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Topic: 1999 Ukrainian presidential election

	Ukrainian presidential election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The presidential election held in November and December 2004 in Ukraine was mostly a political battle between Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and former Prime Minister and opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko.
		The election was held in a highly charged atmosphere, with allegations of media bias, intimidation and even a poisoning of Yushchenko that was later confirmed to be the result of the poison dioxin.
		The initial vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election was held on October 31, 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ukrainian_presidential_election,_2004 (2112 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		For the months preceding the election, Ukrainian political life was dominated by electoral mudslinging, allegations of fraud, and violence.
		Moreover, on September 14, presidential candidates Marchuk, Moroz, Oliynyk, and Tkachenko appealed to the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, requesting that it send monitors to Ukraine, in early October, to monitor the presidential campaign and ensure that the campaign's final stage was conducted in accordance with the law.
		The parliament cited alleged violations by Kuchma of the Law on Presidential Elections, accusing him of using illegal means in his quest for reelection.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol8num4/constitutionwatch/ukraine.html (2146 words)

	ELECTION WATCH: The Ukrainian presidential elections: a mixture of hope and expectation (10/17/99)
		The poll figures for the leading candidates are understandable (though there are accusations alleging that the figures are being manipulated by the Kuchma team to inflate the president's popularity) in that, with the exception of the incumbent, they all represent the left of the political spectrum.
		Denied access to UT-1 and state radio (except for the brief exposure mandated by the election law closer to the elections), as well as to larger commercial TV channels that are associated with pro-Kuchma oligarchs, the success of their campaigns will in no small measure depend on access to the independent regional media.
		Without disparaging any sincerely held presidential aspirations, the participation of most of the center-right candidates might, therefore, best be viewed as a concerted drive to raise the public profile of their parties.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1999/429913.shtml (2002 words)

	VOA Ukraine Election Roundtable
		If the elections are not free and fair, that won’t give the confidence that things will continue to move forward in the direction of the consolidation of democracy, human rights, the rule of law.
		I think the other significance of this election is that, of course, with the constitutional changes that were agreed a year ago, after the election, the Rada chooses the prime minister, who is going to be both more independent from the president, and will have significantly expanded authority.
		In the presidential election, the difference of 49% and 52% was seen as very crucial and as very important in terms of the trajectory of the country.
	www.voanews.com /ukrainian/archive/2006-03/2006-03-08-voa3.cfm (6331 words)

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		The presidential election alliance of Yevhen Marchuk, Oleksandr Moroz, Volodymyr Oliynyk, and Oleksandr Tkachenko fell apart on 26 October after Moroz announced he will stay in the race despite the alliance's earlier decision to support Marchuk (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 25 and 26 October 1999).
		All observers of the Ukrainian political scene agree that none of the presidential hopefuls will obtain more than 50 percent of the vote on 31 October, meaning there will be a runoff on 14 November.
		Ukrainian opinion polls suggest that the most likely candidates to reach the runoff with Kuchma are Natalya Vitrenko, Petro Symonenko, Oleksandr Moroz, and Yevhen Marchuk.
	www.infoukes.com /rfe-ukraine/1999/1027.html (1150 words)

	Yuschenko's "Orange" Ukraine and Conquering the Ghosts of Its Past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ukrainians were often the victims of Stalin’s suppression of dissidents, many of which were Crimeans accused of conspiring with the Nazis during World War II, and were consequently sent to Siberian labor camps until Stalin’s last years.
		Ukrainians also chose Leonid Kravchuk, whose previous position was as chairman of the Ukrainian parliament, as the country’s first post-Soviet president, based on his stated desire for an independent Ukraine.
		The Ukrainian population that voted for Yuschenko shared in a common interest of westernizing their country and felt that Yuschenko’s plans and promises for ensuring this goal were the most appropriate course of action, and in turn have expected Yuschenko to uphold his shared desires to westernize Ukraine.
	www.iwa.org /Publications/Monographs/keene.html (2206 words)

