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Свита короля. Часть 1: Кумовья-соратники президентаhttp://www.podrobnosti.ua/analytics/2005/07/07/225274.html07 июля 2005 14:50Алексей СахноПо материалам: ForUm, ProUA, Vlasti.net, Деловая Неделя, Зеркало Недели, Корреспондент, Независимая газета, Обозреватель, Общественная коммуникация, Полит.ру, Столичные Новости, Украина криминальная, Українська Правда, ЭкспертКороля делает свита. Кто сегодня

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Ющенко на днях підпише указ про введення ділової російської мови у східних регіонах України?http://www.sprotiv.kiev.ua/ [27.03.2005 17:47]Ющенко на днях підпише указ про введення ділової російської мови у регіонах України, де переважає російськомовне населення?Джерелом цієї інформації стали повідомлення співробітників деяких міністерства, де проект Указу Президента України начебто лежить на

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2004-12-24 13:21 http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5248501&startrow=1&date=2004-12-24&do_alert=0 MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti) - Opinion polls show that there are fewer supporters of democracy in Russia than in Ukraine. Ukrainians and Russians agree that Russians will not become more politically motivated in the foreseeable future, reported Vremya Novostei. According to

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Dec 23, 2004 Interview with Kateryna Yuschenko published in Vechirni Visti Ukrainian text follows Оранжева Україна очима Катерини Ющенко Ілона Богуш 12:51, 23 грудня 2004 // "Вечірні вісті" Дружина народного Президента збирається і надалі оздоровлювати дітей, опікуватися дитячими будинками, музеями і театрами Катерина Ющенко першою з дружин вітчизняних політиків вийшла з тіні свого відомого

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041223/wl_afp/ukrainevote.041223184813 KIEV (AFP) - Western observers deployed in Ukraine to monitor a presidential vote rerun this weekend as Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) again attacked the West's role and motives in the former Soviet republic. The candidate Putin supported in an earlier and now-discredited attempt to elect

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12/22/2004 14:21 http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/88/353/14750_.html This seems to be the first time Russian electronic system for counting paper ballots has had such major glitch. On December 19th Russia's Arkhangelsky region hosted local Legislative Assembly elections. Several other major coastal towns were also electing new leaders of administration as well as local delegates at around the

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December 22, 2004 OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR By MARTIN CRUZ SMITH http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/22/opinion/22cruzsmith.html OUTSIDE, a hard winter's afternoon settles on the village, but inside their cottage Nikolai and Nastia lay out a spread: apples from their orchard, pickles from their garden, mushrooms from the woods around and full glasses of samogon, otherwise known as Ukrainian moonshine.

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Dec 22 '04 http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/AFP/2004/12/22/689341 WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States will keep a close eye on Ukraine's rerun of its disputed presidential runoff election on Sunday, as Washington silently wishes for a victory of Western-leaning candidate Viktor Yushchenko in the former Soviet republic, analysts say. The United States has maintained the same position since the

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THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 22, 2004 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1103685619986&p=1006953079865 On December 26, the people of Ukraine will again go to the polls, in an election of vital international interest whose impact reaches far beyond that nation's borders. Ukraine is a nuclear power of 48 million people that occupies a key strategic position

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Updated 05:06am (Mla time) Dec 23, 2004 By Agence France-Presse http://news.inq7.net/world/index.php?index=1&story_id=22099 Tens of thousands of supporters of Ukraine's opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko massed Wednesday in the center of the capital in a fresh show of force to press demands that a repeat presidential election be conducted fairly unlike a discredited poll last month. "In the

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Editorial comment Published: December 23 2004 02:00 Last updated: December 23 2004 02:00 http://news.ft.com/cms/s/348bb902-5487-11d9-8280-00000e2511c8.html How Russia and the west react to Sunday's rerun presidential election in Ukraine - whichever way it goes - will set the tone for their wider relationship. Both Russia and the west should want at all costs to keep Ukraine together. Neither

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Nick Paton Walsh in Kiev Thursday December 23, 2004 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,15569,1378902,00.html More than 12,000 foreign election observers have been registered to monitor the Ukrainian presidential run-off on Boxing Day, the central election committee said yesterday. "These are all foreigners who will work on monitoring the vote according to their own plans,"

