Putin Tells Obama Russia Will Act In Case of Ukraine Violence

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38. That's odd.

Yesterday (Friday, February 28) Vladimir Rybak became the new acting head of the Party of Regions. Azarov resigned on Friday.

http://www.unian.ua/politics/891350-ribak-stav-vo-golovi-partiji-regioniv.html

That's days after it was supposedly banned. And just a couple of days after it moved into the opposition in the VR.

People here heard that a bill was offered in the VR to ban the PR and Communist Party.

They assumed that to propose a bill is to pass a bill. Obviously they think that Ukrainians are completely different from Americans or British, in whose legislatures bills are often proposed that sit there, untouched, unloved, and unpassed.

Or perhaps they're unaware of this little habit of legislatures--to allow all kinds of things to be proposed without permission from the Top Dog, even if they're never voted on. Ukraine, the US, Britain, they're just not as well run as Russia, I guess, where the legislature does its job, passing what the Top Dog wants and otherwise waits for orders. Now *that's* a democracy?

The other possible source of the muddle-headed thinking are news reports about the Party's being banned (with the Communist Party) in some strongly pro-Ukrainian jurisdictions. The area around Lviv, for instance, and some other areas in the center and West. Why, one such area banned the two parties on Wednesday or Thursday (again--if the party was outlawed nationally, why ban it locally?). Of course, a national-level judge already said that such banning has dubious legal footings and Constitutional merit.

The thing is, if self-professed znatoki, experts, are wrong on such an obvious point of fact, one that is easily verified and utterly debunked, one has to wonder what more subtle points they may have overlooked, and even--in a small fit of ill-will--wonder if perhaps they've crossed from mere confirmation bias into open disinformation.

The Party is under investigation for violating Ukrainian law. It's a witch hunt, sadly.