	Ukrainian Presidential Elections - 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The way the pre-election atmosphere is unfolding in Ukraine, the upcoming Presidential Elections of October 31, 2004, may be the most significant turning point for democracy in Ukraine since it regained its independence in 1991.
		With the prospect of the presidential elections looming and President Kuchma’s declaration not to run for a third term, a political struggle has begun to develop within this nation of nearly 50 million.
		At this critical juncture in the history of Ukraine’s new democracy, a failure to support the rights of the Ukrainian electorate to an informed choice in the upcoming presidential election will have profound repercussions not only in Ukraine, but also in the currently transforming face of Europe.
	ucca.org /events/elections2004.html (763 words)

	Ukraine Today
		In her opinion, the attack's goal was to remove from the presidential race two most powerful opponents of the incumbent President.
		On October 6 the Supreme Council passed its address to the people of Ukraine concerning the presidential election due to be held in the country October 31.
		Ukrainian legislators draw the Ukrainian people's attention to the fact that President Leonid Kuchma promised not to run for a second term of office unless the economic situation in the country improved.
	www.ukraine.org /www.ukrainet.lviv.ua/infobank/1999/1011e.html (1576 words)

	Ukraine without Kuchma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was organized by the political opposition, influenced by the Cassette Scandal and aimed mainly to demand the resignation of President Leonid Kuchma.
		The opposition parties, having lost the 1999 Ukrainian presidential election shortly before the scandal, considered the campaign as a natural reason for unification and reinforcement.
		Yushchenko's campaign in the 2004 presidential election was significantly influenced by the slogans, tactics and general spirit of UBK.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UBK (860 words)

	Ukrainian presidential election leads to coup d'etat - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When the first results of the presidential election were announced in Ukraine at 03:00 Moscow times, Viktor Yushchenko left the press room of the Central Electoral Committee in silence.
		Viktor Yushchenko called upon the Ukrainian citizens to organize a meeting of protest on Monday morning: 'We do not trust the work of the Central Electoral Committee and the results that they obtain on the base of falsified documents,' Yushchenko was quoted as saying.
		Presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko intends to apply to the European Parliament, the OSCE and the EU in connection with falsifications of the presidential election in Ukraine.
	english.pravda.ru /world/ussr/22-11-2004/7396-ukraine-0 (659 words)

	Ukraine's Future and U.S. Interests
		President Kuchma was first elected in 1994 — in an election that was widely applauded as generally free and fair, and which represented the first time in a former Soviet state when a leader yielded power to another as the result of a free election.
		The United States and our European allies advised the Ukrainians that the latest draft of the Action Plan lacked goals on democratic reform and ensuring a free and presidential election, and that the Ukrainians had to go beyond the Plan — especially on elections — to advance their NATO aspirations.
		The Ukrainian government had hoped to be granted market economy status by the European Union prior to expansion, but the European Union, while not yet issuing a formal decision, has expressed concern about several aspects of Ukraine’s economy, especially with respect to the government’s regulation of prices.
	www.state.gov /p/eur/rls/rm/32416.htm (6345 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : International
		Kiev, Dec. 29 (Reuters): Defeated Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich pulled out of a cabinet meeting today under pressure from his liberal opponent, but tried to keep a toehold on power by contesting the election result.
		Parliament sacked Yanukovich as head of the government early this month, shortly after an election run-off won by him was annulled as fraudulent.
		A spokeswoman for the Central Election Commission said it had received the complaint late yesterday listing violations of election law in all of Ukraine?s 225 electoral districts.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1041230/asp/foreign/story_4191830.asp (446 words)

