organization:radical party

  • Thousands protest voting fraud in Kryvyi Rih, call for uprising
    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/thousands-protest-over-voting-fraud-in-kryvyi-rih-call-for-uprising-402616

    About 5,000 demonstrators attended a protest rally on Nov. 22 against alleged voting fraud in the Nov. 15 mayoral run-off election in the city of Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

    The mood at the rally was tense, with speakers calling for an uprising, saying that they feel the authorities are ignoring both the law and their demands.

    According to the official results of the mayoral election, incumbent Mayor Yury Vilkul, a former associate of disgraced ex-President Viktor Yanukovych, won with 49.25 percent, while Yury Milobog from the pro-European Samopomich Party got 48.83 percent – a difference of a mere 752 votes. Milobog argues that the vote was rigged and is calling for a recount.

    Early on Nov. 22, a Dnipropetrovsk court rejected all of Milobog’s complaints, triggering a backlash from his supporters.
    […]
    [Samopomich MPs Yegor] Sobolev demanded that members of Kryvyi Rih’s election commission be replaced with more “principled” people.

    Representatives of the Radical Party, Batkyvshchyna, Petro Poroshenko Bloc and People’s Front at the commission, which is dominated by Vilkul’s representatives, had consistently supported Vilkul. Critics say the parties’ local branches have sold out to him.

  • Ukraine’s Eurovision star quits parliament - read on - uatoday.tv
    http://uatoday.tv/politics/ukraine-s-eurovision-star-quits-parliament-530991.html

    Zlata Ognevich decides to step down as an MP

    Zlata Ohnevich, a Ukrainian singer and a Radical Party MP, has left Ukraine’s parliament.

    I came to the parliament neither for a deputy’s mandate, nor for any privileges. I came as a citizen who saw a new path for Ukraine. And now I see that when there is no culture, it’s much easier to control and manipulate the people,” Ognevich said on Tuesday at a Verkhovna Rada’s session.

    That’s why under such circumstances I, as a cultural activist, see no use of staying in this parliament, I just see the constant carving-up of political power…” she added.

  • Shuster’s political show cut off air, raising free-speech concerns once more
    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/top-political-show-cut-off-air-triggers-parallels-to-yanukovych-era-questi

    Ukraine’s top political talk show Shuster Live was cut off the air on Ukraine’s leading Channel 1+1 right before the program was supposed to start.

    The controversial decision of the channel’s administration has received a strident backlash from Savic Shuster, the show’s host, who compared the situation to late November 2013, when his show was canceled during President Viktor Yanukovych’s authoritative rule that ended on Feb. 22, 2014, with the EuroMaidan Revolution.

    This is an insult against the people, to say the least,” Shuster said. “I think this is an agreement between the owner (oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky) of Channel 1+1 and the president’s administration. I don’t know on what grounds and, more so, for what reasons.

    The Kyiv Post is still waiting for a response from the president’s spokesperson.

    Instead of the show, Channel 1+1 showed Zimniy Vals (Winter Waltz), a Russian melodrama TV series.

    This is like Swan Lake in 1991,” Shuster said, reminding of the attempt of censorship control during the collapse of the Soviet Union, where the Soviet Communist Party wanted to take one last chance of restoring authoritarian control. The ballet Swan Lake was shown on television instead of the heated events in Moscow.
    […]
    Shuster Live, however, was broadcast at www.3s.tv, the show’s official website, and then, soon after being canceled on Channel 1+1, on channel 112.

    During the show Shuster received a letter from Oleksandr Tkachenko, the general director of Channel 1+1, mentioning that Sushter Live does not have the right to broadcast the show on another channel, since it was not in the license agreement.

    We did not have in our agreement that you could broadcast us as you wish, and like some kind of trash, throw us from left to right,” Shuster replied. “Tkachenko, you of course are a colleague journalist but I am not your slave, I am not some sort of shit in your hands. Look into the mirror more often – maybe you will see more truth there.
    […]
    Lyashko believes that the channel was pressured by the president’s administration because of his presence at the show. Lyashko was planning to defend Ihor Mosiychuk, a Radical Party member who was controversially stripped of immunity and arrested on Sept. 17 during a parliament session.

    He said that the decision to cancel the program was a result of a deal between Poroshenko and Kolomoiskiy.

    An oligarch will go to the president, find an agreement, the president will give a command, and the oligarch closes down the program,” Lyashko said.