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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?ed20041223a1.htm EDITORIAL How far will the old order in Ukraine go to safeguard its privileges? News that opposition residential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned suggests that it is desperate indeed. Three months after the alleged poisoning, questions continue to mount about how Mr. Yushchenko ingested what should have been a fatal dose of

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ANALYSIS: By Ron Popeski, Reuters, Kiev, Ukraine, Dec 20, 2004 KIEV - Ukraine's Viktor Yushchenko may be the toast of Western capitals but he will have a tricky balance to maintain between the West and big neighbour Russia if, as expected, he wins the re-run of a rigged election next Sunday. The would-be president's call of "let's not miss the train for Europe" -- moving Ukraine into the

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Former millionaire businesswoman Yulia Tymoshenko has a talent for confrontation. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-tymoshenko20dec20,1,5236336.story?coll=la-headlines-world By David Holley, Times Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California, Monday, December 20, 2004 KIEV, Ukraine — Tensions over disputed presidential balloting were at a peak when Yulia

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Ukraine 's Opposition Leader Needs to Win Converts In Russian-Speaking Regions By Yaroslav Trofimov, Staff Reporter The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY, Mon, Dec 20, 2004 YALTA, Ukraine -- Pro-Western opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has a comfortable lead in the opinion polls ahead of Ukraine 's presidential election. But he still faces a

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Watching the uprising in Kiev takes me back to Tehran http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12532-2004Dec19.html COMMENTARY: By Roya Hakakian The Washington Post, Washington, D.C. Monday, December 20, 2004; Page A23 Everyone is serenading Kiev these days. "Magical" and "most valorous" were the words on the morning news. But in my mind, Kiev has never looked more like Tehran -- my

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The world should be alert on December 26, when Ukraine re-runs its election, and in the years to follow as the enemies of freedom try to undermine Ukraine's progress COMMENTARY: By Mikheil Saakashvili, President of Georgia Financial Times, London, UK, Monday, December 20 2004 For those of us who remained behind the iron curtain during Europe's

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OP-ED By Bohdan Koczor, Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois, Tue, 21 December 2004 I have a name. I also have a number. My parents gave me my name. It's a good Ukrainian name, and I have always been proud of it, and of my people. It wasn't always good to be a Ukrainian, however. I was just a teenager in western Ukraine when World War II broke out. The Soviets came claiming they would liberate us.

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Democracy is not an American plot http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15131-2004Dec20.html OP-ED By Michael McFaul, The Washington Post Washington, D.C. Tuesday, December 21, 2004; Page A25 Events in Ukraine have inspired most people living in the free world. Ukrainian democrats stood together in the freezing cold to demand from their government what we citizens of democracies

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Ukraine Opposition Leader Expected to Buoy Economy EUROPEAN BUSINESS NEWS By Poul Funder Larsen, Dow Jones Newswires The Wall Street Journal, NY, NY, Tue, December 21, 2004 KIEV, Ukraine -- Dressed in a dark business suit, Petro Poroshenko hardly looks the part of a revolutionary just back from the barricades. Only a bright orange shirt betrays that this Ukrainian entrepreneur

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By Tom Warner in Sevastopol, Financial Times London, UK, Tuesday, December 21 2004 SEVASTOPOL - Viktor Yanukovich, Ukrainian prime minister, yesterday positioned himself as radically anti-western, accusing Leonid Kuchma, the outgoing president who supported him in last month's failed election, of betraying him and Ukraine to foreign interests. Speaking in a televised debate ahead of fresh

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IN TV DEBATE AHEAD OF SUNDAY'S RERUN PRESIDENTIAL VOTE Agence France Presse (AFP), Kiev, Ukraine, Mon, Dec 20, 2004 KIEV (AFP) - Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko hammered his presidential rival for stealing votes as the two men faced off during their sole televised debate days ahead of a historic re-run election. "There is one reason why we are here -- the election of November 21

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Askold Krushelnycky in Kiev, The Independent London, United Kingdom; Tuesday, Dec 21, 2004 KIEV - UKRAINE'S BITTER presidential rivals clashed last night on live television in their first face-to-face encounter since the massive street protests that propelled the country into the international spotlight and overturned the election result. The eagerly awaited debate lived up to its billing as the

