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	Leonid Kuchma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kuchma was born in Chaikyne village of Chernihivs'ka oblast' (Ukrainian SSR).
		Kuchma resigned his position in September 1993, to successfully run for the presidency in 1994, on a platform to boost the economy by restoring economic relations with Russia.
		Kuchma was urged by Yanukovych and Viktor Medvedchuk (the head of the presidential office) to declare a state of emergency and hold the inauguration of Yanukovych.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leonid_Kuchma (646 words)

	Leonid Kravchuk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Макарович Кравчук born 10 January 1934) is a Ukrainian politician.
		Leonid Kravchuk is the author of books dealing with his career and Politics of Ukraine (some of them were translated into English).
		Leonid Kravchuk's political creed is avoiding conflicts and straightforward declaration of his position.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leonid_Kravchuk (844 words)

	Kommersant: The First Blitz
		The Ukrainian government headed by Leonid Kuchma was under strong pressure from the West, which had forced Kiev to acknowledge its role as principal mediator in the Ukrainian crisis.
		Kuchma's departure for Moscow, the European Parliament passed a special resolution on Ukraine calling on the government in Kiev to “annul the results of the runoff vote in the presidential elections and to hold a revote before the end of the year with the participation of international observers”.
		Leonid Kuchma complained that, “yesterday it seemed as though a solution that would make it possible to settle the conflict in the political and legal field had been found; everyone shook hands and squeezed each other, but the blockade of government buildings has to be lifted”, but the opposition was not doing this.
	www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=530483 (1127 words)

	Build Ukraine
		Leonid Kuchma, the second president of independent Ukraine, is expected to step down after the presidential election scheduled for 31 October 2004.
		Kuchma was born into a poor northern Ukrainian family in 1938.
		Kuchma ran for president on promises of civil peace, friendship with Russia, economic reform, and tough measures against corruption.
	www.artukraine.com /buildukraine/kuchma.htm (617 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Leonid Kuchma
		Kuchma was born in, a village of the Chernihivs'ka oblast' (Ukrainian SSR).
		President Kuchma, along with, then the Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, is believed to have played a key role in sacking the Cabinet of Viktor Yushchenko on April 26, 2001.
		At that time, however, Kuchma was himself blocked by protesters in his residence outside Kyiv, so he had effectively no power to pass.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Leonid-Kuchma (2276 words)

	Leonid Kuchma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kuchma was born in Chaikyne village of the Chernihivs'ka oblast' Chernihiv Oblast quick summary:
		Kuchma studied at Dnipropetrovs'k[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] university and got a degree in rocket rocket quick summary:
		Kuchma was present at the inauguration of President Yushchenko on January 23, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leonid_kuchma.htm (1496 words)

	Leonid Kuchma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Leonid Kuchma (born August 8 1938) has been the president of Ukraine since 1994.
		Kuchma played an important in Soviet strategic missile and space rocket programs as an executive of "Yuzmash" company in Dnipropetrovs'k.
		From 1990 to 1992 he was a member of the parliament (Committee on Defence and State Security) became Prime Minister of Ukraine in 1992.
	www.freeglossary.com /Leonid_Kuchma (499 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Between 2003 and 2005, the leaderships of three CIS member states were overthrown in a series of "color revolutions": Eduard Shevardnadze in Georgia, Leonid Kuchma in Ukraine, and, lastly, Askar Akayev in Kyrgyzstan.
		The history of Ukraine after the independence between 1992 and 2004 was marked by the presidencies of Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma.
		Viktor Pinchuk, the son-in-law of ex-president Leonid Kuchma, is the second wealthiest man in Ukraine and controls much of the nation's media.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Leonid-Kuchma.htm (686 words)

	Embassy of Ukraine Press Release: President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma Addresses the Scientific Conference "Ukraine on ...
		Kuchma said that at the present moment when Ukraine is lagging considerably behind its neighbors in Eastern and Central Europe government's pivotal task is boosting GDP per capita in order to catch up with countries like the Czech Republic and Poland.
		Kuchma believes that to catch up with the countries that are first wave candidates for EU membership Ukraine would need at least 6-7% GDP growth and conditions for this should be created in 2001.
		Kuchma told the conference that an important task of reform is to reduce the influence of the so called "oligarchic structures".
	www.infoukes.com /ukremb/pr001116e.shtml (1015 words)

