KIEV, Feb. 4 ??“ Parliament may alleviate political crisis in Ukraine by allowing judges to assume their duties at the Constitutional Court within the next seven days, Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn said Saturday.

The crisis was triggered Jan. 10, when Parliament led by opposition groups, had voted to dismiss the government of Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov. President Viktor Yushchenko and Yekhanurov called the vote illegal and refused to accept it.