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UKRAINE HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED BY THE POLITICAL TURMOIL OF RECENT MONTHS If Viktor Yushchenko does win the presidency in next week's rerun election he faces huge challenges, write Stefan Wagstyl and Tom Warner By Stefan Wagstyl and Tom Warner Financial Times, London, UK, Tue, December 21 2004 Viktor Yanukovich, Ukraine's prime minister, and Viktor Yushchenko, the opposition leader, last night

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by Tom Warner in Sevastopol Financial Times, 20 December 2004 http://news.ft.com/cms/s/acbf0e2c-52b8-11d9-8845-00000e2511c8.html The contenders in this Sunday's Ukrainian presidential election faced each other head-to-head in their first open debate on Monday night in an emotional exchange in which Viktor Yanukovich, prime minister, and opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, fired accusations at

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by Peter Byrne Kyiv Post, 20 December 2004 Hryhoriy Omelchenko, a ranking State Secret Services (SBU) officer and a deputy belonging to Yulia Tymoshenko's eponymous parliament faction on Dec. 19 asked the presidents of Russia and Ukraine to stop supplying weapons to gangs supporting Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Omelchenko spoke in Russian during the Dec. 19 address, which was aired live on

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19 December 2004 [translated by BBC Monitoring] The following is an excerpt from Omelchenko's interview with private Era TV broadcast via the Ukrainian state-owned television UT1 on 19 December, monitored in progress: (Omelchenko) I have information from reliable sources, to be absolutely frank, from an FSB (Russian intelligence) officer. I have known him since the early 1990s. The second piece

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by Konrad Schuller Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 20 November 2004 [translated by Nykolai Bilaniuk for UKL] During the night from the 27th to the 28th of November, Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior troops were supposed to suppress the Demonstration in Kyiv. KYIV, 19 December. Lodgers have nested themselves in the late-Soviet lobby of the Trade Union building at Independence Square. To the

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By Carol Devine-Molin (12/21/04) http://www.americandaily.com/article/6085 President Vladimir Putin is now viewed as an enigma by most Americans. Oh, what a difference a few years can make in this rapidly changing geopolitical landscape! When President Bush first met with Russian President Putin in 2001, Bush was tremendously impressed with him – Bush stated: “I looked the man in the eye. I was

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By Jan Cienski in Kiev Published: December 20 2004 18:03 Last updated: December 20 2004 18:03 http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c104ac96-52b0-11d9-8845-00000e2511c8.html Ukraine's December 26 rerun of its presidential election promises to be one of the most closely monitored votes ever, with 8,295 election observers already registered to make sure that the fraud that accompanied the November 21 vote is

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Anatol Lieven International Herald Tribune Tuesday, December 21, 2004 http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/20/opinion/edlieven.htmlWASHINGTON There is a right reason and a wrong reason for the West to support the camp of the presidential challenger Viktor Yushchenko in Ukraine, just as there is a right way and a wrong way to set about integrating Ukraine into the West. The right reason for

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COMMENTARY: by George Packer The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker magazine New York, NY, Issue of December 20, 2004 http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?041220ta_talk_packer President Bush has put the idea of spreading democracy around the world at the rhetorical heart of American foreign policy. No one should doubt that he and his surviving senior advisers believe in what they call the “

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Ukraine's Opposition Leader Needs to Win Converts In Russian-Speaking Regions By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV Wall Street Journal, 20 December 2004 YALTA, Ukraine -- Pro-Western opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has a comfortable lead in the opinion polls ahead of Ukraine's presidential election. But he still faces a formidable task even if he wins on Dec. 26: reassuring the country's Russian speakers

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From the December 27, 2004 issue: by Anders ?slund 12/27/2004, Volume 010, Issue 15 http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=5053&R=A103391D0 Donetsk, Ukraine ON THE FIFTEENTH DAY of Ukraine's orange revolution, I arrived in Kiev. My car got stuck in a traffic jam caused by a demonstration at the parliament. I abandoned the car and joined the rally. The

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December 22, 2004 LETTER FROM EUROPE By STEVEN LEE MYERS http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/22/international/europe/22letter.html KIEV, Ukraine, Dec. 21 - Ukraine's "orange revolution" was either a mass outpouring of popular will or the collapse of an enfeebled authoritarian power. Or maybe it was the political and judicial maturation of a teenage democracy. Or it was a Western plot concocted in

