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"THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT" Year 04, Number 180
The Action Ukraine Coalition (AUC), Washington, D.C.
Ukrainian Federation of America (UFA), Huntingdon Valley, PA
morganw@patriot.net, ArtUkraine.com@starpower.net (ARTUIS)
Washington, D.C.; Kyiv, Ukraine, MONDAY, October 4, 2004
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"Major International News Headlines and Articles"
1. REUTERS NEWS AGENCY SAID TO USE FAKE DOCUMENT IN
ITS SEPTEMBER 28 NEWS STORY ABOUT VIENNA HOSPITAL'S
STATEMENT ON VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO'S ILLNESS
President of Vienna hospital says in a statement the press reports from
28 September [Reuters story] which said that poisoning could be ruled
out are false and are denied.
Source: TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 3 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, In English, Sun, October 3, 2004
2. REUTERS NEWS STORY FROM VIENNA REGARDING HOSPITAL
AND VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO'S POSSIBLE POISONING IMMEDIATELY
RAISED SERIOUS QUESTIONS AND SUSPICIONS ABOUT ITS TRUTH
By E. Morgan Williams, Publisher and Editor
THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT
Washington, D.C., Monday, October 4, 2004
3. THE "INFAMOUS" REUTERS STORY OF SEPTEMBER 28
"UKRAINE CANDIDATE WAS NOT POISONED--HOSPITAL"
REUTERS, Vienna, Austria, Tue, 28 Sep 2004, 21:02:54 GMT
4. YUSHCHENKO'S WIFE PLANS TO APPLY FOR UKRAINIAN
NATURALIZATION WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS
ITAR-TASS, Moscow, Russia, Sun, October 3, 2004
5. UKRAINIAN MEDIA TOLD TO DISCREDIT PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO
Source: Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, in Ukrainian 1 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, October 1, 2004
6. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO
INSISTS HE WAS DELIBERATELY POISONED
Source: Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, in Ukrainian 30 Sep 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Thu, Sept 30, 2004
7. VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO SAYS AS MANY FOREIGN OBSERVERS
AS POSSIBLE SHOULD BE IN INVOLVED IN MONITORING ELECTION
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 2 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Sat, Oct 02, 2004
8. PROGOVERNMENT TV SAYS YUSHCHENKO CHRONICALLY ILL
Source: Inter TV, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 1 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Fri, October 1, 2004
9. UKRAINIAN TV ACCUSES VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO OF LYING
ABOUT HIS HEALTH AND ORIGINS OF MYSTERY ILLNESS
Source: ICTV television, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 3 Oct 04
Provider: BBC Monitoring Service, in English, Sun, October 3, 2004
10. MILITARY EQUIPMENT WILL NOT BE USED IN OCTOBER 28
PARADE COMMEMORATING SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF
UKRAINE'S LIBERATION FROM THE FASCISTS
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Fri, October 1, 2004
11. UKRAINE BUILDS ARMOURED RIVER BOAT FOR UZBEKISTAN
UNDER U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT CONTRACT
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 2 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Sat, Oct 02, 2004
12. POLISH CERSANIT TO BUILD FACTORY FOR BATHROOM AND
LAVATORY EQUIPMENT IN KOROSTEN, ZHYTOMYR REGION
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wed, September 29, 2004
13. "KUCHMA AND THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION"
By Bishop Paul Peter Jesep, Cleveland, Ohio
The Action Ukraine Report, Washington, D.C., Friday, October 1, 2004
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-04, No.180: ARTICLE NUMBER ONE
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1. REUTERS NEWS AGENCY SAID TO USE FAKE DOCUMENT IN
ITS SEPTEMBER 28 NEWS STORY ABOUT VIENNA HOSPITAL'S
STATEMENT ON VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO'S ILLNESS
President of Vienna hospital says in a statement the press reports from
28 September [Reuters story] which said that poisoning could be ruled
out are false and are denied.
Source: TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 3 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, In English, Sun, October 3, 2004
KIEV - The campaign manager of opposition presidential candidate Viktor
Yushchenko has said that false information is being spread to cast doubt on
allegations that Yushchenko was poisoned by his opponents.
Speaking during an unscheduled news bulletin on opposition-leaning 5 Kanal
on 3 October, Zinchenko described as a fabrication a 28 September statement
saying that doctors at the Vienna hospital where Yushchenko is undergoing
medical treatment after falling ill in early September had ruled out that he
was deliberately poisoned.
