Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma on 11 November wound up his election campaign in Donetsk Oblast, the Russian-speaking industrial homeland of his Communist challenger, Petro Symonenko.
Kuchma avoided direct attacks on Symonenko but told voters at Yasynuvata near Donetsk that Symonenko's victory would bring price hikes and cause foreign investors to flee.
Kuchma, speaking in Russian, stressed the importance of the strategic partnership between Ukraine and Russia but was also careful to underscore that Ukraine will remain an independent state.
The Internet centers are among 71 centers that have been opened throughout Ukraine as part of the Embassy’s Library Electronic Access Project (LEAP).
The LEAP Centers were opened in eight cities - Berdiansk, Kirovohrad, Kramatorsk, Malyn, Oleksandriya, Rivne, Yasynuvata, and Zaporizhzhya - with the goal of providing Ukrainian citizens with greater access to information.
Ukrainians meet with their Polish counterparts to discuss media issues