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Volume 74, Number 33 December 22 - 28, 2004 http://www.thevillager.com/villager_86/ukrainianstrainhopefully.html By Justin Rocket Silverman Wanted: Men and women in good health to travel in politically turbulent nation of Ukraine for purpose of election monitoring. Participants will be responsible for their own airfare, as well as personal housing and food costs. Ground transportation deep

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Volume 74, Number 32 December 15 - 21, 2004 http://www.thevillager.com/villager_85/eastvillagegoesorange.html By Justin Rocket Silverman Villager photos by Anna Sawaryn At Kurowycky butcher shop on First Ave., an orange ribbon hangs above a popular shopping bag, which reads: “I believe. I know. We can. Yes. Yushchenko.” The line at the Self Reliance Federal Credit Union in the East

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By Askold Krushelnycky in Kiev 22 December 2004 http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=595343 Fears are mounting that Boxing Day elections in Ukraine will be wrecked by an orchestrated campaign of violence after reports that pro-government "thugs" were being supplied with weaponry from a Russian naval base in Crimea. Hryhoriy Omelchenko, an opposition MP, claims to have evidence

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By Ira Straus Friday, December 17, 2004 http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/printStoryId.aspx?StoryId=4300 From President Putin on down, Russians have reacted with outrage at recent events in Ukraine. Ira Strauss takes a closer look at the current hysteria over alleged foreign conspiracies aimed at Russian interests. He finds that Russians need to overcome their paranoia — and offers a few

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By Simon Kuper Published: December 17 2004 20:58 Last updated: December 17 2004 20:58 http://news.ft.com/cms/s/01c3dfec-506b-11d9-b551-00000e2511c8.html When I visited Ukraine in 1992, I ate every day in the canteen of Dynamo Kiev football club. It was one of the only restaurants in Kiev. Admittedly it was lacking in Michelin stars: when the club president's secretary passed through one day

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STATEMENT: U.S. Congressman Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI) Representing the 12th Congressional District of Michigan Conference On "Ukraine's Choice: Europe or Russia?" The New Atlantic Initiative of the American Enterprise Institute Washington, D.C., Friday, December 10, 2004 INTRODUCTION Thank you for inviting me to join you today. When I first received the invitation last week, I approached it with

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17/12/2004 http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/041217084454.j2sif4wf EU leaders hope to reinforce their relations with Ukraine after next week's rerun presidential vote, which must be free and fair, according to a draft text Friday of their conclusions at a Brussels summit. The European Union, which sent mediators to help resolve a crisis caused by mass street protests over a flawed November 21

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for U.S. Government Funds Funneled to Back Yushchenko-Led 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, Despite Official White House Denials http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/12-16-2004/0002636908&EDATE WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Rising concerns over an estimated $65 million in U.S. taxpayer money used to influence the outcome of the Ukrainian presidential

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Jeremy Page December 18, 2004 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11720359%255E2703,00.html MEDICAL experts have identified the type of dioxin used to poison Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko in a significant breakthrough in his efforts to pinpoint the culprit. Mr Yushchenko has forbidden them from revealing the results to avoid influencing the repeat of his

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http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041217-070555-7473r.htm Kiev, Ukraine, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The extent of an apparent plot to poison Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine's opposition leader, and then cover up the evidence now reaches across Europe. Yushchenko, who said he was poisoned with dioxin at a dinner with Ukraine's secret police, was found to have ingested 6,000 times the level of dioxin

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The religious dimensions to Ukraine's protests and passions. http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110006041 BY ADRIAN KARATNYCKY Friday, December 17, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST Ukraine's Orange Revolution (named for the color adopted by the country's reformist opposition), is a broad-based movement that brought millions of citizens into the streets to press for free and fair elections. Now it is

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By MARTA DYCZOK December 17, 2004 http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB110323736951402615-IRje4NmlaJ3mpyqa3qHbayJm4,00.html KIEV -- Once again, Ukrainians are preparing to go to the polls to elect a new president. But this time, on Dec. 26, they have something that was lacking in the previous two rounds of voting: a relatively independent media. Four days into the Orange Revolution,

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BY DICK MORRIS http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/36541.htm December 16, 2004 -- So very much hangs in the balance when Ukraine goes back to the polls to vote for a president on Dec. 26. It would be a major blow for freedom, and a wonderful Christmas present to the world, if Viktor Yushchenko - and the runoff, before the government stole both - becomes president of this key nation

