Quotable notes

"I can say nothing bad about oligarchs: if someone offers himself for sale, they buy him. Everything takes place in such a manner - votes and transfers [of deputies between parliamentary caucuses]. This Parliament is rotting inside so strongly that one can smell this from far, far away. A migration has begun to the pro- presidential majority as well. Each caucus wants to have as many deputies in this majority as possible, in order to be a 'trendsetter' there."

- Former pro-presidential parliamentary majority leader Leonid Kravchuk, explaining in the September 21 issue of the newspaper Den (Day) how the current majority might expand to the 300 deputies necessary to approve constitutional amendments (cited by RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report).

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, October 8, 2000, No. 41, Vol. LXVIII

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