	The West & Ukraine's 2004 Presidential Election
		The Kolchuga scandal was behind the warning issued to Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, when he was told he would not be welcome at the NATO Prague summit in November 2002 -- a warning he duly ignored.
		United States Helsinki Commission leaders issued statements in support of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens of all ages amassing in a nationwide protest in the face of outright fraud and falsification in Ukraine’s presidential election held Sunday.
		They were nothing like the massive protests in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, where hundreds of thousands took to the streets to support the opposition, and tens of thousands turned out on behalf of the sitting prime minister.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/ukraine/election-2004-w.htm (2087 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Powell, Russian Clash on Ukraine
		In Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, tension over the vote continued Tuesday as parliament adjourned for the day without voting on measures meant to secure a fair rerun of the presidential vote.
		But in general, the Bush administration has held back from directly criticizing Russia's role in the election or the apparent larger Russian strategy of influencing elections in countries on its border, and Powell did not mention them in his remarks at the OSCE forum.
		Later, when a Bulgarian college student asked Powell at a youth forum whether the Cold War was coming back, Powell reassured her, saying it was not returning because "we have good relations with Russia" and he was able to speak candidly to Lavrov.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A42522-2004Dec7?language=printer (805 words)

	CNN.com - World News: Election Watch
		Presidential elections were last held on October 31 and November 14, 1999.
		In this election, Leonid D. KUCHMA became president by winning 57.7% of the votes in the second round, while Petro SYMONENKO secured 38.8% of the votes.
		Major issues in the elections included corruption, the economy, improvement of the police and judicial system, and lack of free press.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/europe/ukraine5.html (274 words)

	Build Ukraine
		fair election process for the presidential election on October 31, 2004.
		Ukrainian parliamentary by-elections in the Donetsk region and in mayoral
		election in Mukacheve, Ukraine, represent a deliberate attack on the
	www.artukraine.com /buildukraine/election.htm (1257 words)

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		Our central substantive question will be how much constraint elections can establish for policy choice s - given the limits both to the information possessed by individual voters and to the clarity of their preferences.
		We will discuss the implications of different models of electoral behavior for political theory and public policy primarily from this angle, while also giving some attention to the practical lessons that can be drawn for electoral strategists and political information campaigns.
		Instead, the recommended readings feature works on post-communist countrie s wherever possible, and all participants are encouraged to bring the electoral experiences of their own country in the discussion.
	www.ceu.hu /polsci/Syllabi04-05/Fall/PhD/VotingBehavior.rtf (6693 words)

	Online NewsHour Update: Opposition Leader Declares Victory in Ukrainian Election -- December 27, 2004
		"I am much happier to be in a position to announce that the Ukrainian elections have moved substantially closer to meet OSCE standards," Bruce George, the head of an Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe monitoring mission, told a news conference.
		The initial election in November was marred by widespread electoral irregularities that European and American observers said made that vote invalid.
		The Ukrainian Supreme Court nullified the Nov. 21 election, saying rampant voter fraud in several parts of the country required Sunday's re-vote.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/ukraine_12-27-04.html (1041 words)

	CNN.com - World - Election Watch
		In the last election President KUCHMA received 51.24% of the vote, thereby defeating Leonid KRAVCHUK, who received 45.06% of the vote.
		Another issue in the campaign was IMF involvement in the direction of the Ukrainian economy.
		The assassination attempt on presidential candidate VITRENKO early in the campaign also became an issue leading to charges that KUCHMA tried to derail the elections.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/europe/ukraine2.html (218 words)

	Build Ukraine
		All the conclusions were unanimous: President Kuchma's current term should be considered his first presidential term, which means Kuchma is eligible to stand for the presidency once again at the next election.
		He also recalled that in the Central Electoral Commission's documents of 1999 the Ukrainian presidential hopeful and presidential candidate [Kuchma] figured as the president of Ukraine at the time of his election, "thus being effectively re-elected to that post".
		And that person (Kuchma) at the time of the new presidential election in 2004 "would be a person who has already held the post of Ukrainian president for two consecutive terms".
	www.artukraine.com /buildukraine/legal_exp.htm (1033 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Ukrainian election
		Ukrainian lawmakers are trying to muster support today to pass a law preventing election fraud, as President Leonid Kuchma allowed Prime Minister engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php3?threadid=107501 ' target=_blank>Viktor Yanukovych to take leave to campaign for the Dec. 26 presidential poll.
		Friday's decision of the Supreme Court to invalidate the election because of widespread fraud and order a repeat election marked the most important moment for Ukraine More details...
		Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian opposition leader and presidential candidate, has said in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper that if the opposition suffers a defeat as a result of the repeated voting during the second round, it will seize power in Ukraine by force More details...
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2004/12/08/57397.html (1784 words)