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/12/16/92346.shtml Top political consultant Dick Morris, who worked on the campaign would-be Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko, revealed this week that he was offered a bribe from supporters of Yushchenko's Kremlin-backed opponent, Viktor Yanukovich. "I got an email on Friday from a former Republican congressman who said he was passing on an offer from

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4098945.stm Tests show the level of poison in the blood of Ukraine's Viktor Yushchenko is more than 6,000 times higher than normal, an academic has said. Prof Abraham Brouwer at the Free University in Amsterdam, who carried out the tests, said it was the second highest level ever recorded in humans. The presidential candidate, who faces PM Viktor Yanukovych in

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Thursday, December 16, 2004 http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/12/16/008-print.html By Boris Kagarlitsky The state-run television channels were in hysterics reminiscent of the Cold War. Bewildered viewers discovered that next door in Ukraine, a coup was under way, allegedly planned by foreign secret service agents. The goal of these enemies, state television reported, was to bring a

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The Ukrainian revolution and the renaissance of democracy. BY CLAUDIA ROSETT Wednesday, December 15, 2004 12:01 a.m. http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/?id=110006028 Orange, rose, yellow. These are the colors not just of sunrise, but of a few of the many "people power" revolutions that over the past generation have been by increments changing the world. Yellow was the Philippines

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Politics: Winning in the Streets http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/printme.php3?eid=59288 by Geov Parrish While disgruntled Kerry supporters are still muttering about Ohio recounts, touch-screen voting machines, and all manner of perceived electoral corruption, and while Democrats of all stripes still fume over the stolen election of 2000, the chosen course of action has been to do nothing.

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Experts seek clues to aid probe into Ukraine candidate's poisoning The Associated Press http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6697752/ Updated: 8:42 a.m. ET Dec. 15, 2004 LONDON - New tests reveal the level of dioxin in the blood of Ukrainian presidential candidate Victor Yushchenko is more than 6,000 times higher than normal, according to the expert analyzing the samples. The concentration, about

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Opposition leader says his opponent is planning 'provocations' The Associated Press Updated: 9:12 a.m. ET Dec. 16, 2004 KIEV, Ukraine - Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko charged Thursday that his opponent was planning provocations that could jeopardize the presidential vote scheduled at the end of December. Yushchenko did not say what kind of provocations, but said they were being planned

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December 12, 2004 EAST VILLAGE http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/nyregion/thecity/12ukra.html?fta=y By JENNIFER BLEYER t the Ukrainian National Home on lower Second Avenue, the auditorium was so saturated with orange on Wednesday that it looked as if Halloween had come late this year. There were orange balloons and orange tablecloths. Women wore orange scarves, and men donned bright orange

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December 15, 2004 By SCOTT SHANE http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/international/europe/15poison.html?ex=1103691600&en=14c2548690293669&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 - With speculation running rampant in Ukraine over who was behind the mysterious dioxin poisoning of the presidential candidate Viktor A. Yushchenko, the use of poisons as a sinister tool of statecraft has again

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December 15, 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/opinion/15kristof.html?ex=1103691600&en=8a643837f29861d9&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1 By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF OP-ED COLUMNIST IGA, Latvia — In these long winter nights, a headless horseman is roaming Russia's "near abroad," threatening independent countries and raising fears of a renewed cold war. This specter is Vladimir Putin. Let's hope he

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by Judy Dempsey International Herald Tribune, 12 December 2004 Kiev-During the huge antigovernment demonstrations that engulfed Independence Square here over the past two weeks, tens of thousands of protesters were bombarded with information.Some of it consisted of factual fliers telling people how they could obtain free accommodation, transport or a hot meal. Others gave information about the

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Doctors as detectives by Michael Frank S?ddeutsche Zeitung, 13 December 2004 www.sueddeutsche.de/ausland/artikel/559/44515 [translated by Julia L?tsch for UKL] Threats, intrigues, political pressure: How Vienna doctors nonetheless came up with clear results. In the end, the Ukrainian national anthem was sung. With this, a choir from L'viv, which had come to Vienna to participate in a singers'

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Tuesday, December 14, 2004 Posted: 4:09 AM EST (0909 GMT) http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/12/14/ukraine.yushchenko/ (CNN) -- The chief of staff to Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko says he was warned more than four months ago that the politician's life could be in danger. Former Secret Service police officers told him in late July "that they would try to get rid of or 'take

