Ukraine: PM Tymoshenko · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

Ukrainiana writes about today's vote for Yulia Tymoshenko as prime minister – a “completely public vote,” notes Orange Ukraine – and lists the new ministers in her cabinet. Foreign Notes explains the new defense minister's reluctance to vote for Tymoshenko – and points out Tymoshenko's “dilemma”: “If she is elected PM tomorrow she knows that she will have to operate in almost impossible conditions with the most slender of majorities in the VR, and with some in her cabinet she would rather not be there.” Mark MacKinnon believes that “future summits between the Russian and Ukrainian prime ministers will have a touch of drama to them.”