However, the MVS has become more politicized and is undergoing a “Putinization.” At his 100 days anniversary meeting with the media, Yanukovych was asked why the MVS prevented the opposition from protesting. He responded that this was untrue and that the MVS merely defended civic peace and halted attempts by a minority to prevent the majority from living in peace. As stated in Ukrayinska Pravda (June 5), “A few more such comments (from Yanukovych) and one could think that one was listening to an explanation by a Unified Russia party spokesman.”
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Eurasia Daily Monitor (Volume 7, Issue 120) "The “Putinization” of Ukraine’s Security Forces", another good excerpt from EDM (again no link). A speculative article on the political direction of the Ukrainian state under Yanukovych, which the article claims is looking more like Russia. This idea is echoed in a blog
post at Window on Eurasia on the vertical power structure being constructed by Yanukovych.
Some Ukrainians may now indeed want “a strong hand” but that does not mean that there is any reason to end public discussions of the issues. And in that regard, the range of opinions in society “is much broader and more diverse than [is reflected in the views expressed by] party representatives on the Ukrainian political Olympus.”
Ukrainians who oppose this measure need not turn to Ukrainian courts, Ivanov suggested. They have every right to make a direct appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, and they have every reason to do so: Even in Soviet times, the majority of deputies in local soviets were non-party people.
Tragically, it appears likely that Yanukovich plans to go even further to reverse Ukraine’s past democratic games. The Ukrainian president and Aleksandr Yefremov, the head of the Party of the Regions fraction, now say they would like to have a referendum to eliminate changes in the Constitution introduced after 2004 .
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