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By Richard Holbrooke Tuesday, December 14, 2004; Page A27 washingtonpost.com There is little doubt that Yushchenko will soon be president. Any attempt by the government to declare his opponent, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, the winner would result in overwhelming demonstrations, national paralysis and, possibly, civil war. But that catastrophic outcome is far less likely than was once feared

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December 10, 2004 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/europe/july-dec04/ukraine_12-10.html JIM LEHRER: And now Ray Suarez has our Ukraine story. RAY SUAREZ: The barricades are down, the posters rolled up, and most of the thousands of demonstrators who had gathered in Kiev's Independence Square have dispersed. But a few diehard supporters of Ukraine's opposition leader, Viktor Yuschchenko, lingered in

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By STEVE GUTTERMAN Associated Press Writer http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-russia-poison-problem,0,6892127.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines December 14, 2004, 2:21 PM EST MOSCOW -- In the bloodstained post-Soviet period, feuds over money and power have often been solved by bullets or bombs. But confirmation that Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was

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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. If this story sounds like the plot from a John (UNINTELLIGIBLE) novel, you're right except this is real. A Ukrainian presidential candidate, the one not backed by Russia's leader Vladimir Putin was poisoned as he ran for president. By whom we don't know but the intrigue grows by the day. Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Richard Holbrooke has just returned

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By Stefan Wagstyl, Chrystia Freeland and Tom Warner Published: December 13 2004 20:45 Last updated: December 13 2004 20:45 http://news.ft.com/cms/s/46681994-4d44-11d9-b3be-00000e2511c8.html The Ukrainian authorities came close to resorting to violence in trying to solve the country's political crisis. The Financial Times has learned that the administration of Leonid Kuchma, the authoritarian

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By Tod Lindberg http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20041213-084741-4200r.htm The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is first and foremost the property of the people who are conducting it. They turned out in the streets of Kiev by the hundreds of thousands to protest fraudulent election results, and their persistence and numbers opened up enough cracks in the system to pave the way for a new vote on Dec.

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It's Official - Yuschenko Poisoned by Dioxon

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By Con Coughlin in Kiev December 6, 2004 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/12/05/1102182160895.html?oneclick=true Viktor Yushchenko is the face of Ukraine's "orange revolution". And it is not a face he is proud of. The man who was once described as the Bill Clinton of eastern Europe for his charisma and good looks is now horribly disfigured by an attempt to poison him during the political

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December 08, 2004 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1393172_2,00.html From Jeremy Page in Kiev Doctors at the Austrian clinic that treated Ukraine’s opposition leader confirm there was a plot to kill him MEDICAL experts have confirmed that Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine’s opposition leader, was poisoned in an attempt on his life during election campaigning, the doctor who supervised his

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By Askold Krushelnycky in Kiev 06 December 2004 http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=590117 Ukraine's embattled government is ready to stage faked terrorist attacks to destabilise the country and discredit the opposition ahead of a rerun of the presidential vote, a senior government source has told The Independent. The official, who works for the government of the Moscow-backed

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People Power: Unlikely Democrat Leads the Charge In Ukraine's Revolt --- At Pivotal Moment in History, A Former `Oligarch' Takes To the Barricades in Kiev --- Jail Hardens Ms. TymoshenkoBy Yaroslav Trofimov2,221 words6 December 2004The Wall Street JournalA1English(Copyright (c) 2004, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)KIEV, Ukraine -- Yulia Tymoshenko climbed atop the stage, her blond hair braided in

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34782-2004Dec4.html By Myroslava Antonovych Sunday, December 5, 2004; Page B01 KIEV Ever since my childhood, first in the Dnipropetrovsk region of eastern Ukraine and later in the Lviv region of the west, I have dreamed about a miracle -- although back then I did not realize what shape my dream might eventually take. My recurrent vision was of a time

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Nation & World Ukraine's suddenly assertive democracy movement has been years in the making By Masha Gessen http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/041213/usnews/13ukraine.htm Two weeks ago, who would have thought of orange as a revolutionary color and chestnuts as a symbol of democracy? For most casual observers, orange-clad supporters of the Ukrainian democracy movement who flooded the streets of