	Biografías de Líderes Políticos CIDOB: Leonid Kuchma (Ucrania) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kuchma parecía encontrarse incómodo ante la crónica incapacidad para obtener de las potencias occidentales apoyos incondicionales a sus políticas económicas, que hasta la llegada de Yushchenko al Gobierno habían sido tachadas de vacilantes.
		Kuchma negó saber nada de la venta de radares al régimen de Saddam Hussein, pero luego intentó apaciguar a los estadounidenses enviando al Irak ocupado el nutrido contingente militar citado arriba.
		Kuchma restringió su protagonismo con pruritos de neutralidad, pero los funcionarios a sus órdenes brindaron un soporte descarado al primer ministro, que tuvo a su disposición todos los medios del Estado y una presencia hegemónica en los espacios de difusión públicos y en los privados pertenecientes a los grupos empresariales progubernamentales.
	www.cidob.org /bios/castellano/lideres/k-005.htm (7148 words)

	Ukraine Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		President Leonid Kuchma, while on a two-day working visit to Dnipropetrovsk region, reiterated his forecast on Wednesday about the upcoming election as likely to be the dirtiest and most amoral election in independent Ukraine's history.
		As Leonid Kuchma stressed, Ukrainian voters will elect the President of independent Ukraine, whose duties are specified in the Constitution, rather than some zar, which makes it the candidates' imperative duty not to break Ukraine's stability, thanks to which Ukraine is among the world's advanced nations.
		As Leonid Kuchma further noted, many attendants of the recent CIS Summit in Astana (Kazakhstan) were surprised to learn about Ukraine's economic headways as having been achieved through developing high technologies, rather than relying on exports of raw materials.
	www.ukrnow.com /content/view/962/2 (339 words)

	Ukrainian President Accused Leonid Kuchma accused of involvement in murder of journalist
		Leonid Kuchma accused of involvement in murder of journalist
		Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma was accused of involvement in the murder of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze by the parliamentary commission investigating the murder of Gongadze and other journalists on 3 September.
		While Kuchma has been accused of involvement in Gongadze's murder for some two years on the basis of secret recordings made in his office by a member of his security detail, Mykola Melnychenko, this is the first time that parliament has pursued such action.
	www.templetonthorp.com /de/news124 (125 words)

	Build Ukraine
		Leonid Kuchma was granted the right to try his luck in the presidential race for another time.
		Yet Leonid Kuchma exercised a similar right in 1994 and according to the CC judge Vasyl Nemchenko "fulfilled the functions of the president".
		To declare that from 1994 to 1996 Leonid Kuchma was not the President is impossible.
	www.artukraine.com /buildukraine/rakhmanin.htm (1889 words)

	NEWSBRIEFS (03/11/01)
		KYIV - President Leonid Kuchma said on March 6 that state officials have one week to publicly renounce ties to the opposition or resign their posts.
		Kuchma by pointing to his alleged financial machinations and abuse of power during the 1999 presidential elections.
		Kuchma noted: "It is not by chance that my main accusers are precisely the same people who have blocked Ukraine's transformation to a free market economy." The Ukrainian president said there are no grounds to accuse him of Mr.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2001/100108.shtml (1590 words)

	USATODAY.com - Kuchma questioned in connection with journalist's killing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kuchma was questioned as a witness as part of an investigation into the slaying of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, said prosecutor general's office spokesman Vyacheslav Astapov.
		Kuchma's opponents have accused him of involvement in the killing.
		Kuchma has denied all allegations against him and has questioned the authenticity of the secret tapes allegedly recorded by his former bodyguard Mykola Melnichenko.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-03-10-ukraine-journalist_x.htm?csp=34 (469 words)

	CER \| Ukraine: Curtain call for Kuchma?
		Kuchma's worst political crisis of his six years in office happened to coincide with the arrival of a senior delegation from the European Union.
		Kuchma has already stated that the voice on the tape is his, suggesting, however, that the tape was heavily edited.
		Kuchma may have secured his position for the next few months but it will not be long before the opposition intensifies their attack.
	www.ce-review.org /01/7/lovatt7.html (1338 words)

	AllRefer.com - Leonid Danylovych Kuchma (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Leonid Danylovych Kuchma[liunyEt´ dunyE´luvich kooch´mA] Pronunciation Key, 1938–;, Ukrainian politician, president of Ukraine (1994–;).
		Kuchma initiated some free-market reforms in his economically struggling nation and was successful at gaining Western support and funds for Ukraine, but the country has suffered from a declining economy dominated by huge state-run industries.
		He was reelected in 1999, but he later was implicated in Sept., 2000, disappearance of an opposition journalist, which led to an erosion of parliamentary and public support.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/KuchmaLeo.html (264 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Profile: Leonid Kuchma
		Leonid Kuchma was born in 1938 in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine.
		Over the last three years, Leonid Kuchma has shown himself increasingly intolerant of criticism, especially in the electronic media, who say they have become the target of abuse and harassment.
		But suggestions by the US that Leonid Kuchma has been involved in approving the illegal sale of radar system to Iraq (in violation of UN sanctions) look like destroying any political legitimacy he has left.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/2283925.stm (643 words)

