainian high school (gymnasium)
students. Most were in Ukrainian but several noteworthy examples were in English under the sponsorship of Stryi Gymnasium
English teacher, Halina Stetsko, an internationally recognized teacher of English as a second language.
I
well remember grappling with Dana’s difficult subject at the same age but did not achieve her level of understanding.
When reading her concluding sentence I exclaimed, “She’s got it! She nailed it!” (Bolding is mine.)
Just
as “please” and “you are welcome” are stated in Ukrainian as bud’ laska, literally, “let
there be kindness”, I propose that we attach “let there be friendship” and move forward in kindness and
friendship with ukraineorphans.net
David Cottrell, 2007
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