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No Consensus On Fair World Order In Our Climes of Europe
Olexandr Sushko, Chief Research Supervisor of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation  Oftentimes it is difficult to bring dissimilar views of national interests to a common denominator. For example, if the fair regional system is the case, they tend to establish spheres of interest intended to break Europe into spheres of influence with domination of certain powers, which do not take into account the interests of Ukraine.
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Our New President Is the Boss
Volodymyr Zolotariov, political observer  Yanukovych is not a leader of the nation listening to the social trends with a keen ear, but a boss. Such top men boss everybody around without any disputes. I mean the insiders.
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Ukraine attempts the impossible and remains a democracy
Volodymyr Stus, Head of the Ukrainian Center for Strategic Initiatives  We have no problems with the political system, there is a movement. And until there remains at least two forces competing for power there is nothing to worry about.
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Deprived Law
Maxym Latsyba, Ukrainian Independent Center for Political Research  Real steps of the Head of State in Ukraine for the benefit of citizens may be as follows: hand out awards, grant or negate Ukrainian citizenship, make certain appointments, and pardon. Anything else would be beyond his power.
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Yanukovych: underlying objective––modernization of the country and introduction of technocracy
Kost Bondarenko, Director of the Gorshenin Kyiv Institute of Management  Yanukovych has a developed self-preservation instinct. He will work hard with the Constitutional Court to disaffirm the Verkhovna Rada decision of December 8, 2004 and return to the 1996 Constitution in order to launch new political reforms. That is, we face another turn to a presidential republic.
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Society to hit the road to modernization
Anatoly Gutsal, Associate Director, National Institute of Ukrainian-Russian Relations  The main resource of power is power itself. It contains everything needed to implement political will and intentions. There remained a sufficient level of education, although somewhere brains are lost. We must bestir the populace and they will restore their full potential; we should revive the zest for life. It is like postwar reconstruction; there is no enthusiasm and upsweep, though.
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Old debts for the new President
Igor Burkovsky, Institute of economic studies and political consultations  If we pay our debts, the President and the Government make steps in the right direction. Otherwise all negative expectations will be corroborated.
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Business and friendship don't mix
Mykola Ozhevan, Head of the Inf. Security Dpt. and International Info. Relations at the National Institute of International Security SNBU, Ph.D., Prof.  Too bad, if the president resorts to dialectic negation of negation, that is, revive old realities on the new basis. No need to go back to the ideas of Kuchma era, though, because Yushchenko started to use a beautiful word nation. We should use it more often and add a word "consolidation", because our society is split, and every election aggravates this rift.
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Amorphism can help solving short-term problems, but will lead to strategic losses
Oleg Vernick, Chairman of the Independent Trade Union "Labor Protection"  Yanukovych has both the experience of defeats and a brief experience of victories; certainly, he has concluded that the amorphism can help to tackle short-term problems, but leads to strategic losses. The Party of Regions is strong enough to ram its own policies and implement long-term projects.
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The public is high on expectations of the new president's radical changes, urgent reforms and quality changes
Olexiy Krysenko, Associate Professor of Political Science of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University  Undoubtedly, the political prospects of the new president depend on his ability to control domestic economic crisis. In fact, the way forward over the permanent crisis is a priority of the whole government.
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The President has sufficient authority and resources to develop a modernization project for Ukraine
Igor Kohut, President of the Agency for Legislative Initiatives  Say what we may about an economic and social policy, the political reform is a priority for the president. Almost all our problems can be boiled down to ineffective management and lack of separation of power among key players. Setting clear rules of play with the help of political and constitutional reforms is a strategic priority for the new president.
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The time is near for new politicians and qualitatively new policy
Anatoly Kulykov, Director of the Research Center for Civil Society Problems  In fact, Yanukovych has inherited the unbalanced system of power with many pitfalls. The country still lacks such vital financial instrument as Budget-2010. The President has but one lever to influence the Cabinet: he can revoke government regulations by his decree on the pretext that they either do not meet the Constitution or national security. All this confronts the new president with a number of serious challenges. But above all, under the current Constitution, he will have to create a number of mechanisms to influence the policy of the Cabinet.
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The new president’s strategic objective is to go over the hill and meet the economic crisis
Yaroslav Zhalylo, President of the Center for Crisis Studies  "The frame of the new system of power should be business-oriented to further national wealth and tax payments"
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"All political forces of Ukraine will unite just to survive under the new president"
Olexandr Vyshniak, PhD, Director of the Ukrainian Sociology Service  In the Ukrainian parliamentary-presidential system of governance, the only thing the new president can try and make is to restore, at least at a minimum level, functioning of all public institutions.
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