	Ukraine Ukraine Votes to Change Constitution
		Parliamentary supporters of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma rammed a constitutional reform bill through the national assembly on Wednesday despite raucous dissent from opponents who called it an excuse for dictatorship.
		Yushchenko and other Kuchma opponents say the president will exploit the changes to keep his job and the accompanying immunity from prosecution beyond October.
		Kuchma, meanwhile, flew to Crimea on Wednesday to meet President Vladimir Putin and discuss the joint use of shipping routes in the Sea of Azov.
	www.templetonthorp.com /de/news492 (427 words)

	Ukraine leader weighs in on revote / Kuchma advises chosen successor against running
		Kuchma also accused the opposition leader, Viktor Yushchenko, of prolonging the electoral crisis by breaking a promise to mediators to allow changes in the constitution sought by Kuchma before the new vote, now scheduled for Dec. 26.
		Kuchma acknowledged, indirectly, that the Nov. 21 runoff had been marred by electoral violations, though he questioned their extent and said he believed that Yanukovich had actually won.
		Kuchma also criticized the Supreme Court's decision "as a political decision, not a legal one," though he later said that he, like Yanukovich, would honor it.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/12/06/MNGCVA777L1.DTL (563 words)

	ANALYSIS: Communists come to the rescue of President Leonid Kuchma, again (09/21/03) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		President Leonid Kuchma and his oligarchic allies have no candidate agreeable to the three main clans who could win an election and act as a neutral "umpire" between them.
		If the lack of 12 to 15 votes is overcome and the constitutional changes are in fact adopted, President Kuchma could be elected by his parliament majority to become prime minister, to whom many of the current powers of the president would pass.
		Kuchma is constitutionally unable to be elected president for a third term, he could still survive politically by entering government, thereby postponing any problems surrounding his immunity - thanks, of course, to "anti-state" forces.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2003/380305.shtml (1072 words)

	The Observer \| International \| Kuchma offered get-out clause
		He did not specify what 'moral conduct' was required, but the opposition wants Kuchma's help to push through electoral reforms and sack the government before a new vote ordered by the supreme court on Friday for 26 December.
		Kuchma has on several occasions tried to engineer a change in Ukrainian law that would give him immunity from possible prosecution once he leaves office.
		He said the supreme court was under 'enormous pressure' from the Kuchma administration during its deliberations but the judge must have realised 'when he stood live in front of the TV cameras, that is was impossible to make a different decision'.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,6903,1366795,00.html (634 words)

	CNN.com - Kuchma defies protesters - March 10, 2001
		Kuchma is under pressure from opponents who say his administration is corrupt and accuse him of being involved in the death of a journalist.
		But in comments released on Saturday Kuchma insisted he still had the support of the majority of the population.
		Opposition movements allege Kuchma was involved in the disappearance of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, whose headless corpse was found outside Kiev last year.
	www.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/03/10/ukraine.kuchma/index.html (358 words)

	Ukraine Info \| News \| News Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the beginning of the meeting, Leonid Kuchma thanked the Minister for the cordial welcome during his visit to the UAE in January 2003.
		Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma criticized the seven major industrialized nations for failing to fulfill their promises to finance the construction of the Khmelnytsky and Rivne nuclear power plants to make good for electricity losses to result from the upcoming closure of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
		President Leonid Kuchma has called on the Verkhovna Rada to speed up the bringing of legislation that regulates the protection of intellectual property rights in line with international regulations so as not to stall the negotiation process of Ukraine's accession to the World Trade Organization.
	www.ukremb.com /news/news/040609.html (456 words)

	Ukraine Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Leonid Kuchma's opinion, the quartet of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine possesses enormous economic and R&D potential.
		Leonid Kuchma drew the mediapeople's attention to the hard fact that global geopolitical centers keep shifting, in particular, toward China with its enviable economic boom, and India.
		In President Kuchma's opinion, the IES countries are quite capable of developing and making advanced planes, which will be admitted to Europe's skies, unlike today's planes of the AN, TU, IL-families, which are barred from Europe because of their allegedly too noisy engines and harmful atmospheric emissions.
	www.ukrnow.com /content/view/821/2 (457 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Kuchma returns to Ukraine and possible arrest
		Former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma returned to Kiev this weekend as some members of parliament were calling for his arrest in a journalist's murder case, and a suicide note by former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko was revealed in which he blames his suicide on "political intrigues" by Kuchma and his associates.
		In a brief interview for Czech Television on 4 March, Kuchma once again insisted that he was innocent of any wrongdoing in the Gongadze case and that he did not order Kravchenko to kill Gongadze.
		The recordings contain conversations from 2000 with a voice resembling Yanukovych's, who was appointed by Kuchma as governor of Donetsk Oblast in 1999, in which he is heard discussing with Kuchma a number of allegedly illegal activities.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /securitywatch/details_print.cfm?id=10893 (713 words)

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