Dear Madams and Sirs! Congratulate You with Christmas and the New 2012 Year! I sincerely wish You strong health and vigor, optimism and vivacity, inspiration and fruitful work, great successes and achievements! Let Your noble projects and plans come true! With best wishes, Dr. Oleh Soskin, Institute of Society Transformation Director.

Lately the Kremlin strengthened its ambitions into a global leadership. Statements sounded repeatedly that Russia should revive itself as a center of Eurasian Union. If analyze economic power of Russia and its economic indicators impartially, it is possible to draw a conclusion Russian Federation  is an extraordinarily backward country in measures of  economic welfare and technological competitiveness. No doubt, it belongs to the countries of the third world.

Today during the action of protest a confrontation occurred between Chornobyl veterans and “BERKUT” officers. One demonstrator suffered as a result of the confrontation. For the time being the victim is unconscious, his health condition is unknown.

On November 26, 2010 in border city Novovolynsk (Volyn region) was held international seminar-training on the theme: “Branding and promotion of small towns according to the standards of the European Union: experience of the Visegrad Group countries for Ukraine”. The event was held in the framework of the international project, which carried out by Institute of Society Transformation (IST) together with the International Visegrad Fund.

Research articel of Oleh Soskin, Institute of Society Transformation Direcotr, offers a basis analysis of social-economic indicators of development in Ukraine, its dynamics, and compares analogical economical rates of development of Western countries, proving that models of state-monopoly, clan-oligarchic capitalism, which for the time being prevails in Ukraine have depleted its potential. It is pointed out that the maintenance of a competitive development economic model in Ukraine requires replacement by the more effective – model of people’s capitalism. It proposes the ways of transition to this model.

Ukrainian National Conservative Party considered unconstitutional the consideration by the Cabinet Ministers of Ukraine and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine the draft Tax Code of Ukraine and its adoption on first reading on October 7, 2010. For the current Parliament of the sixth convocation led by Vladimir Litvin and the Government of Ukraine headed by Mykola Azarov are unconstitutional authorities according to the September 30, 2010 Constitutional Court decision on the unconstitutionality of the Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine" of 8 December 2004, number 2222-IV.

Ukrainian National Conservative party  is confident that given the current Constitutional Court decision, the President of Ukraine must first dissolve the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, as it is now unconstitutional, and therefore one which usurped power in the state. Second, the President of Ukraine must dismiss the entire Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine headed by Mykola Azarov and form a provisional government.

Director of Institute of Society Transformation Oleh Soskin does not see anything new in the new political season in Ukraine, but predicts some major trands: "whatever happens now is just the beginning of the process -- trial of strength, many famous people leaving the stage, the arrival of new ones, as yet unknown and incomprehensible. While this is just confusion, a worsening economic situation, and demoralization, it will test the weak. What's next? Next will be a lot of apathy, depression and boredom". He spoke about this and other things in an exclusive interview with correspondents from ForUm.

All-Ukrainian National Assembly of Leaders of Local Communities and Public Organizations apply to Mr. Dick Marty, Chair of the PACE Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe to take under personal control the monitoring process of putting in order Ukrainian election legislation according to the PACE Resolution №1549 (April, 2010).

Ukrainian citizens, we would like to warn you of the euphoria over the results of the second round of presidential elections and to encourage careful attitude to the events that will soon take place in Ukraine. They can become unpredictable nature, to entail worsening crisis in the political and the economic fronts. The real intent of the new President, his disposition towards European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine and the strengthening of democratic principles of development can attest to his only real steps towards changing the electoral system.