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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

Campaign Heats Up

13 November, 2012 - 00:00

Sometimes I have to refer to other publications, and this
time is one. For those of you who read Russian, Saturday's Zerkalo nedeli
is worth looking at for two materials. First of all Speaker Tkachenko accuses
former American and now People's Deputy Roman Zvarych of being the CIA's
agent in Verkhovna Rada and a bigamist, most likely because it was Zvarych
who back in 1994 first doggedly followed the train of how Mr. Tkachenko's
Land and People Association took out under government guarantee a sizable
loan of $70 million to buy "miracle" American seed and after buying cars,
computers, and other things that could easily get lost in the shuffle,
gave away most of the seed and left the government holding the bag. When
Mr. Tkachenko became Speaker, of course, Premier Pustovoitenko announced
that the loan (which the state had by then paid off) was forgiven. For
some months, the Speaker was a supporter of the President, but, as one
American once told me, "The problem is not corruption. The problem is that
they don't stay bought, and when somebody else offers them more money,
you have to buy them all over again."

Yet another material in the same issue by Vyacheslav Pikhovshek merits
attention because he points out that the incumbent is so intent on winning
another term because if he doesn't, he will be liable to do hard time.
Vyacheslav thinks he will pull it off. Say it isn't so!

Meanwhile an independent poll puts Oleksandr Moroz first and Yevhen
Marchuk second in terms of popularity with the voters. They have one big
thing in common: both are practically banned from the electronic mass media.

 

 

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