President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych have opposed each other for years. The current political crisis started in March 2007. But it is a continuation of the Orange Revolution.

April 2, President Yushchenko tried to fire Parliament (AKA Verkhovna Rada). This would force a new election for all 450 of Rada's deputies. He did this because Prime Minister Yanukovych's political base was strengthened when 11 deputies changed their political party affiliation.

Parliament refused to acknowledge they were fired and continued meeting. And Prime Minister Yanukovych's appealed this dismissal to Ukraine's Constitutional Court. April 25, Yushchenko and Yanukovych agreed to accept the ruling.

The question placed before the court ... Did President Yushchenko have constitutional authority to fire Parliament?

May 4, pro-Yushchenko deputies went to court to sue the other deputies. They were illegally meeting because they had been fired. Didn't they notice?

Stories and rumors started appearing about corrupt judges. President Yushchenko responded by firing three Constitutional Court judges (pro-Yanukovich). He stated the judges weren't upholding their oaths (aka corruption). Shortly after that the Court's Chief judge quit (no reason supplied). And then another judge quit.

In response to these events, one of the fired judges was appointed as chief judge. Rada called for the police to invest a "corrupt" judge. And of course it was just by chance (not) that Judge Stetsiuk supported President Yushchenko's position.

May 18, President Yushchenko announced he would not accept the Constitutional Court's ruling.

May 23, the Constitutional Court ruled that President Yushchenko didn't have the authority to fire the chief and vice-chief judge. The current law granting this authority was found to be unconstitutional.

This week seven of the eighteen judges declared themselves too sick to work. (cough, sputter, cough) So the court doesn't have a quorum and they cannot work.

President Yushchenko demanded that Prosecutor General Piskun (pro-Yanukovich) investigate the court for obstructing justice. Yeah like Yushchenko really believed this would happen. He has been trying to fire Piskun too.

Ukrainian president fires prosecutor-general but police resist. The Interior Minister (pro-Yanukovych) send police to "protect" Prosecutor General Piskun. You see there was a plot to "seize" this particular building.

The Party of Regions (political party run by Yanukovych) announced today that a "state coup is underway". I sure hope he is wrong.