	Ukraine chief calls for all sides to talk \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		The startling development in the three-day standoff came as the Bush administration urged the Ukrainian government not to certify results of Sunday's runoff election results that showed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, backed by Kuchma, defeating the Western-leaning Viktor Yushchenko.
		The election commission's announcement that Yanukovych was ahead of Yushchenko has galvanized anger among many of Ukraine's 48 million people.
		As night fell, more than 10,000 marched to the presidential administration building, skirting some heavy trucks that blocked the street and facing off with hundreds of police in full riot gear who were guarding the site.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/49554 (622 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Ukraine's political crisis: a timeline
		In the free elections held simultaneously with a referendum on independence from the Soviet Union, Leonid Kravchuk, a former chairman of the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet, is elected president.
		An emergency session of the Ukrainian parliament declares the presidential election results invalid and expresses no-confidence in the elections commission.
		The Central Elections Commission issues its final ruling declaring Viktor Yushchenko the winner of the presidential election with 51.99 per cent of the vote and Yanukovych with 44.2 per cent.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/ukraine/timeline.html (1189 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The central election commission announced Wednesday, November 24, Yanukovich emerged triumphant receiving 49.46 percent of the vote, compared to 46.61 percent for Yushchenko.
		The Russian president, however, said the Ukrainian elections crisis could be resolved by the courts.
		OSCE observers in Ukraine have said that Sunday's presidential election fell short of European democratic standards and were demonstrated with mass irregularities.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2004-11/25/article06.shtml (718 words)

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		Variations in institutional variables will be related to the contradictory empirical evidence on whether elections hold policy-makers accou n table to citizens and responsive to popular preferences.
		Our central substantive question will be how much constraint elections can establish for policy choices - given the limits both to the information possessed by individual voters and to the clarity o f their preferences.
		Instead, the recommended readings feature works on post-communist countries wherever possible, and all participants are encouraged to bring the electoral experiences of their own country in the discussion.
	www.personal.ceu.hu /staff/voting_behavior/C-06pub.rtf (6200 words)

	Ukraine Today
		This decision has been made in view of the fact that the introduction of higher import duty rates on textile and its raw materials in 1996-1998 has not led to an decrease in their import as most fabrics are imported as customer-supplied law materials and from the C.I.S. countries with no duty imposed on them.
		Ukraine was to receive the tranche within the EFF program in October, but on the last day of the month it holds the presidential election.
		The President has said that he is in favor of this decision as until now Ukrainian sunflower seed producing and processing companies have been losing up to US$ 100 million annually on account of the fact that part of this raw material has been exported.
	www.ukraine.org /www.ukrainet.lviv.ua/infobank/1999/1004e.html (1200 words)

	Pravda.RU PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN MOLDOVA. VARIATIONS ON THE SAME THEME
		Tomorrow the Parliament of Moldova is to carry on presidential elections.
		Ukrainian authorities have launched an attack on Russian-language television programmes in the Crimea, a peninsula which overwhelmingly speaks Russian - this news came from the Russian Movement of Ukraine.
		During the visit Ukrainian deputies, headed by speaker of the lower chamber of the Ukrainian parliament, will conduct meetings with general secretary of NATO George Robertson and other NATO officials.
	newsfromrussia.com /cis/2000/12/04/1286.html (1448 words)

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