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			<title>Rada rubberstamps Criminal Code in first reading
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			<description><![CDATA[Verkhovna Rada has passed the first reading of the draft Criminal Code tabled by Pres Yanukovych. 
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Journalists who wrote about smeared Yanukovych portraits summoned for questioning by police</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/09/333070</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[The police opened 2 probes into the daubing with paint of Yanukovych portraits on street billboards in Lviv and Rivne, Gazeta.ru reports Feb. 9. 
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Zabzaliuk recording is first successful operation by Kozhemyakin, expert believes</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/09/333027</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the scandal involving Zabzaliuk revelations, lawmakers will be more cautious in their conversations with each other, but defection of lawmakers will not stop, Taras Berezovetst (Berta Communications) told ZIK Feb. 9.  
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Hrytsenko doubts competence of new defense minister</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/08/332986</link>
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Viktor Yanukovych bases his appointments on personal loyalty to him, not professional qualities, says head of VR committee for national security and defense Anatoly Hrytsenko, Dzerkalo Tyzhnya reports Feb. 8. 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>New defense minister’s track record
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			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/08/332985</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ukraine’s new DM Dmytro Salamatin did a 2-year army service, sold weapons to Iraq and engaged in bloody fistfights in Verkhovna Rada. 
Born in Kazakhstan, he worked as a coal miner in Karaganda, then moved to Moscow and, finally, to Ukraine in 1999, Tyzhden reports Feb. 8. 

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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Turchynov says he knew about Zabzaliuk’s infiltration
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			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/08/332980</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Zabzaliuk launched his operation to expose bribing of opposition lawmakers by pro-majority parties. He checked his bold step with BYUT, says BYUT’s deputy head Olerksandr Turchynov, UNIAN reports Feb. 8. 

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			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:54:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>PGO ready to investigate Zabzaliuk’s claim of $450,000 bribe for his defection
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			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/08/332973</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[“If lawmaker Zabzaliuk writes an appeal we will investigate the incident within 10 days,” was the comment by the prosecutor general’s office on the press conference by BYUT lawmaker Zabzaliuk in which he told journalists he had been paid $450,000 to defect, The Ukrayinska Pravda reports Feb. 8.  
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>BYUT’s scout’s exposure after 2 months in enemy camp
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			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/08/332906</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[When the Batkivshchyna party learned about schemes by the ruling regime against the opposition, BYUT’s lawmaker Roman Zabzaliuk received a mission to defect to the enemy camp to learn about the majority plans, the lawmaker told journalists Feb. 8.    

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			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Regions not going to change their stance on Tymoshenko</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/08/332891</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[The majority in Rada is not going to decriminalize the articles under which Tymoshenko was sentenced, said Regions faction leader Oleksandr Yefremov, after his faction derailed the bill tabled by the opposition to lift the criminal sentence from their leader, Ukrayinska Pravda reported Feb. 8. 

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			<category>Politics</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Majority derails bills aimed at lifting Tymoshenko’s criminal sentence 
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			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/08/332878</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[The bill tabled by the opposition to decriminalize art. 364 and 365 under which Yulia Tymoshenko was sentenced to 7 years in jail got the support of only 159 opposition lawmakers, Liga.net reports Feb. 8. 


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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>EU stops financial help to Ukraine because of Andry Kljuev
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			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/08/332820</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[The European Commission suspended its annual financial assistance to Ukraine to the amount of 160 mn euros because its first tranche was misallocated for commercial programs related to first Vice Premier Andry Kljuev, Komersant-Ukrayiny quotes a highly placed European Commission representative as saying Feb. 8.  

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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Speaker smells EU sanctions against Ukraine
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			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/07/332615</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Addressing lawmakers Feb. 7, Speaker Lytvyn assumed the EU may impose sanctions against Ukraine, Ukrayinska Pravda reports the same day.  

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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>United opposition to nominate dissident Zakharov for ombudsman
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			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/07/332607</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Committee to Oppose Dictatorship, COD, is to hold talks with Yevhen Zakharov to get his consent to be nominated for Ukraine’s ombudsman, Natalia Korolevska, BYUT, said, speaking on Kanal 5 TV Feb. 7. 

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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Opposition lawmakers muzzling Yanukovych’s address to legislators</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/07/332569</link>
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Feb. 7, Rada reconvened after its 3-week winter recess. But it was a bad day for Viktor Yanukovych who came to the Rada to give his address. For 7 minutes he could not start his speech and stood on the rostrum to the accompaniment of “Freedom to Yulia!” and “Shame!” slogans.  

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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Appointment of ex-KGB officer as head of Security Service indicates return to Soviet past, says Volodymyr Vyatrovych</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/06/332426</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[The SBU, Ukraine’s Security Service, cannot be based on experience and methods of the KGB which was a criminal punitive structure, says SBU archive former director and historian Volodymyr Vyatrovych, the Liberation Movement Research Center Feb. 6 website report runs. 

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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Officials in liquidated ministries continued to get double salaries for 12 months
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			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/06/332420</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Despite his assurances, Pres Yanukovych failed to enforce the downsizing of the state apparat. The liquidated ministries of economy and industrial policy continue to work. Moreover, in 2011 their officials had been received double salaries, claims Anatoly Hrytsenko, speaking in Lviv on ZIK TV Feb. 6.   

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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Press services of V.Yanukovych and H. Clinton give different accounts of their meeting in Munich</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/06/332278</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[In the course of the Feb. 3-4 conference on security in Munich Pres Yanukovych had a brief meeting with US State Secretary Hillary Clinton. However, both sides give differing evaluation of its agenda, Tyzhden reports Feb. 6. 

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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Five negatives of new Criminal Code</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/05/332242</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[On Jan. 13, Pres Yanukovych tabled a draft Criminal Code in Verkhovna Rada. Writing for The Ukrainian Week Jan. 31, Oleksandr Banchuk, Ph.D (Law), stresses five points which heavily outweigh the draft’s positives. 

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			<category>Crime & Emergencies</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Yanukovych softens stance on Tymoshenko?</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/05/332235</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Yulia Tymoshenko can be treated by foreign doctors but the treatment must be in Ukraine, Pres Yanukovych told journalists in Munich Feb. 4 after his talk with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 


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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Whoever wins parliamentary elections will change constitution, Tomenko says</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/05/332234</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Speaking to UNIAN Feb. 5, the deputy Rada Speaker said the opposition was unanimous in rejecting any cooperation with the constitutional assembly appointed by Pres Yanukovych.

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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
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