Zinchenko said that the unsigned statement, which was printed on the
letterhead of the Rudolfinerhaus hospital, was a fabrication produced by a
public relations company called (?Tri Media). The statement said, "The
information disseminated about an alleged poisoning is absolutely unfounded
in medical terms." The statement was quoted by a number of media
organizations, including the Reuters news agency.
Zinchenko quoted another document he said he had received from the
Rudolfinerhaus on 3 October in which its President Michael Zimpfer said: "I
would like to report and specify the following as an addition to the
statement of 28 September, which I did not sign or authorize, and which, a
priori, could be interpreted as ruling out poisoning. The exogenous cause in
the sense of the poisoned [as heard] is being studied. Poisoning through
negligence or otherwise cannot be confirmed or denied. The press reports
from 28 September which said that poisoning could be ruled out are false and
are denied in this statement." -30-
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2. REUTERS NEWS STORY FROM VIENNA REGARDING HOSPITAL
AND VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO'S POSSIBLE POISONING IMMEDIATELY
RAISED SERIOUS QUESTIONS AND SUSPICIONS ABOUT ITS TRUTH
By E. Morgan Williams, Publisher and Editor
THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT
Washington, D.C., Monday, October 4, 2004
WASHINGTON - The REUTERS news article issued from Vienna on
Tuesday evening, September 28th, at 21:02:54 GMT headlined "Ukraine
Candidate Was Not Poisoned--Hospital" arrived in my computer at 6:17
p.m. EST. There were several things about the article that did not ring
true and I started sending the Reuters article around indicating
serious concerns about its authenticity. [The complete Reuters article is
published below as article three or can be found at the following link:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28387715.htm.]
The items related to the Reuters story that did not seem to have the ring of
truth about them and raised serious questions with us and others we were
in contact with were as follows:
1. The article was issued at 10 p.m. London time. This was long after the
official administrative offices at the Vienna Rudolfinerhaus Hospital had
closed. Normally such a story would have been issued earlier and not held
until 10 p.m. London time.
2. REUTERS seemed to be the only news agency that had the story even
though the Reuters article said that an official statement had been issued
by the hospital. Hospitals like this one in Vienna do not feed major
stories like this to just one news agency.
3. The quotes in the article reported by the Reuters journalists to have
been taken from an official statement issued by the hospital did not seem
anywhere close to ones that a person would expect to come from such
a outstanding Austrian hospital.
4. The headline of the Reuters article and the statements in the article
indicated the hospital had changed the statements it had previously made
in which said they could not confirm Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned and
they could not confirm he was not poisoned. The hospital changing its
statements on this important issue did not make any sense at this period
of time in the hospital's work on this case.
The Reuters article started out by saying, "Allegations that Ukrainian
presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned are baseless,
an Austrian hospital that treated him said on Tuesday." Anyone who had
been following this story had to question such a lead sentence. This
sentence just did not have the ring of truth in it for sure.
5. The Reuters article had in it several key quotes it said came from the
Hospital. Then the Reuters article said the hospital was going to hold a
press conference on Wednesday to discuss the case. This did not seem
accurate as normally such key quotes would have been held until the press
conference and not released in advance in a written statement.
6. It had also been reported that members of various Ukrainian Security
Services were in Vienna interviewing persons about this situation. The
activities of Ukrainian Security Services almost always raise questions and
suspicions.
The Action Ukraine Report was provided with information on Wednesday
last week, from private and public reliable sources, which further indicated
the Reuters story was probably not accurate and seems to have been
based on a fake document and totally unreliable sources.
1. Key people close to Viktor Yushchenko were not aware in advance
that any printed statement was to be issued by the hospital on Tuesday
and was not aware that the hospital was going to hold a press conference
on the subject of Viktor's illness on Wednesday. These people would
have known for sure if the Yushchenko family had been notified of this
by the hospital. The Yushchenko team only found out about these
matters from the Reuters article. This absolutely is not the way any
reputable hospital handles such matters. Channel 5 TV, Kyiv,
reported on Wednesday, "The report from Vienna [Reuters] caught
Yushchenko's headquarters by surprise."
2. A lead doctor on this case in Vienna was also not aware of any
statement by the hospital on Tuesday or any scheduled press conference
on Wednesday. This information was reported by Channel 5 TV
later on Wednesday after they called Dr. Korpan.
