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TRIUMPH OF REVOLUTIONARY EXPEDIENCY

10 February, 00:00
Revolutionary expediency. Invented by the Bolsheviks, this notion could be considered the motto of last week's events. They showed that the current administration tends to abide not by the law but by what it considers "expedient." The President signed a vociferous "Yalta Edict" struck a loud discordant note in the chorus of declarations about Ukraine being a "European country."

Perhaps the most important event was the President's message to the Constitutional Court, requesting official interpretation of the constitutional articles setting forth the amending procedures. The Court's ruling in this case may have a strong impact on the situation in Ukraine over the next several years. The next Parliament will very likely get down to straightening out the constitutional relationships between the President, Cabinet, and Parliament. To do so, changes will have to be made in the Constitution. Naturally, the President wants none of this. It is also probable, however, that Court's interpretation will be such that no constitutional changes will ever come to pass. If this be the case, the system existing since 1992 will be retained, a guarantee of many years of fruitful journalism centered on the conflict of the branches of government, while the rest of the population will continue peacefully on their downward slope.

The Premier has also contributed to the triumph of revolutionary expediency, ordering heads of central executive bodies to tour the regions, explaining to the people the undeniable advantages of the Cabinet's action plan (I am strongly tempted to use "Party Program" instead of "action plan", the more so since this plan was not properly adopted and has no legal status, while the presidential campaign is gaining momentum).

Dmytro Tabachnyk (former Head of the Presidential Administration) should have known better than let something like that feature in the newspaper Fakty i komentarii ( Facts and Commentaries) happen. It refers to an oblique Greek newspaper that carried a story about a conspiracy to assassinate the Ukrainian President and Premier. Previously, tricks like that were pulled off, using prestigious foreign periodicals. To top it all off, a certain incognito broke surface very conveniently in Drohobych with information that there were people actually plotting to do away with the Premier. The scene of the crime would be in Donetsk, of course. Where else, after all, where the previous killings? One could pose many interesting questions, but perhaps a quotation from Ilf's and Petrov's The Golden Calf. Ostap Bender, the famous con man, visiting an early Soviet-government-run asylum packed with smelly, hungry, and aggressive old hags, said: "A bit dull in here, girls".

 

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