Yulia Speaks

Friday, Yulia Tymoshenko spoke briefly on a major news program/talk show and here's what she said about the circus on Thursday (this translation is from her personal website):

"A broad coalition is a broad grave for democracy and broad grave for Ukraine’s sovereignty, and therefore, our political force won’t enter into any broacoalitionsns. We will be either in the opposition or, if the law and the constitution allow this, we will undoubtedly favour an early election.

True, it is hard. Everyone is tired. I know that when people watch this coalition race, they simply spit at their televisions or switch them off or change channels. They are amazed to see what scum all these politicians are," Tymoshenko said.

"I don’t want to be in that camp, and therefore, we are either in the opposition – an honest opposition which does not wag its tail from left to right – or indeed we will fight in a new election so that people could understand that a new election means a new election with cleansing, now knowing the true face of politicians."

Moroz, who betrayed the Orange Coalition, never once said anything like that. I hope Yulia sticks to her guns!

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In other news, on Saturday we went to ICU's graduation. We had four church members graduating and many of these students I had taught. Actually, we just snuck in for the end. It was hard for me to be there. There were numerous students there who had left their faith or in a sense, I felt like they had betrayed me for one reason or the other. Then there is the whole tumultuous relationship with ICU. Goodheer was there for those in the know. He look liked he had gained some weight. Voichek had a new SUV. 88 students graduated. I don't think the growth ICU thought would happen ever materialized. It's probably because the quality of instruction spiraled downward while the costs of tuition skyrocketed.

After that, we went home, ate, grocery shopped, and did a major cleaning to our apartment. A major cleaning. On Sunday, Scott, Katherine, and Abbie Broadway came to Kyiv. I picked them up at the airport and they are staying in our apartment while we are staying at the UEC. They are here for a sort of encouragement/survey trip. So I am blogging tonight from the UEC. And we can smell the zoo!!

Lena has started her statistics class, and it's gotten hot in Kyiv. Hope your weekend was good.