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- -11-28-04 East-West Conflict over the Ukraine (Christian Science Monitor)
"Russian and Western leaders are sharply at odds over the election crisis that's bringing huge crowds to the streets of Kiev."
"Supporters of pro-Western candidate Viktor Yushchenko - who allege the presidency was stolen through electoral fraud by the Kremlin-backed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich - and the phalanx of riot police they confront may be, in a sense, proxies for much larger global forces."
"Each side may be primed to see the outcome of Ukraine's domestic tug of war as a global win or loss, rather than just a stage in a troubled post-Soviet country's development, experts say."
"Some Western experts suggest the US and EU might also do well to back off a bit and develop an evolutionary strategy for helping Ukraine." 11-04
- Ukraine (U.S. State Department)
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- -11-27-04 Ukraine Parliament Rejects Vote (Bloomberg.com)
"Ukraine's parliament rejected the Nov. 21 presidential election results, saying they didn't 'fully reflect people's will,' and accused the government of a 'massive violation of law.' ''
"Parliament, also known as Verkhovna Rada, asked President Leonid Kuchma to declare the results void. The members asked Kuchma as well to fire the election committee and provide new committee candidates by Dec. 1. A total of 307 of 450 lawmakers supported all the resolutions passed today in a final vote."
"Government and opposition leaders, facing nationwide demonstrations, agreed yesterday to try to negotiate a resolution after European Union leaders intervened. Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana met with Kuchma, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, and challenger Viktor Yushchenko."
"Parliament will vote on Nov. 30 to change the election law to remove the most typical forms of vote fraud, such as multiple votes with absentee certificates, lawmaker Yuriy Kostenko said in an interview with Novy kanal television. The parliament will at the same time also try to set a date for a new presidential vote, most likely Dec. 12, he said." 11-04
- -11-28-04 Ukraine Questions and Answers (BBC News)
"The election appears to be causing East-West friction."
"Moscow - which dominated Ukraine in Soviet times - has played a significant role in the election, with President Putin publicly backing Mr Yanukovych."
"Mr Putin rushed to congratulate the Ukrainian prime minister 'on the basis of exit polls' and his country has accused the West - especially the EU - of inciting violence by calling the election fraudulent."
"The US criticised Russia for congratulating Mr Yanukovych before the final result was declared."
"It also rejected the official result, saying 'credible' reports of fraud had to be investigated.'' 11-04
- -11-28-04 Ukraine - A Threat to Split (Guardian Unlimited)
"Ukraine's electoral crisis threatened to split the country in two last night when leaders in the east voted to hold a referendum on regional autonomy, as the government ruled out the use of force to solve the week-long standoff."
The Donetsk regional council voted 164-1 to hold the referendum this coming Sunday on giving the region the status of a republic within Ukraine. "' 11-04
- -01-20-05 Yushchenko Declared New President of the Ukraine (MSNBC News)
"The Ukrainian parliament voted Thursday to hold President-elect Viktor Yushchenko’s inauguration this Sunday, capping a months-long presidential election marked by fraud allegations, mass street protests and multiple Supreme Court appeals." 1-05
- Rulers by Country - S-U (Schulz)
Provides a list of leaders by country and date. Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Sáo Tomé and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand (Siam), Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Uruguay, Uzbekhistan. leaders, rulers, Presidents, and Prime Ministers 9-00
- -12-03-04 Ukrainian Court Nullifies Election Results (Bloomberg.com)
"Ukraine's Supreme Court threw out the results of last month's presidential election that showed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych beat Viktor Yushchenko, and called for a new runoff to be held no later than Dec. 26." 12-04
- Editorial: Reform Needed in Voting Security (CommonDreams.org)
"On December 4, 2000, in time to change the outcome of the Electoral College vote, Greg Palast published an article in Salon.com, made into a BBC television documentary shortly thereafter, that laid out solid evidence of massive electoral fraud in Florida, perpetrated against the majority-Democratic-voting African American community by Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush. Without this fraud, Gore would have easily carried the state."
"Ironically, the Democratic Party knows how to highlight election fraud and start national movements to bring down administrations that try to steal elections. A Party-affiliated group has helped do it four times in the past four years."