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By Charles Krauthammer Friday, December 3, 2004; Page A27 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30184-2004Dec2.html There has been general back-patting in the West about renewed European-American comity during the Ukrainian crisis. Both the United States and Europe have been doing exactly the right thing: rejecting a fraudulent election run by a corrupt oligarchy and insisting on a new

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Posted on Sat, Dec. 04, 2004 YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/breaking_news/10341340.htm KHARKIV, Ukraine - The governor of Ukraine's Kharkiv region called on both candidates to bow out of the Dec. 26 presidential revote. Other leaders in Russian-speaking eastern and southern Ukraine condemned the Supreme Court decision calling for the new runoff and

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By Sebastian Alison Reuters Updated: 7:55 a.m. ET Dec. 3, 2004 BRUSSELS - The European Union's mediation in Ukraine's political crisis has made it a foreign policy actor in territory long regarded by Russia as its own backyard and Moscow has no choice but to accept it, analysts say. The EU's eastward expansion in May to the borders of the former Soviet Union sharpened tensions between Moscow

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The very notion that Ukraine would turn into a Western outpost on Russia's southern flank is a nightmare for Russia's ruling elite By Richard Pipes Newsweek International Dec. 6 issue - The dramatic events unfolding since Ukraine's presidential election can be understood only by taking into account both Russia's imperial ambitions and its neighbor's split identity. Russians have always been

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Protesters in Ukraine sang a new anthem: Vstavay! Rise up! But Moscow didn't like it, and some warn of a new Cold War. Shades of 1989? By Michael Meyer Newsweek International Dec. 6 issue - It's hard to escape the echo of 1989, the year the Berlin wall fell and oppressed peoples rose up to unseat communist dictators across Eastern Europe. And so it seemed last week in Ukraine, where hundreds

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http://maidan.org.ua/static/news/1102095155.html Текст постанови Верховного суду Заслухавши пояснення сторін, які беруть участь у справі й, дослідивши інші докази, суд вважає, що скарга підлягає частковому задоволенню на наступних підставах. 21 листопада 2004 року проведене повторне голосування виборів президента. ЦВК 24 листопада склала протокол про результати повторного голосування й

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Let My People Go By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: December 4, 2004 The Orange Revolution http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/04/opinion/04kristof.html KIEV, Ukraine — Here's a suggestion for President Bush from the protesters behind the democratic "orange revolution" here: Wear an orange tie. "If he wore an orange tie, people here would be crying," said Yuri Maluta, a protester from Lviv. "It

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EDITORIAL Published: December 4, 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/04/opinion/04sat2.html?oref=login Ukraine's Supreme Court made a courageous decision yesterday in calling for a second runoff election by Dec. 26. Now all parties should let Ukrainians make their choice fairly. That is especially incumbent on President Vladimir Putin of Russia, who, apparently forgetting that he's no longer in

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http://maidan.org.ua/static/news/1102090850.html «Якщо земля моя замерзне, я зігрію її» – ці рядки написані молодим українським поетом у 70-ті роки минулого сторіччя… А в ці дні, в ці години сотні тисяч юнаків та дівчат, чоловіків та жінок своїми душами та тілами зігрівають землю України: на Майдані Незалежності – в серці нашої країни і на площах десятків інших українських міст. Сьогодні наша

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http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/12/03/news/sick.html By Elisabeth Rosenthal International Herald Tribune Saturday, December 4, 2004VIENNA When the once-strapping, telegenic man was wheeled in through the sliding glass doors of the plush Rudolfinerhaus Hospital in early September, he was suddenly and severely ill, conscious but

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OP-ED: By Masha Lipman, The Washington Post Washington, D.C., Wednesday, December 1, 2004; Page A25 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23724-2004Nov30.html MOSCOW -- "I feel jealous and proud because I am standing amongst these peaceful and free people," wrote a journalist covering Ukraine's surging democracy movement. "I feel the ecstasy of revolution mixed with burning jealousy,

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POLL BY RAZUMKOV CENTER: ON FRESH RUNOFF VOTE ON PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Ukrainian News Agency, Kiev, Ukraine, December 1, 2004 (14:44) KYIV - According to the public opinion poll held by the Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Studies named after Oleksandr Razumkov, 47.8% of the poll participants are ready to support the candidacy of Our Ukraine coalition leader Viktor Yuschenko, and 36%

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Members of the former East German opposition and democratic movement support the Orange Revolution To the opposition and democratic movement in the Ukraine Dear friends, With enthusiasm we view your courageous struggle for a free and democratic future in the Ukraine. We highly respect the millions of people of the Ukrainian nation who overcame fear and through the civil resistance defend their

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Rada Sacks Prime Minister The Parliament of Ukraine, or Verkhovna Rada, passed a vote of no-confidence Wednesday afternoon, bringing down Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's government. With 229 MPs in favor, the simple majority no-confidence vote forces President Leonid Kuchma to put into place a caretaker government. It is unclear who will lead the body during the current political crisis.

