Ukraine Court Blocks Yanukovich Taking Power

[Khephra]

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's highest court on Thursday blocked the inauguration of the Moscow-backed prime minister as president, putting fresh wind in the sails of his liberal opponent who has led street protests to overturn his election.

The Supreme Court rejected official publication of results that showed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich had beaten Viktor Yushchenko in a run-off election on Sunday. The ruling effectively stopped Yanukovich being sworn in as head of state.

The West-leaning Yushchenko, who says he was robbed of victory by electoral fraud, hailed the ruling as a victory.

"This is only the beginning. It is proof that it is society that always wins. It is small compensation for the suffering that we have endured," he told tens of thousands of supporters on Kiev's Independence Square to wild cheering.

http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6921184

[bullimiami]

1. and our so called "supreme' court is a joke

a nasty anti-democratic treasonous joke. they stopped any questions and installed the puppet.

american government truly has nothing to be proud of.

[GetTheRightVote]

2. Yes, I must agree, Our supreme court is a joke

They are a nasty anti-democratic treasonous joke.
We do have a puppet American Government as they are again
this year. We have nothing to be pride of until justice is
served but it will not be by the Supreme Court, spit, spit.

[wordout]

3. which candidate does the military support?

Yanukovich should immediately ask Russia to help put down the american instigated insurgency.

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[Igel]

7. Post-Soviet politics ...

ain't American-style politics. The usual labels and distinctions don't apply. And I can't begin to understand all the various political and economic interests involved here.

Delay and Hutchison down here had pro-Yushchenko gatherings in their offices, according to Maidan.

[Zhade]

5. Wow, people standing up for their right to vote.

Wonder when this country will do the same?

I am utterly ashamed to live in this country right now.

[daleo]

6. Whose pocket is this Supreme Court in?

I don't really know enough about the Ukraine to say whether the election was fraudulent or whether the western backed politician is just playing us, with the backing of the western media. We haven't really seen a lot of specific examples of fraud yet - certainly no more than we have seen in the U.S. election, probably less. I would like to see the claims laid out, with evidence one way or another.

As for the ruling of the Supreme Court, I don't have a lot of faith in that being anything but a political decision, based on U.S. experience.

[kostya]

8. kick

:kick:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

9. Well, well, well .................

Who ever thought we'd be looking at the Ukraine and wishing we lived there, just because their Supreme Court does the right thing?

:::: sigh ::::

[cyberpj]

10. Underlying reasons for US to want this decision?

I just finished reading this on another thread and it occurred to me that the US may be objecting to their supported guy not winning because the Moscow group want to go Euro and we don't want that.

I'm not saying there wasn't election fraud, probably always has been, I'm just saying it's odd how public and determined the US is to have it OUR WAY this time.

???

Understanding the dollar's decline against the euro in the oil business:


President Vladimir Putin has stated both publicly and privately that invoicing Russia's crude-oil and gas exports to the European Union in euros instead of in dollars makes very good sense for both Russia and the EU. Putin is known to have very close relations with "old Europe", primarily Germany and France. His statements and those of German and French leaders have even on occasion drawn attention to the fact that US global dominance fundamentally rests on the fact that the dollar is the international currency, and that if an exit from the dollar were to occur in the sphere of global petro-transactions, the effect would be seriously to undermine that global dominance. Furthermore, a number of oil-exporting countries have already gone on public record as to their preference to make an exit from petro-dollars in favor of petro-euros. They have indicated that if Russia begins such a move to petro-euros, they will rapidly follow Russia's lead. The net effect would be a rapid international abandonment of the dollar as the international currency, which would in turn "bring down the towers" of the heavily debt-ridden US economy.

If Russia is perhaps positioning itself to make even a partial exit from the dollar in the pricing of its petro-transactions, then the Asian and other economies don't want to risk being left out in the cold, unprepared, seeing the value of their own huge dollar reserves undermined by a steep or chaotic decline in the value of the dollar. They cannot afford to ignore Russia's moves. Hence as Russia moves to decrease the percentage of its own holdings of dollars, so are the big Asian economies, as well as many other economies around the globe. No one wants to get burned in the event Russia moves to the euro. Additionally, as the dollar continues to weaken and crude oil continues to rise in price, having the dollar as the preferred international currency for petro-transactions will become more of a liability, especially for the big Asian economies, which are heavy importers of crude oil. This fact will tend to further undermine Asian, as well as the rest of international support for the dollar.

Entire article here:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/FK25Dj03.ht...

[cyberpj]

11. And more news on dollar vs. euros

And more news on dollar vs. euros

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041125/D86J5T000.html

[Wright Patman]

12. Why don't the German and French

leaders back Putin's candidate then?