Government Should Obey the Laws or Go

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.