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Kyiv Post
March 23, 2018
Audio tapes of then-President Leonid Kuchma demanding that Gongadze be silenced were released, but Kuchma was only a suspect briefly in 2011. Another manifestation of impunity against those attacking journalists came in December, when Yuriy Krysin, one of the paid thugs hired by then-PresidentÃÂ ...
IR.net
March 20, 2018
The pro-Russian Yanukovych was then-outgoing-Ukrainian (also pro-Russian) President Leonid Kuchma's chosen successor back in 2004, and Kuchma tried to rig the election in Yanukovych's favor, sparking Ukraine's Orange Revolution that ended up seeing more pro-Western, more anti-Russian leadersÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
March 16, 2018
As for the 1,692 corruption cases supposedly decided by courts last year, none of them involved defendants named Viktor Yanukovych, Leonid Kuchma, Sergei Kurchenko, Ihor Kolomoisky, Dmytro Firtash, Rinat Akhmetov, Ihor Kononenko, Yuriy Boyko, Arsen Avakov, Oleh Hladkovsky, Viktor Medvedchuk,ÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
March 15, 2018
The Ukrainian side of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) insists on comprehensive monitoring by concerned international organizations at all stages of the hostage release, Darka Olifer, spokeswoman for Ukraine's second president Leonid Kuchma, who represents the country in the TCG, has said. “Work isÃÂ ...
Eurasia Daily
March 15, 2018
Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership of Ukraine and Russia (commonly known as The Big Treaty) was signed by Leonid Kuchma and Boris Yeltsin on May 31, 1997. Moscow has already responded to the statement on possible denouncement of the treaty. “I am not surprised with that intentionÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
March 12, 2018
Ukrainian pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk (C), Ukrainian lawmaker Nestor Shufrych (L) and Ukrainian former president Leonid Kuchma (R) take part in informal peace talks with pro-Russian separatists of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" in Donetsk on June 27, 2014. Photo by AFP.
Eurasia Daily
March 12, 2018
This has been the custom since the days of Leonid Kuchma's presidency. Therefore, any serious businessman or statesman can be pressed on corruption-related cases. In Ukraine, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) already existed.
Eurasia Daily
March 1, 2018
Likewise, the Minsk agreements were signed by former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma. In 1996, based on the Erdut Agreement, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1037 establishing UNTAES (the United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia).
Interfax-Ukraine
February 28, 2018
... line in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, may take place near the village of Stanytsia Luhanska in Luhansk region on Monday, March 5, if there is a ceasefire, the press secretary of ex-president of Ukraine and the country's envoy to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) Leonid Kuchma, Darka Olifer, has said.
Interfax-Ukraine
February 23, 2018
Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, in turn, said he think modern-day politicians are politicizing history. "They came and turned everything inside out, while at the same time making comments on history. These politicians should be shunned, so that they don't spoil the atmosphere of cooperation,"ÃÂ ...
Atlantic Council (blog)
February 19, 2018
“By the end of the first term of Leonid Kuchma's presidency in 1999, Ukraine had descended into a hybrid regime that combined competitive elections with corruption, cronyism, and nepotism. This still persists today.” The 2004 Orange Revolution was a reaction to this post-communist kleptocratic andÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
February 15, 2018
Darka Olifer, spokeswoman for Ukraine's second president and the country's representative in the TCG, Leonid Kuchma, wrote on her Facebook page on February 14 that the issue concerned the search for missing persons with the participation of Ukraine, Russia, the International Committee of the RedÃÂ ...
UNIAN
February 14, 2018
She also said that the key issue raised by Ukraine's envoy to the TCC, Leonid Kuchma, was that of security and inadmissibility of armed provocations. "He stated the unacceptability of provocations both from the side of the Russia-controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and from Russia itself, andÃÂ ...
