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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-PresidentÃâà...
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 leadersÃâà...
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,Ãâà...
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 isÃâà...
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 intentionÃâà...
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,"Ãâà...
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 andÃâà...
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 RedÃâà...
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, andÃâà...
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, andÃâà...
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. ThusÃâà...
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