Tymoshenko may resign

The contradictions between Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko reached a critical point. The Prime Minister of Ukraine may resign in the next few days. This was said by the informed People’s Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Tymoshenko faction, writes Independent Gazeta .

According to the deputy, the reason for the last scandals was Tymoshenko’s intention to visit Moscow in order to agree on strengthening cooperation, at the moment when Yushchenko is preparing for negotiations on Ukraine’s membership in NATO and the EU, as well as to the Chisinau Summit, who can put an end to the existence of the CIS.

The second reason was the arrival on Wednesday to Kiev representatives of Boris Berezovsky . The very fact of their arrival significantly strengthened the domestic political positions of the person close to the person, the head of the Council of National Security and Defense of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, with whom Yulia Tymoshenko did not have relations, the publication notes.

"If she (Tymoshenko) will succumb to pressure and write a resignation statement, then it is Poroshenko that will take the post of prime minister," the deputy said. According to him, even before the victory of the Orange Revolution, Yushchenko was sure that he would be the head of the Cabinet of Ministers, and Tymoshenko took the appointment of as a misunderstanding.

Indirect confirmation of the difficulties that arose was the fact that Tymoshenko Prime Minister, who had even spent the night in the government building, first did not appear at the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers. In parallel, it became known that Tymoshenko either transferred or canceled her visit to Moscow , previously planned on April 15-16.

According to the newspaper, not one of the phone numbers of the prime minister responded. An employee of the office of the Cabinet of Ministers said she had no right to disclose any information. She only said that Yulia Tymoshenko planned to hold a press conference on Wednesday. “A lot of interesting things will sound there. And you will receive answers to all questions,” the employee announced. However, the press conference did not take place, writes the publication.

Tymoshenko’s refusal to come to Moscow testifies to some diplomatic emergency

In the relationship of Russia with the "Orange" Ukraine, the first serious scandal erupted. Tymoshenko’s vague explanations look strange and clearly indicate some diplomatic emergency, the meaning of which the Ukrainian authorities, however, are in no hurry to reveal. After all, Russia was supposed to be the first country to visit Tymoshenko in the rank of prime minister, Kommersant writes.

Meanwhile, representatives of the Ukrainian government tried to explain the reason for the abolition of Tymoshenko’s visit to Moscow. At first, the version was made that the Prime Minister fears the arrest, especially since the last two days the prosecutor general of the Russian Federation Vladimir Ustinov stated that the case against Yulia Tymoshenko was not closed and that she was still wanted.

- Ustinov: Russia is still looking for Tymoshenko through Interpol

Later, this information was together by the Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Kina and Minister of Economics Sergey Terekhin. They also said that the head of government could not be distracted from the sowing campaign .

The same version was confirmed by Tymoshenko’s spokeswoman Vitaly Chepinoga: “According to my information, Tymoshenko’s visit to Moscow is transferred because the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko issued an order that the Prime Minister of Ukraine, as well as the Minister of Agriculture, the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Economics, has so far refrain from foreign trips, transfer them 2-3 weeks before the end of field work to stabilize the situation in the oil product market. "

Until the end of the day, a more believable version of the cancellation of the visit was never sounded. However, Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Rybachuk specified that there was no official confirmation of the information that Yulia Tymoshenko was giving up a trip to Moscow. Adding that the transfer of the visit is “this is an abnormal phenomenon,” the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that this “should not affect the interstate relations of Ukraine and Russia”.

Ukrainian premiere is not up to Moscow - she has a sea at home

The failed visit of the Ukrainian prime minister to Moscow for a number of reasons was of fundamental importance for both Yulia Tymoshenko himself and for the Russian leadership, Kommersant writes. For the first time announcing the intention to visit Russia in mid -April, last Thursday Yulia Tymoshenko stated that she hopes to conduct an “open and honest conversation in Moscow on how to combine our efforts, how to build our mutual interests, how to make everyone feel comfortable outside their countries.”

Meanwhile, on a broken visit in both countries, special hopes were imposed. “I am convinced that the result of this visit will be the establishment of cooperation on equal, partnerships,” Yulia Tymoshenko said a week before the planned visit to Moscow, which was to be her first foreign trip in the rank of prime minister. It was assumed that Yulia Tymoshenko would propose a change in the concept of a single economic space (EEP), where Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine should enter, the newspaper.gzt.ru writes. Last Tuesday, the policy of Ukraine in this matter was finally designated by Viktor Yushchenko. "Ukraine will not agree to steps that can complicate the European integration of the country, and will not participate in the creation of supranational authorities in the EEP," the country's president said. And last week in Moscow, Minister of Economics of Ukraine Sergey Terekhin said that instead of EEP it was necessary to organize a free trade zone.

“In Moscow, they cannot agree with the conditions of Kyiv, but Tymoshenko cannot be refused: Russia will be accused of disrupting the EEP project. So they decided to simply delay negotiations. Here, Ustinov’s frankly offensive statement arises,” said Alexei Makarkin, deputy leader of the Center for Political Technology.

At the same time, the deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Ahmed Bilalov entrusts all the blame for the breakdown of the visit to the Ukrainian side. “This is their internal struggle. Many in Ukraine are dissatisfied with the current Regulation of Tymoshenko. Now, after a clearly far -fetched reason, she will have to give way to the negotiator under the EEP Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars of the Council of People's Commissars, who has long been involved in this topic,” the deputy said.

It is noteworthy that at the end of last week, Yulia Tymoshenko accused Russian oil industry workers of going to “earn extra money on the population of Ukraine and the agrarian complex”, raising prices for fuels and lubricants on the eve of the sowing. The Ukrainian prime minister said that trade allowances will be limited by 15%.

As the publication notes, reminding Yulia Tymoshenko through the mouth of the Prosecutor General Ustinov of an unclosed criminal case, in Moscow they hoped in this way to force her to continue to be softer in matters affecting the interests of Russian business.

In addition, another reason could be the triumph of the head of the Donetsk regional council Boris Kolesnikov , who was recently detained from the submission of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. In the Donbass, this is considered the beginning of a wide campaign of the new government against the political and business elites of Eastern Ukraine, which has close ties with Russia. And, as Kommersant notes, it is very likely that this point of view was established in the Russian leadership.

It should be noted that the scandal around the visit of Yulia Tymoshenko coincided with the application on Wednesday, a statement on the creation of the association of the opposition forces of Ukraine, which included representatives of 19 parties and 12 public organizations. The Committee was headed by the leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych. The creation of a new block, which intends to challenge the pro -government "our Ukraine" in the parliamentary elections of the next year, allows Moscow to count on political revenge in Ukraine for a humiliating defeat in the presidential election. However, the arrest of the head of the Donetsk regional council of Boris Kolesnikov, the right hand of Yanukovych, the threat to the rest of his associates, as well as attempts to control the possible financial resources of this block may deprive the opposition of the chances of the parliamentary elections.