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Ukraine: President Yushchenko
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Ukraine is a presidential parliamentary republic, with the authority divided between the President (Head of the executive power), Verkhovna Rada (legislative power, Parliament) and court system. Political life is characterized by a great number of political parties. The main law is the Constitution adopted in 1997.
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Analysts observe that it seems as if President Yushchenko of Ukraine, on the eve of the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Ukraine, is trying not to further irritate Russia and in doing so he is trying to keep a distance from Georgia. The Georgian media has observed that President Saakashvili seems to have become a little upset about this.
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For the people of Ukraine, the future is gloomy. The pro-American claimant for Presidency Victor Yushchenko is a devotee of neo-liberal economics; a supporter of full privatisation and forced sale of Ukrainian assets to US companies for their soon-to-be-worthless dollars. In the part of Ukraine he will succeed in keeping (if any), a new American colony will be established, where US troops will threaten Moscow and control the profitable oil route. They could learn of their fate from an amazing book by
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Russia has shown that it will go far to keep Ukraine under its control to serve as a buffer, as exemplified by Moscow's recent natural gas cutoff. With increasing aggressive activity by Russia on the Crimean Peninsula, and Moscow keen on retaining control over natural gas transit, Russia will seek to influence the elections. It will go about this more quietly than it did in 2004. Whereas Putin personally supported Yanukovich's presidential candidacy before, this time Moscow is sticking to financial support, mostly routed through figures such as Akhmetov.
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The American Embassy in Kiev has urged American citizens resident in Ukraine to remain alert to the possibility of election-related rallies, demonstrations, and disturbances following Ukraine's presidential election held Sunday, November 21, 2004. The election results are in dispute and a large number of police forces have assembled around the rallies in Kiev. Expectations of counterdemonstrations make the potential for disorder even greater.
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On July 6, 1990, the legislature proclaimed Ukraine's sovereignty. In August 1991, a failed three-day military coup of the Kremlin's would-be dictators led to the Declaration of Independence by the Verhovna Rada (Parliament) on August 24. On December 1, in a nationwide referendum, 93% of Ukraine's citizens voted for an independent Ukraine and chose Leonid Krawchuk, former communist ideologist, as their first democratically elected President. On July 10, 1994, Leonid Kuchma, former director of the world's biggest rocket plant, defeated Leonid Krawchuk to become the second President of independent Ukraine.
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