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• Tomenko: Only One Opposition Government Can Be Created Lawfully

  Tomenko's press service announced this in a statement.

  
• Police Close Case Against Rodina Party Leader Markov On Suspicion Of Beating Participants In Rally Of Svoboda Union In Odesa In 2007

  "This is a result of the end of the pressure from the side of secret services. First and foremost, this is linked with Viktor Yuschenko's leaving the post of the president. It is natural that today, when there is no political order, the prosecutors and courts started considering cases objectively," said Markov, according to the statement.

  
• Yuschenko Distressed By Yanukovych's Intention To Review Decrees That Conferred Hero Of Ukraine Award On Shukhevych And Bandera

  "It pains me that someone wants to review something ahead of May 9," Yuschenko said during a visit to Lviv.

  
• Yanukovych Approves Amendment That Defines Rada Coalition As Alliance Of Parliamentary Factions And Individual MPs

  At a meeting with the leaders of parliamentary factions, Yanukovych said stressed the importance of quick formation of a parliamentary coalition and a Cabinet of Ministers that is capable of functioning.

  
• Martynenko Denies That OUPSD Faction Passes Decision To Form Majority Coalition With Party of Regions

  "We did not collect any signatures to join [the coalition]. Not a single signature. Do not believe if somebody says there is even one signature on a decision of the faction to join the coalition with the Party of Regions and the Bloc of Lytvyn," he said.

  
• Lutsenko: Tihipko's Accepting Economy Vice Premier Post In New Cabinet Questions His Political Future

  "Tihipko's accepting the post of vice prime minister in the government of Azarov grieves not only because this questions the political future of politician Tihipko. Most disappointing is that this destroys once again the democratic project of the east of Ukraine," said Lutsenko.

  
• Yanukovych To Ask Constitutional Court To Immediately Eye Constitutionality Of Rada's Decision To Form Coalition With Factions And Out-Faction Deputies

  The president announced this intention at the meeting with ambassadors of G8 countries and countries of the European Union.

  
• MP Yefremov Of Party Of Regions Predicts New Coalition To Nominate MP Azarov Of Party Of Regions For Prime Minister

  "Today the majority of votes are for recommending Mykola Yanovich [Azarov] for prime minister. This candidate leaves doubt almost in no-one," Yefremov said.

  
• Court Imprisons One Of Elita Center Fraud Defendants Terentiev For Five Years For Office Negligence

  The court also urged Terentiev to return contracted amount to 800 victims of the fraud.

  
• PGO Drops Case Against Tsushko On Suspicion Of Excess Of Power To Seize PGO Building In 2007

  In particular the PGO department for investigation of particularly important cases completed a pre-trial investigation into this criminal case and basing on the investigation results and taking into account circumstances they had revealed closed it as no crime was found in Tsushko's acts.

  
• Yuschenko: Rada’s Decision To Define Parliamentary Coalition As Alliance Of Factions And Individual Deputies Is Unconstitutional

  Yuschenko said this in a statement posted on the official Internet website of the Our Ukraine party.

  
• Yatseniuk Rejects Yanukovych's Request To Join New Cabinet Of Ministers

  The presidential press service announced this in a statement.

  
• Eight-Nine Supporters Of MP Rybakov Likely To Enter New Coalition

  He said that the formation of such group will be announced on March 10.

  
• Swiss Commits Suicide In Premier Palace Hotel In Kyiv

  In his words, at about 4:30 pm on March 8 the Swiss threw himself from the flight of stairs at the hotels' fifth floor.

  
• Rada Rules Coalition As Amalgamation Of Factions And Members Of Parliament

  For endorsement in general of draft law No 6137 voted 235 MPs, while 226 votes required for passage.

  
• Tymoshenko Calling On Political Forces To Ally Against President Yanukovych

  She voiced her appeal at a meeting devoted to 196th anniversary of birth of poet Taras Shevchenko, being held around a monument to him in Kyiv.

  
• Turkish Citizen Opens Fire At General Consulate Of Ukraine In Turkey

  The incident did not entail wounds among employees of the general consulate.

  
• OU-PSD To Challenge In Constitutional Court Possible Rada's Permission To Factions And MPs To Form Coalition

  In his words, the faction understands the aspiration of President Viktor Yanukovych and the Rada's biggest faction, the Party of Regions, to establish effective work between the president, parliament and the Cabinet of Ministers somewhat quicker.