{"id":4715,"date":"2010-03-04T16:37:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4715"},"modified":"2011-01-20T16:01:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:01:54","slug":"ukraine-in-constitutional-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/03\/04\/ukraine-in-constitutional-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine in constitutional crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4716\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/03\/Ukraine-flag-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ukraine flag\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Ukraine&#8217;s newly elected president has been unable to muster a <a title=\"coalition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSLDE6231NU20100304?type=marketsNews\" target=\"_blank\">coalition<\/a> in parliament to replace the prime minister whom he defeated for the presidency.\u00a0 The president&#8217;s party is trying to change the law to make coalition forming easier, which the ex-PM&#8217;s party calls a &#8220;constitutional coup d&#8217;etat.&#8221;\u00a0 Ukraine expert Tammy Lynch from BU&#8217;s <a title=\"Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology &amp; Policy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iscip\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology &amp; Policy<\/a>, says the country is at a crossroads.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Reverting to a system that undermines parties and blocs would reverse Ukraine&#8217;s democratic development significantly.\u00a0 All parliamentary structure could be destroyed &#8212; and, given the number of millionaires and billionaires in Ukraine&#8217;s parliament, they have plenty of money to get whatever they want done.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Tammy Lynch, 617-353-5815, <a href=\"mailto:tammymlynch@hotmail.com\">tammymlynch@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s newly elected president has been unable to muster a coalition in parliament to replace the prime minister whom he defeated for the presidency.\u00a0 The president&#8217;s party is trying to change the law to make coalition forming easier, which the ex-PM&#8217;s party calls a &#8220;constitutional coup d&#8217;etat.&#8221;\u00a0 Ukraine expert Tammy Lynch from BU&#8217;s Institute for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2348,2347,2450,2346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7856,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions\/7856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}