"But not in Ohio, Florida, or anywhere else in the USA."
"Instead, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (Madeleine K. Albright, Chairman) has joined up with a similar organization affiliated with the Republican Party (the International Republican Institute - John McCain, Chairman), other NGOs, and US government agencies to support the use of exit polls and statistical analyses to challenge national elections in Ukraine, Serbia, Belarus, and the former Soviet republic of Georgia."
"In three of those four nations they succeeded in not only mounting a national challenge, but in reversing the outcomes of elections."
"The election reversals were accomplished by funding local groups - most made up of a core of activists and college students - who worked to topple regimes that had rigged their own re-elections." 12-04
- Editorial: U.S. Campaign in Kiev (Guardian Unlimited - Traynor)
"Ukraine, traditionally passive in its politics, has been mobilised by the young democracy activists and will never be the same again."
"But while the gains of the orange-bedecked 'chestnut revolution' are Ukraine's, the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing that, in four countries in four years, has been used to try to salvage rigged elections and topple unsavoury regimes."
"Funded and organised by the US government, deploying US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organisations, the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box."
"Richard Miles, the US ambassador in Belgrade, played a key role. And by last year, as US ambassador in Tbilisi, he repeated the trick in Georgia, coaching Mikhail Saakashvili in how to bring down Eduard Shevardnadze." 12-04
- Exit Polls - Accurate or Unreliable in 2004? (InTheseTimes.com)
"Exit polls are highly accurate. They remove most of the sources of potential polling error by identifying actual voters and asking them immediately afterward who they had voted for."
"The reliability of exit polls is so generally accepted that the Bush administration helped pay for them during recent elections in Georgia, Belarus and Ukraine." 2-05
- -01-02-06 Russian-Ukrain Conflict on Gas Affects Europe (CNN News)
"A move by Russia's state-owned natural gas monopoly Gazprom to suspend supplies to Ukraine has sparked a war of words between the two countries and disrupted gas flows to other parts of Europe." 12-05
- Russia's Transformation from Friend to Foe of America (MSNBC News)
"Instead, Putin is fast becoming the self-styled architect of an 'alternative pole of power' to the United States. Abroad, he has forged alliances with pariah states. At home, he has become something very close to an autocrat, creating puppet opposition parties, cracking down on dissidents and strangling media freedom."
"What changed? How did Putin go from Bush's friend and ally to being an assertive nationalist, befriending and arming America's enemies? To hear the Russians tell it, it's the United States's fault. Putin's trust was betrayed by Washington, says Georgy Arbatov, former head of the Duma's Defense Committee. First, the United States ignored Russian objections to invading Iraq, then it encroached on Russia's traditional sphere of influence in the Baltics, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Ukraine." 07-07
- -08-11-08 McCain's Statement on Russia's Aggression (Time.com)
McCain: " 'The implications of Russian actions go beyond their threat to the territorial integrity and independence of a democratic Georgia. Russia is using violence against Georgia, in part, to intimidate other neighbors – such as Ukraine – for choosing to associate with the West and adhering to Western political and economic values. As such, the fate of Georgia should be of grave concern to Americans and all people who welcomed the end of a divided of Europe, and the independence of former Soviet republics. The international response to this crisis will determine how Russia manages its relationships with other neighbors. We have other important strategic interests at stake in Georgia, especially the continued flow of oil through the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which Russia attempted to bomb in recent days; the operation of a critical communication and trade route from Georgia through Azerbaijan and Central Asia; and the integrity and influence of NATO, whose members reaffirmed last April the territorial integrity, independence, and sovereignty of Georgia.' " 08-08
- -09-03-08 West Mulls Options in Georgia-Russia Crisis (CBS News)
"The notion of an Atlantic alliance with its hands tied has only gained steam since the Russia-Georgia conflict was touched off earlier this month. After Georgian soldiers moved to end a decades-old territorial dispute by attempting to take back the breakaway enclaves of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Russian troops pounced on Georgia – where they remain in reduced numbers today."
