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| | On the campaign trail: Stryi's national deputy seeks re-election (03/31/02) |
 | | STRYI, Ukraine - At the outset of the campaign, Ihor Ostash and his election team set a goal: to visit every single city, town and village in electoral district No. 127. |
 | | The 200-square-kilometer district's heart is the western Ukrainian city of Stryi (population: 70,000), whose claim to recent historical fame is that the blue-and-yellow was first raised here, back in 1990. |
 | | First, he is an ethnic Russian (although his Ukrainian language skills are impeccable), whose parents arrived in Stryi in the 1950s, when the Soviet Union deliberately settled western Ukraine with ethnic Russians and other non-native groups in an effort to control the independence-minded population. |
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