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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

Government Should Obey the Laws or Go

30 March, 1999 - 00:00

Kyiv students demand at protest

By Roman KHIMYCH

"The state is a totality of individual officials who claim their own interests
are public ones." Proceeding from this aphorism, several youth organizations
decided to stage in Kyiv a campaign against "the criminal policy of the
Cabinet of Ministers".

Youth is Ukraine's Hope, leader Vadym Hladun was vigorously convincing
The Day's correspondent of the disastrous consequences for tens
of thousands young people (whose monthly scholarship is little more than
symbolic - Hr 9-15 or $2.25-3.75), if they are stripped of transport privileges.
He also gave a lengthy and enthusiastic discourse on the high degree of
youth's social protection in Europe. However, when asked at whose cost
the government should finance such privileges, he showed some uncertainty:
"The students are not interested where the government will get the money,
they need to use public transport today, now."

Representatives of the Young Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists were
more consistent: "There are laws on privileges which the government should
obey. If it can't, it should go. Concerning the cancellation of students'
privileges in connection with the critical state of Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian
Railway Company), we think that in this case the Cabinet must also revoke
privileges for People's Deputies at all levels, Ministry of Interior officials,
and other categories of the population able to pay."

Incidentally, Ukraine's Hope also carried slogans "No to a government
of the economic impotent" and "Government to the hospital," Thus, youth
is, as always, ahead of us all. But not as a single unit. At the last moment,
the Socialist Youth Congress decided to stage a separate action next to
the Presidential Administration.

 

Kyiv students demand at protest
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