MOSCOW. April 10 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is unlikely to dismiss six judges from the Constitutional Court, as this could make the process occurring in the country illegal and his opponents might benefit from it, Director of the Effective Policy Foundation Gleb Pavlovsky said.

"Yushchenko may only dismiss the six judges appointed by him if there is evidence that the judges violated their oaths. Since there is no such information, it would be a move of unmotivated aggression towards yet another constitutional institution, which would weaken his political positions both inside the country and in Europe," he said, commenting on a number of media reports on Yushchenko's intention to block the work of the parliament by removing six judges from the Constitutional Court.

The existence of the strong shadow player - the presidential secretariat - should be taken into account when assessing the situation in the country, he said.

"We understand the motives and the strategy of Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, and the strategy of Yanukovych and the coalition, but there is a shadow player, a very strong one, which has its own project, whose strategy, I think, we do not quite understand. It is Yushchenko's entourage, which is concentrated in his secretariat, including secretariat chief Viktor Baloha and others," Pavlovsky said.

They are "very tough technocrats with absolutely no ideology whatsoever, whose strategy is different from that of Tymoshenko and Yanukovych," he said.

"They were the force which pushed Yushchenko to disband the Verkhovna Rada, it would not have been possible without them," Pavlovsky said.

This group may resort to the use of force, "as they are not so much concerned with the president's reputation as they are with the search for a successor, whose name would be neither Yanukovych nor Tymoshenko," he said.