"Earlier this week, Russia recognized the two regions as independent, further stoking international condemnation and feeding the fears of countries like Ukraine and Poland, an EU member, still mindful of Soviet domination." 09-08
- -01-07-09 Europeans Suffer as Russia Cuts Gas Shipments (MSNBC News)
"Russia shut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine on Wednesday — leaving more than a dozen countries scrambling to cope during a winter cold snap. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly endorsed the move and urged that international observers be brought into the energy dispute." 01-09
- -01-23-09 Why Europe Needs Russian Oil (Time.com)
"Moscow sent a chilly reminder, over the New Year, of the urgency behind Europe's quest to wean itself off a dependence on Russian natural gas. Millions of Germans, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Moldovans and Italians were left without heat for a week in sub-zero temperatures, as a result of a commercial dispute between Russia and Ukraine — Moscow had turned off the gas supply piped across the vast former Soviet Republic, hoping to turn up the heat on the Western-aligned government in Kiev by turning off the heat in Europe. Restarting the flow required urgent diplomatic shuttling by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European leaders. But as much as the episode highlighted the problem of depending on energy supplies from an increasingly churlish Russia, finding alternative supply sources will be far from simple." 01-09
- -09-17-09 President Obama Shelves U.S. Missile Shield (Time.com)
"President Obama's decision to shelve plans to station U.S. missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic is being portrayed as a pragmatic response to the threat of Iranian nuclear missiles. In confirming the move on Thursday, Obama said the U.S. wants to focus instead on deploying "technologies that are proven and cost-effective and that counter the current threat" — that is, Iran's medium-range missiles rather than any intercontinental ballistic missiles Iran could possibly develop."
"Meanwhile, Obama's decision will surely raise alarms in the corridors of power in Ukraine, Georgia and other NATO-inclined countries in the former Soviet bloc, who saw the battle over the missile shield as a litmus test of Obama's willingness to stand up to Russia's efforts to re-establish its hegemony in its post–World War II sphere of influence." 09-09
- Europe - Travel Information by Location (Excite.Travel.com)
Provides information on dining, where to stay, and interesting things to see. Search by city, state, or country. Includes Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Holy See, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, and Wales. 3-02
- Ukrainian Translation of Web Pages - English Instructions (LogoMedia.com)
Provides online translations of Web Pages that you select. To view the Web through the Awesome Library, put the URL of the Awesome Library (http://www.awesomelibrary.org/) in the URL box, select "English to Ukrainian," and then select Translate. 7-02
- Ukrainian Version of Google Search Engine (Google.com)
Provides searches of the Web in Ukrainian. 7-02
- -11-27-04 Yushchenko Demands Voting Reform (MSNBC News)
"Elections commission head Serhiy Kivalov said Saturday he was not opposed to new voting but added that 'before such an emotional decision is taken, a commission must be created to analyze the work of the CEC,' according to the Unian news agency.''
"Yushchenko has also demanded that the election commission’s membership be changed, absentee balloting be prohibited, the candidates be given equal access to the media and that international observers participate." 11-04
- Ukrainian Encyclopedia (Wikipedia.org)
Provides over 10,000 articles in the language. 12-04
- -12-08-04 Doctors: It Was Dioxin Poisoning (CBS News)
"Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko called on Sunday for a serious investigation to determine how he was poisoned by dioxin, but urged it be conducted after the Dec. 26 presidential runoff election to avoid influencing the results."
"Doctors at Vienna's elite Rudolfiner clinic said tests run over the weekend proved beyond a doubt that it was dioxin poisoning that caused a mystery illness in September that left Yushchenko disfigured and in pain." 12-04
- -12-08-04 Before and After Dioxin Poisoning (Toronto Star)
"JULY: Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko as he looked less than five months ago before being hit by a mystery illness. NOVEMBER: A shockingly altered Yushchenko as he appeared in Kiev." 12-04
- -12-17-04 Yushchenko Dioxin Poisoning Very Severe (CNN News)
"Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned by TCDD, the most harmful known form of dioxin and a key ingredient of the Vietnam-era herbicide Agent Orange, the scientist who conducted tests on the presidential candidate's blood said." 12-04
- -01-11-05 Yushchenko Declared Victor (CNN News)
"Ukraine's electoral commission has declared Viktor Yushchenko the official winner of last month's re-run presidential election." 01-05
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