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    The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.




    Gwendolyn Sasse, a lecturer at the LSE, explains how the high hopes of the orange revolution gave way to political bickering and an unlikely pact between President Yushchenko and his former nemesis.


    With the new constitution Ukranian PM has more power than president. What an irony!

  • #2
    Comming from a russian i find your comment exceedingly funny...
    "Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."

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    • #3
      Why?

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      • #4
        the power of your presidential office is a bit too... overwhelming ?
        "Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."

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        • #5
          Don't mock teh Lord God, or the CheKa GPU KGB FSB will get you. Does Khodorkovski ring a bell?

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          • #6
            Don't forget the NKVD! (Unless they order you to.)
            He's got the Midas touch.
            But he touched it too much!
            Hey Goldmember, Hey Goldmember!

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            • #7
              Originally posted by dannubis
              the power of your presidential office is a bit too... overwhelming ?
              Not at all. What's wrong with a presidential republic?

              p.s. Let's talk about how badly Orange sucks, not about the Lord God.

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              • #8
                Are they gonna have to send Otpor in again to tell everyone not to vote for teh evil easties? This kind of thing must cost Soros a fortune.

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                • #9
                  And what's wrong with a system that gives more power to the executive than the legislative?
                  In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.

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                  • #10
                    by the people, for the people etc etc

                    OK, it does not always work like it is supposed to but i generally distrust power concentration around one man
                    "Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Oncle Boris
                      And what's wrong with a system that gives more power to the executive than the legislative?
                      what?

                      Did you just call the president a part of the legislative branch?

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Ecthy


                        what?

                        Did you just call the president a part of the legislative branch?
                        No, he didn't.
                        THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
                        AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
                        AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
                        DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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                        • #13
                          me ? no...
                          "Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."

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                          • #14
                            This thread is about how a PM gets more power than a president. This is about sharing power within the executive. What the hell does the legislative branch has to do with this?

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                            • #15
                              Re: How the Orange revolution lost its juice

                              Originally posted by Serb
                              With the new constitution Ukranian PM has more power than president. What an irony!
                              That's not an irony. Under most parliamentary systems of governance, the PM has more power than the President.
                              THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
                              AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
                              AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
                              DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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