  • Ukraine Radical Party Quits Ruling Coalition After Deadly Clash - Bloomberg Business
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-01/ukraine-radical-party-quits-ruling-coalition-after-deadly-clash

    Ukraine’s Radical Party quit the ruling coalition following a vote on constitutional changes aimed at giving more autonomy to areas held by pro-Russian seperatists triggered deadly clashes outside parliament.
    The Radical Party’s departure reduced the government’s majority in parliament by 21 seats to 281, leaving the remaining four factions short of the 300 two-thirds majority needed to approve constitutional amendments. Radical Party member Valeriy Voshchevskyi also resigned from his post as deputy prime minister.

    Malgré les déclarations optimistes de Porochenko, la coalition au pouvoir part le Parti Radical d’Oleh Lyachko. Il ne dispose plus de la majorité qualifiée pour modifier la constitution.

  • Un mort et de nombreux policiers blessés devant le Parlement ukrainien
    http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2015/08/31/forte-explosion-devant-le-parlement-ukrainien-apres-le-vote-d-une-reforme-co

    Au moins quatre-vingt-dix policiers ont été blessés par une explosion devant le Parlement ukrainien, à Kiev, lundi 31 août. Arsen Avakov, le ministre de l’intérieur de l’Ukraine, a annoncé qu’un des policiers était mort, après avoir reçu un fragment d’un engin explosif dans le cœur. La déflagration a eu lieu alors que des affrontements avaient lieu entre la police et des manifestants, qui protestaient contre l’adoption en première lecture par les députés d’un projet de loi controversé donnant davantage d’autonomie aux territoires de l’Est prorusse.

  • Fight cuts short ​March 3 session of parliament
    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/fight-interrupts-march-3-session-of-parliament-382504.html

    Despite a busy agenda planned for March 3, members of Ukraine’s Parliament still found time to fight. The session was interrupted and closed because of a fight that broke out between Radical Party leader Oleh Lyashko and former member of his faction, lawmaker Serhiy Melnychuk, who used to head the Aidar Battalion.

    Ça faisait longtemps… Cette fois, la bagarre est entre Oleh Lyashko / Oleg Liachko, chef du Parti radical et son ancien numéro 3 sur sa liste nationale Serhiy Melnychuk / Sergueï Melnitchouk, commandant du bataillon Aïdar.
    C’est au bataillon Aïdar, financé par Ihor Kolomoyskyi / Igor Kolomoïski, qu’appartient Nadia Savtchenko, ancienne du détachement ukrainien en Irak, première femme pilote ukrainienne, prisonnière — en grève de la fin — en Russie et élue (tête de liste du parti de I. Timochenko) en octobre 2014 au parlement.

  • Poroshenko Bloc, candidates tied to Yanukovych may dominate new parliament
    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/next-parliament-expected-to-be-less-stable-even-if-dominated-by-poroshenko

    According to a poll conducted by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation on Sept. 12-21, 26.9 of those who are planning to vote will choose the Poroshenko Bloc, while Oleh Lyashko’s populist Radical Party was the runner-up with 6.2 percent and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna got 5.5 percent.

    Former Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko’s Civil Position, the People’s Front and the nationalist Svoboda party are expected to get 4.6 percent, 3.9 percent and 3.3 percent, respectively. Outsiders included the Communist Party with 3 percent, Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitshchko’s UDAR with 2.8 percent, former Deputy Prime Minister Sergiy Tigipko’s Strong Ukraine with 2.8 percent and Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy’s Samopomich with 1.7 percent.

    UDAR will participate in the election as part of the Poroshenko Bloc.
    Berezovets said that the Poroshenko Bloc was likely to control close to half of the next parliament.

    Pas de gros changements par rapport au sondage d’il y a 15 jours pour la partie proportionnelle. http://seenthis.net/messages/295011

    L’extrême droite reste stable, avec une petite progression de Svoboda au détriment de O. Lyachko. Les résultats ne sont pas très compréhensibles pour l’UDAR de Klitchko, normalement membre du Bloc Porochenko et dont l’estimation n’était pas fournie indépendamment lors du dernier sondage.