UNIAN
February 14, 2018
She also said that the key issue raised by Ukraine's envoy to the TCC, Leonid Kuchma, was that of security and inadmissibility of armed provocations. "He stated the unacceptability of provocations both from the side of the Russia-controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and from Russia itself, andÃÂ ...
Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
February 13, 2018
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman met with former Ukrainian presidents Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yushchenko on February 13. The head of the government informed this on his Facebook page. "I met with the presidents of Ukraine. It was a very interesting conversation.
112 International (blog)
December 31, 1999
We recall that in 2003 the Constitutional Court of Ukraine confirmed that the former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma could run for a third term, since the Constitution, which provides only two presidential terms in a row, was adopted in 1996, while Kuchma at first held the presidential post in 1994. ThusÃÂ ...
UNIAN
December 28, 2017
In the trilateral contact group, Ukraine is represented by Leonid Kuchma. I want to emphasize once again that this is a very difficult negotiation process, and there we need the heavyweights who know how to negotiate with Russia. Kuchma is one of them, the one who knows how to speak with themÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
December 21, 2017
Now Ukraine will never experience any credible investigations of those who deserve them: Yanukovych, Leonid Kuchma, Rinat Akhmetov, Ihor Kolomoisky, Gennadiy Bogolyubov, Dmytro Firtash, Yuriy Boyko, Arsen Avakov, Yuriy Lutsenko, Boris Lozhkin, Roman Nasirov, Mykola Martynenko and manyÃÂ ...
Reliefweb
December 20, 2017
I want to express my gratitude to my colleagues in the TCG, President Leonid Kuchma and Boris Gryzlov, as well as to the representatives of CADR and CALR, Denis Pushilin and Vladislav Deinego. I also thank the Coordinators of the Working Groups Ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan, Ambassador PierreÃÂ ...
UNIAN
December 20, 2017
The Tripartite Contact Group (TCG) for Donbas settlement on Wednesday announced another ceasefire effective from midnight December 23, 2017, as reported by Darka Olifer, a press secretary for Ukraine's ex-president Leonid Kuchma, who is now the country's representative in the TCG. Photo fromÃÂ ...
Xinhua
December 20, 2017
Darka Olifer, the spokesperson for Ukraine's representative in the group Leonid Kuchma, wrote on Facebook said that the indefinite ceasefire in the conflict-hit region will be launched on midnight Dec. 23 to enable civilians quietly celebrate the winter holidays. During the group's meeting, she said, theÃÂ ...
Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
December 15, 2017
In addition, an MP and the president's commissioner for the Crimean Tatar people, Mustafa Dzhemilev, is 47th, second Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma 49th, Ukraine's special representative in the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group on peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbas,ÃÂ ...
OCCRP
December 15, 2017
In 2004, Leonid Kuchma, then the president of Ukraine, signed a law that allowed the 10 most valuable enterprises in the country's extraction and metallurgy industry – once part of the state-owned holding Ukrrudprom, – to be sold for far less than their true value. Pinchuk, Kuchma's son-in-law, was rapidlyÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 15, 2017
And in all but one case -- Leonid Kuchma's reelection in 1999 -- the incumbent or the incumbent's handpicked successor has lost every single time. And with the exception of the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution that resulted in pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych fleeing the country, transfers of power inÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 12, 2017
“He's kept The Kyiv Post alive and stood up for us through financial crises and extraordinary political pressures.” Zahoor said he owes The Kyiv Post for saving his business twenty years ago. Subscribe to The Morning Email. Wake up to the day's most important news. “It was President Leonid Kuchma's time.
TASS
December 12, 2017
KIEV, December 12. /TASS/. Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko personally controls the upcoming prisoner swap, Kiev's envoy to the Contact Group for the settlement in eastern Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, told reporters on Tuesday. "President Poroshenko is also personally engaged in this issue, so letÃÂ ...
Interfax-Ukraine
November 18, 2017
Ukraine's second president (1994-2005) Leonid Kuchma, a representative of the Trilateral Contact Group for regulating the situation in Donbas, ...
