Should We Really Give This Verkhovna Rada More Authority to Implement the Political Reform?
By Serhiy Makhun, James Mace, The Day The Day Weekly Digest, Kyiv, Ukraine Tuesday, May 20, 2003 On May 15 Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution, On an Address to the Ukrainian People from the Participants of the Verkhovna Rada Special Meeting to Commemorate Victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor, declaring that the catastrophic manmade famine, which claimed lives of untold millions of Ukrainians, was “an act of genocide” and “a terrorist act of the political system of Stalinism” against the Ukrainian people, UNIAN reported. The resolution was supported by 226 lawmakers, the minimum required for its adoption, of the 410 attending the session. When almost three years ago in late October 2000 the president of Ukraine issued an order, On the Day to Commemorate Victims of the Famine and Political Repression, it seemed that the state had finally formulated its approach to its totalitarian past. However, the discussion of the resolution at the hearings left the impressions that there were more que
