Ukraine's president said Thursday he has vetoed a bill reducing his authority for a second time, in an ongoing power struggle between him and the prime minister, and returned it to parliament. The Western-leaning leader, Viktor Yushchenko, had last week vetoed the bill, which if it became law would turn Ukraine into a parliamentary republic and effectively make the president a mere figurehead...
Despite Ukraine’s steady progress towards democracy, the leadership recently took a significant step backwards, specifically in the legal area
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych recently visited the United States in order to strengthen ties between the two countries. The success of his visit is still not known, but, nevertheless, the prime minister faced a political crisis and legal chaos upon his return home. Considering the United States’ concern with building strong democracies, more attention should be paid to countries like Ukraine that have free elections but are struggling with the fundamentals of democracy...
NDP MP Peggy Nash (Parkdale – High Park) on December 7 introduced a Private Member’s Bill, Bill C-394, that will allow any Canadian citizen or landed immigrant to sponsor, once in their lifetime, one family member from outside the family class as defined in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act...
A new Estonian law could lead to the relocation of central Tallinn's Bronze Soldier monument, which honors Red Army soldiers killed during World War II. The removal of the monument could also mean the reinterment of 13 soldiers in an Estonian cemetery, a suggestion that has caused outrage in Moscow...
Setting out Germany's priorities for its EU Presidency, running from January to June of 2007, Chancellor Angela Merkel today gave the clearest indication yet that the terms of the EU's Neighborhood Policy (ENP) are about to be fundamentally changed. Merkel told the European Parliament in Strasbourg that the EU needs to approach the ENP with more "creativity" -- and start to think of it as a long-term alternative to membership...
A leading lawmaker from the Party of the Regions of Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych died today after being shot on a hunting trip. Yevhen Kushnarev died in a hospital, where he had undergone lengthy surgery for a stomach injury after suffering massive blood loss...
Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said on 12 January 2007: the state “should create conditions for the development of all denominations but, primarily, for the traditional ones, to which our Ukrainian Orthodox Church [-Moscow Patriarchate] belongs.”
Yanukovych also said: “The state should create conditions, but it should never interfere in internal church affairs” and he underlined that he will “carry out the state policy which the people, including the faithful, expect...
What is your general read on the whole immigration file? Is it going in the right direction?Is it good as it is right now or is it in crisis requiring a major face-lift?
There are ongoing problems with our immigration system.We have backlogs in our country and we have a very uneven immigration pattern, so that there are communities such as the Ukrainian community...
The Ukrainian Students’ Club at York University (USC) together with the York Federation of Students (YFS) and Stop the Hate Coalition (SHC), organized an on-campus commemorative and educational event on the Holodomor, called “Not To Be Forgotten: Genocide Remembrance and Education.” The event’s aim was to promote on-campus tolerance, acceptance and awareness of the Ukrainian Famine Genocide as a crime against humanity...
Ukraine moved a step closer to the constitutional crisis on Friday when Parliament had overwhelmingly voted to approve a law that dramatically reduces powers of the president. The law, pushed for by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, was also backed by opposition lawmakers loyal to former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, allowing Parliament to overcome a veto from President Viktor Yushchenko...
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UKRAINE PRESIDENT VETOES BILL CUTTING HIS POWERS 