Kyiv Post
November 16, 2017
... outside Kyiv's control, Darka Olifer, the spokesperson for former Ukrainian president and Ukraine's envoy to the group Leonid Kuchma, said.
Kyiv Post
November 10, 2017
Ex-President Leonid Kuchma and his top cohorts remain the top suspects in ordering the crime despite their denials. Yet Yuriy Lutsenko, the ...
Newsweek
November 8, 2017
As Ukraine's (pro-Russian) President Leonid Kuchma's second term was coming to end, Kuchma made a deal in 2004 with Putin to create a ...
New Republic
November 7, 2017
Kravchuk lost this election to Leonid Kuchma, whose orientation was not as Western, although he aspired toward Ukraine's eventual ...
Eurasia Daily
November 1, 2017
... first Chair of the Board of Naftogaz of Ukraine, since Oct 2003 to Dec 2004, he was head of the administration of President Leonid Kuchma.
HuffPost
October 31, 2017
Yanukovych served as governor in Ukraine's eastern region of Donetsk in the late 1990s and early 2000s, before President Leonid Kuchma ...
Kyiv Post
October 29, 2017
The slowdown in the early 2000s was seen as a problem by then-Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, who caused it in the first place, and tried ...
Kyiv Post
October 23, 2017
The events have also been compared to ex-President Leonid Kuchma's order to deport to Georgia journalist Georgy Gongadze, who was later ...
The Stopru
October 19, 2017
This was after a meeting of the Trilateral contact group in his Facebook reported the press Secretary of Leonid Kuchma Darka olifer. “… with a ...
Interfax-Ukraine
October 19, 2017
... spokeswoman for Leonid Kuchma, the former president of Ukraine and Kyiv's representative to the trilateral group, wrote on her Facebook ...
Consortium News
October 14, 2017
... three former presidents of Ukraine (Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yushchenko) called on the post-Maidan regime to renounce ...
KTVQ Billings News
October 13, 2017
2004 - President Leonid Kuchma declines to run for a third term and endorses Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Russian President Vladimir ...
Mediamax.am (blog)
October 12, 2017
... signed an Agreement on military cooperation in the framework of the official visit of the Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma to Yerevan.
Kyiv Post
October 6, 2017
... to life for this murder in 2013, but others implicated in the crime, including former President Leonid Kuchma, have never been charged.
Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
October 5, 2017
Darka Olifer, the spokesperson for Ukraine's representative in the group, former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, wrote this on Facebook.
Interfax-Ukraine
October 5, 2017
Five servicemen have been killed and another 37 injured during the ceasefire," Darka Olifer, a spokesperson of Leonid Kuchma, the second ...
Kyiv Post
October 4, 2017
... in Donbas, said press secretary of the second president of Ukraine, the country's representative in the group Leonid Kuchma, Darka Olifer.
Kyiv Post
September 21, 2017
... Olifer, the press secretary of second president of independent Ukraine and Ukrainian envoy to the Trilateral Contact Group Leonid Kuchma.
TASS
September 20, 2017
Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, who represents Kiev in the Contact Group on resolving the crisis, said that peacekeeping units should be deployed ...
TASS
September 15, 2017
... of the situation in Donbass, Ukraine's former president Leonid Kuchma told reporters at Friday's annual conference dubbed "Yalta European Strategy" ("YES").
Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
September 15, 2017
The representative of Ukraine in the Trilateral Contact Group on the settlement of the situation in Donbas, Leonid Kuchma, believes that ...
Kyiv Post
September 8, 2017
... president (1994-2005) of independent Ukraine Leonid Kuchma doubts that peacekeeping troops will be introduced in Ukrainian territory.
Eurasia Daily
December 31, 1999
Thus, Warsaw made an attempt to review the consensus in relations between the countries reached in 2003 by Leonid Kuchma and Alexander ...
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