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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

NEWS IN BRIEF

13 November, 2012 - 00:00

Serhiy Odarych Suffered Because
of Money, Claims Prosecutor General

“The case of Pavlo Lazarenko will be considered within three months. I will report on the results additionally,” declared Prosecutor General of Ukraine Mykhailo Potebenko during his first meeting with journalists.

Names of those who attempt to “use the prosecutor's general office for private purposes will be instantly made public,” he declared. “People's Deputy Serhiy Holovaty turned recently to me to give information on one candidate for People's Deputy, who will run for Parliament on September 16. I refused to give him the information and I am sure I was right,” the Prosecutor General underlined.

Commenting on the murder attempt on Ukrainian Perspective Fund head Serhiy Odarych, Potebenko said, “We already have information on this case. We know why they tried to shoot him. The fund's president suffered because of money. I have the facts.”

Potebenko also reported that he has established a new structure of the prosecutor's office, according to which three branches have been eliminated and 137 people laid off.

Potebenko thinks that the Prosecutor's Office fails to fulfill all its tasks primarily because his predecessors were hostages to their own careerism. Potebenko did not state exactly whom of the ex-prosecutors he blames, reported Inna Zolotukhina, The Day.

Lviv Wars Against All Things Red

Local anticommunist zealots spotted a serious “red threat” in the city streetcars: posters pasted to windows looked challengingly red from outside. On the evening of July 27, a group of radical residents started stopping streetcars and tearing down the hateful red sheets – and the date was no coincidence: 54 years ago on this day Soviet troops drove the Nazis out of the city, reports The Day's Oleksandr Syrtsov.

Just as the radicals were fighting streetcars, their ideological opponents gathered for a meeting by the Soviet Liberation Memorial. There were not many people present and a double ring of the militia provided reliable protection.

PS: Coca Cola billboards are bigger and redder, found all over the city, yet the red-haters have left them alone so far.

Just the Facts

A new party will be founded in Ukraine under the tentative name Volodymyr the Great. It is aimed at strengthening the Ukrainian state by strengthening presidential power and eventually establishing a presidential republic.

The Cabinet has allocated Hr 1 million to solve the problem of deported Crimean Tatars. Crimean Premier Sergei Kunitsyn says this money will be used for securing electricity, water, and gas supplies to the compact Crimean Tatar settlements of Ak Mechet in Simferopol and Ismail Bei in Yevpatoriya.

The Crimean Parliament has approved the autonomous republic's government structure, including 11 republic committees and 10 ministries (economy, finance, fuel and energy, resorts and tourism, agribusiness, culture, education, labor and social protection, health, architecture and construction policy).

From Interfax Ukraine

 

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