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OP-ED by Anders Aslund The Action Ukraine Report Washington, D.C., Tue, November 30, 2004 At present, it seems as if the Supreme court of Ukraine will soon judge the second round of the elections invalid, after which the parliament will appoint a new Central Election Committee and set a date or the renewed second round, probably December 19. Many issues remain open, such as how much of the

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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/12/02/001.html By Oksana Yablokova Staff Writer Efrem Lukatsky / AP Opposition deputies celebrating after parliament passed a no-confidence vote in the government Wednesday, bringing down Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and his Cabinet. KIEV -- The Ukrainian parliament passed a vote of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister

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Thursday, December 2, 2004. Page 1. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/12/02/002.html By Francesca Mereu Staff Writer In a dramatic shift, the political and business elites close to outgoing Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma are changing horses in midstream and looking for a new candidate to take on opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko in what they hope will be an entirely new election.

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OP-ED By Yuliya Tymoshenko Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem, Israel, Mon, Nov 29, 2004 Daily Times, Pakistan, Thu, November 25, 2004 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_26-11-2004_pg3_7 The old axioms are true: Firmness can pay; resolution can see you through. We who are struggling to maintain our democracy in Ukraine believe this. Now more than ever we must believe this, for Russian

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By Zbigniew Brzezinski 1,129 words 1 December 2004 The Wall Street Journal Europe A6 English While it is premature to predict the outcome of the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, it is not too early to assess the stakes involved, to identify its initial losers and winners, and to reflect on its broader policy implications for the U.S. and the European Union. The stakes are enormous and they go far

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Created: 01.12.2004 16:43 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 18:48 MSK, 12 hours 30 minutes ago Ilya Zhegulev Gazeta.Ru http://www.mosnews.com/interview/2004/12/01/ukrgang.shtml Ukraine’s opposition will insist on an international probe into the alleged involvement of several high-placed Russian nationals in election rigging in Ukraine, Yuri Karmazin, an opposition MP and Viktor Yushchenko’s envoy to the

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Created: 01.12.2004 18:22 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 18:22 MSK, 12 hours 54 minutes ago http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/12/01/brzezinski.shtml MosNews The Ukraine crisis is representative of Russia’s true intentions and puts the future of democracy in Eastern Europe at stake, according to former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and former secretary of state Henry Kissinger. “If

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By Anne Applebaum Wednesday, December 1, 2004; Page A25 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A23721-2004Nov30 Just in case anyone actually thought that all of those people waving flags on the streets of Kiev represent authentic Ukrainian sentiments, the London Guardian informed its readers otherwise last week. In an article titled "US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev," the newspaper

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Chris Stephen in Kiev 1 December 2004 Irish Times c) 2004, The Irish Times. UKRAINE: As tension builds over Ukraine's disputed elections, opposition paramilitary units yesterday made their first appearance on the streets of the capital Kiev. Outside parliament, a unit of 100 men, dressed in military uniforms but without weapons, deployed among demonstrators. Hours earlier, a second unit, the

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UKRAINE-KUCHMA Dec-1-2004 (660 words) xxxi http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0406584.htm By Catholic News Service KIEV, Ukraine (CNS) -- A Catholic cardinal and bishop joined other church leaders in urging Ukraine's outgoing president to take action against government officials who falsified results of the recent presidential election. "When the president does not fulfill his

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http://www.tol.cz/look/TOL/printf.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=92& NrSection=1&NrArticle=13122&ST1=ad&ST_T1=job&ST_AS1=1&ST2=body&ST_T2= letter&ST_AS2=1&ST3=text&ST_T3=aatol&ST_AS3=1&ST_max=3 by Jakub Jedras 29 November 2004 There's no doubt whom Poland's politicians, media, and people are supporting in Ukraine. WARSAW, Poland--Thousands of Poles are on the streets decked out in

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