“Attempts to thwart the work, including supreme state bodies and those in localities are a crude violation of law,” Kuchma said, adding that Viktor Yushchenko made a statement at the roundtable on lifting the blockade of the Ukrainian parliament, the president’s office as well as the government and that he would not permit blockading the operation of the Supreme Court”.

The president instructed chairman of the Central Bank Sergei

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Tigipko who headed the Viktor Yanukovich headquarters during the election race, to report for work on Monday over “disquieting symptoms in the banking system”.

Officers of some power structures also called for observing legality in the country. “The Ukrainian Security Service cannot be used in party, group or personal interests,” says an address by the Coordination Council of an officers’ meeting of the Ukrainian secret service. It contains a reminder that all the officers took an oath of allegiance to the Homeland and people and swore to observe the Constitution.

Officers of the Ukrainian Prosecutor-General’s Office also opposed drawing prosecution structures into politics. They denounced some colleagues who “failed the test of allegiance to the law, yielded to emotions and committed actions, incomatible with their professional status”.

Officers of the main foreign intelligence department of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry stated “their allegiance to Ukrainian people”. They adopted an address at their meeting, pointing to the need “for preventing an open confrontation and bloodshed”.

In the meantime, the center of activities shifted from Kiev to Severodonetsk, Lugansk Region, where a congress of eastern and southern regions of Ukraine is now in progress. Premier Viktor Yanukovich specially arrived in the Donetsk coal basin to participate in the forum. One of speakers already made a proposal on holding referendums in cities on confidence in authorities and creation of a new Ukrainian state in the form of a federal republic.

“Ukraine is in a state of emergency,” said speaker of the Donetsk regional legislative assembly Boris Kolesnikov. “We hoped for a peaceful solution of the conflict, but the parliamentary session held on Saturday showed that that was not the case.

“Therefore, we suggest that all the cities should hold referendums on confidence in authorities and creation of a new Ukrainian state in the form of a federal republic – the most democratic form of a state”.

The Ternopol regional legislative assembly called on the Ukrainian president and parliament to preserve the unity of all Ukrainian lands”, Tass learnt on Sunday at the press service of the legislative assembly. Deputies claimed that plans of establishing a Southeastern autonomy threaten “national security of the state”.

The headquarters of opposition leader Yushchenko “gives authorities for thoughts one or at the most – two days”. “The crisis state cannot go on in the country. Therefore, attempts to cut drastically the period of talks will be the main distinguishing feature of negotiations,” said head of the executive committee of the opposition “National Salvation Committee" Alexander Zinchenko. He did not reveal specific plans of the opposition.

More than 200 people – members of the Yabloko Party and the Union of Right-Wing Forces – picketed on Sunday the Ukrainian embassy in downtown Moscow. They came to the diplomatic mission with orange scarves, symbolizing support for Yushchenko and chanted slogans: “We are unbreakable.”

Representatives of the Labour Russia movement, headed by its leader Viktor Anpilov, also gathered near the embassy building. They spoke in support of premier Yanukovich.

KIEV, November 28 (Itar-Tass)