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Petro Poroshenko

5 (29.4%)

Yulia Tymoshenko

2 (11.8%)

Oleg Lyashko

2 (11.8%)

Anatoly Hrytsenko

2 (11.8%)

Serhiy Tihipko

0 (0%)

Mykhailo Dobkin

0 (0%)

Other

6 (35.3%)

Total Members Voted: 17

[Sheb]

Well, left and right wing means a lot of different stuff anyway.

Knit tie, beyond their link to some battalion is there anything in their policies that would warrant calling them neo-nazis?

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Well if Russians are idiots and believe that Eltsin's government is left, Zhirinovsky is a liberal democrat, and Ukrainian Radical party is neo-nazi.... That can't be cured

[Sheb]

Or it's just that in Russians words don't have the same meaning. A European liberal and a US liberal are too widely different things for example.

[smjjames]

I voted other in the poll above because I don't know enough about any of them. Though Poroshenko sounded like the 'least bad' of the candidates.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I can't stop giggling. Lyashko is a neo-nazi. Damn.

Lyashko is a masterful populist who says what is popular right now. Volunteer battalions are popular. He praises them. Increasing social spending are popular. He promises to raise that. Very anti-Russian rhetorics are popular. He uses that. And so on. He plays on the electoral field of politically uneducated people who believe that his radicalism is real and treat him like "our guy".

[Guardian G.I.]

An interesting article by Stratfor's George Friedman about the war in Ukraine and strategic forecasting.

[miljan]

Ukrainian journalists have taken to protesting outside of the Ukrainian Parliament buildings as they're upset at a new government ministry, which deputies approved in the Verkhovna Rada late on tuesday. The name of the new ministry: "The Ministry of Information Policy."

The government is now deciding the story that get's told. Journalists opposed to this notion are being arrested.

Reporters Without Borders is already stating it's firmly opposed to the creation of the ministry, stating "Putting the government in charge of 'information policy' would be major retrograde step that would open the way to grave excesses."

http://www.mdintlholdings.com/content/orwellian-ministry-truth-osce-lashes-out-kiev%E2%80%99s-new-ministry-amid-journalists%E2%80%99-outcry

[LordSlowpoke]

sounds like a just and democratic institution right guys

[smjjames]

Controlling information during war is one thing, but outright saying what does and does not get reported or even what journalists say is another.

I agree that it's a step backwards.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

OSCE dislikes it? Than it must be good

War censorship is necessary.
Answering Russian propaganda is necessary.

Of cause everything should be balanced, excessive control over media is awful practice, but current state of affairs when we have zero control is absurd

Was new ministry necessary? I think existing institutions could handle regulations just fine. Ukraine needs less ministers not more

[smjjames]

OSCE dislikes it? Than it must be good

War censorship is necessary.
Answering Russian propaganda is necessary.

Of cause everything should be balanced, excessive control over media is awful practice, but current state of affairs when we have zero control is absurd

Was new ministry necessary? I think existing institutions could handle regulations just fine. Ukraine needs less ministers not more

I agree that war censorship and anti-propoganda is neccesary given Ukraines position, but wanting to completely control what journalists report and say, no.

Lets just see how it plays out, maybe it won't be as Orwellian as people think, or maybe it will.

[miljan]

OSCE dislikes it? Than it must be good

Than I guess russia support of rebels is also good .

But, yea in war times, its common to have bigger control of medias unfortunately. To remove propaganda and truth that is negative/harmful  also.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

To illustrate, currently in Ukraine journalists find it absolutely OK to go and say something like "Unit A stationed in city B has no enough anti-tank weapons. Boo the government"

I see a problem here

[Sergarr]

I'm pretty sure without journalists the encirclement of Ilovaisk would have wiped out all the encircled troops, since the Ukr-Army-Command has only started to pay attention to it after five days of constant media pressure.

[miljan]

To illustrate, currently in Ukraine journalists find it absolutely OK to go and say something like "Unit A stationed in city B has no enough anti-tank weapons. Boo the government"

I see a problem here

I see problem with ukraine military, complaining about its government and giving info to the press. That is the main problem with you example, not the press. So commanding officers should take care of that.