Thursday, February 22, 2007

This just in (well, relatively just in - timeliness isn't my strong suit):

February 22, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Ukraine's parliament has rejected President Viktor Yushchenko's choices for foreign minister and security chief, RFE/RL's Ukraine Service reported.

Volodymyr Ohryzko -- a career diplomat and candidate for foreign minister -- had pledged to move Ukraine closer to the West.

Ohryzko received 196 of the 226 votes needed for confirmation.


Communists, Socialists and the Party of the Regions didn't cast a single vote for Ogryzko - which, I guess, characterizes him better than anything else would.

(And it's not about Ukrainian vs Russian, or West vs East. It's about thugs vs the intelligentsia, a dichotomy that exists everywhere, in varying proportions.)

1 comment:

  1. Megan Case4:22 PM, February 22, 2007

    "It's about thugs vs the intelligentsia, a dichotomy that exists everywhere, in varying proportions."

    Unfortunately, the thugs outnumber the intelligentsia pretty much everywhere. (Though the jury's still out on Sweden -- they've got such a strong committment to public education and lifelong learning that the overall cluelessness level seems much lower here than in the other places I've lived.)

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