    L’article suggère que les circonscriptions uninominales à un tour donnent une meilleure chance aux députés « d’ancien régime » de se faire réélire. Et prédit une chambre instable et ingouvernable…

    Et je n’ai pas trouvé le document sur le site du SOCIS…

  • IT pioneer announces candidacy for parliament with holistic vision for army and economy
    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/it-pioneer-announces-candidacy-for-parliament-with-holistic-vision-for-arm

    The prominent founder of a popular domain name registrar and website hosting company told the Kyiv Post he is running for a seat in parliament as an independent candidate. The information technology pioneer, Oleksandr Olshanskiy, didn’t specify in which of the 225 single-mandate races he would run. Initially, he said he expected to get elected under the UDAR party ticket led by Kyiv mayor and retired boxing champion Vitaliy Klitschko, according to a Sept. 11 interview with the Kyiv Post. 

    Olshanskiy’s announcement comes on the heels of other visible technology business professionals joining politics. Among them are the former head of Microsoft Ukraine Dmytro Shymkiv, who in July became the deputy head of President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, and Viktor Galasyuk, who recently became an economic adviser to Radical Party leader Oleh Lyashko after heading the Bionic Hill innovation park project.

    In addition to them, the CEO and founder of Ukrainian outsourcing software developer ELEKS, Oleksii Skrypnyk, together with entrepreneur and co-founder of Invisible CRM Vlad Voskresenskiy, are parliamentary candidates in Lviv mayor Andriy Sadoviy’s Samopomich party, holding the third and 24th positions on the list, respectively. Elections are scheduled for Oct. 26 with half the 450 seats being allocated to proportional party lists, and the other half in first-past-the-post single-mandate races.

    Après cette revue des candidats issus du monde de l’IT, dont D. Shymkiv, déjà vu ici http://seenthis.net/messages/290320, le journal passe au programme d’Olshanskiy (soit, Alexandre Olchansky) et c’est pas triste !

    Known for his libertarian ideas and outspoken statements regarding politics, especially on taxation issues and the right to bear arms, Olshanskiy expressed caution and flexibility in his plans for working as a lawmaker.

    I’m saying things that are not peculiar to me,” Olshanskiy said. “I’m a libertarian with a right-wing deviation, […] but the situation today is so thin that unity may prove more valuable than radicalism.

    He continued: “Although not being perfect, the president in my opinion has all necessary qualities to do something. And parliament now must help him. It does not mean we don’t need to control him, but we have to give him a chance to do something…Because the country really needs reforms.

    Encore un chaud partisan de l’armée suisse, du port d’armes…

    He wants to help the Ukrainian army adopt a similar structure to that of the Swiss army and on simplifying the tax code. “I don’t want to see the Ukrainian army similar to the Soviet Army. I’m for an army based on contract principles, but also for mandatory short period of military service and regular musters for all citizens,” Olshanskiy explained.
    Other measures he supports are to introduce a system of pre-draft training for the youth, as well as loosening gun control restrictions.

    … et bien sûr, un pourfendeur de l’impôt et de la régulation.

    As for economic reforms, Olshanskiy wants to “stop the war that the government fights against business for the past 23 years.” The IT businessman wants to start with making taxes in Ukraine more transparent by extending the existing simplified taxation scheme, which is now available for certain business activities.

    Staying true to his repeatedly declared values, Olshanskiy said that in the future he will also stand for abandoning the value-added tax altogether.

    VAT is the absolute evil for any economy, as is any implicit tax,” he added. “I think it needs to be canceled, and its propaganda has to be criminally prosecuted.

    Another measure Olshanskiy wants to introduce is a scheme that allows people and companies to pay their taxes directly to state-funded organizations.

    Let’s take the army as an example. If I buy them a tank, the army would give me a receipt for the amount I paid for it, and I would be able to reduce my taxes by this sum. It’s not charity, I’d just directly fund the state budget skipping the whole bureaucratic machine.

    In Olshanskiy’s opinion, this scheme can create a competitive alternative to the government apparatus.

    Pour conclure par un hymne aux entrepreneurs des nouvelles technologies et un coup de patte aux politiciens professionnels.

    These people [from the IT business] are self-reliant, they’ve already done many things — and will do more. Their way of thinking is similar to that of today’s volunteer battalions [in the war zone] — if I won’t do it, then who will? Do you think Shymkiv dreamed of working in the president’s administration? I assure you that a seat of the head of Microsoft Ukraine is way more comfortable. If you don’t go to the parliament to steal money, you have to understand that it’s hard work.

    Y a du boulot, en effet !