We had prepared most of this article over this last weekend for
publication in today's [Monday, October 4] Action Ukraine Report
with additional information we had obtained. We were ready to go
public with our concern and questions about the Reuters article. But
with the release on Sunday of a statement from the president of the
hospital about the Reuters article saying it was based on a fake
document and could be ruled as false the additional background
information we were going to publish has now become superseded
by the new information.
HOSPITAL SAYS SEP 28 REUTERS PRESS REPORT FALSE
According to TV Channel 5 in Kyiv Sunday night, October 3, Viktor's
Yushchenko's campaign manager Oleksander Zinchenko said he had
received a letter from the President of the Vienna hospital, Michael
Zimpfer, which said: "I would like to report and specify the following
as an addition to the statement of 28 September, which I did not sign or
authorize, and which, a priori, could be interpreted as ruling out
poisoning.
The exogenous cause in the sense of the poisoned [as heard] is being
studied. Poisoning through negligence or otherwise cannot be confirmed
or denied. The press reports from 28 September which said that poisoning
could be ruled out are false and are denied in this statement." [Report on
Channel 5 in Ukrainian as reported in English by the BBC Monitoring
Service]
MAJOR NEWS MEDIA QUICKLY PICK UP REUTERS ARTICLE
Questionable article spread around the world
What was so alarming about the Reuters article, issued on Tuesday night,
was the fact that even though it immediately raised questions in many
people's minds about its reliability, many major news services quickly
copied the story and distributed it around the world on Wednesday.
These news services did not take the time to check out the story with the
hospital or other sources that could have provided data that would have
questioned the information in the Reuters article. These news media either
just copied the Reuters story or lifted key parts of it and ran with their
own stories. Examples of such follow-up news articles are:
1 BBC NEWS -- BBC NEWS issued their story at 9:28 GMT, 10:28
UK time on Wednesday, September 29th. The headline was, "MEDICS
REJECT UKRAINE 'POISONING." The sub-headline said, "Austrian
doctors have dismissed allegations by Ukraine's main opposition leader,
Viktor Yushchenko, that he was poisoned by his opponents." The BBC
article seems to be based on the Reuters' article even though no credit was
given to Reuters in the BBC release. The BBC NEWS article can be
read at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3699748.stm
2. RFE/RL -- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty issued a news story
from Prague on Wednesday, September 29th. The RFE/RL headline was,
"HOSPITAL SAYS YUSHCHENKO NOT POISONED." RFE/RL did
indicate their article was taken from Reuters. The link to this story is;
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/09/1cf59c90-a1f6-441f-88f3-e8b3d5d
4c6c3.html [paste link together]
3. VOA -- Voice of America issued their story at 10:31 UTC on Wednesday
the 29th featuring a headline which stated, "YUSHCHENKO NOT POISONED,
AUSTRIAN HOSPITAL SAYS. The VOA release said, "Some information
for this report provided by Reuters. The link to the VOA article is:
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=33D4C029-5089-4CCA-BD1C773445A28
92A&title=Yushchenko%20Not%20Poisoned%2C%20Austrian%20Hospital%20Says&catOID
=45C9C78C-88AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C&categoryname=Europe
[past link together]
4. UKRAINIAN INTER TV - Inter TV in Kyiv reported on September 29
that "DOCTORS DENY REPORTS OF OPPOSITION LEADERS
POISONING" Inter TV quoted directly from the Reuters story. The TV
announcer started his story by saying, "Today's sensation came from
doctors at Vienna's Rudolfinerhaus hospital. They dismissed reports
alleging that they had found that the Our Ukraine leader [Viktor Yushchenko]
had been poisoned. The Reuters news agency said yesterday evening that
the hospital was due to hold a special news conference on this issue."
5. CHANNEL 5 TV-- Channel 5 TV out of Kyiv reported on and quoted
from the Reuters story on Wednesday. They said they took their story from
one they saw reported on Ukrainian Inter TV. In this story Channel 5 says,
"The report from Vienna caught Yushchenko's HQ by surprise."
Channel 5 TV was one of the first to start reporting that the Reuters
story could not be verified. They did this later on Wednesday after they
called Dr. Korpan at the hospital in Vienna who said he did not know
anything about a statement from the hospital and did not know anything
about the hospital's news conference that was to take place according
to the Reuters article. Dr. Korpan was one of the doctors that treated
Viktor Yushchenko.
6. ITAR-TASS -- Itar-Tass out of Moscow issued a story on Wednesday,
September 29th with a headline that said, "YUSHCHENKO WAS NOT
POISONED, AUSTRIAN DOCTORS SAY." Itar-Tass said the source
of their story was Channel 5 TV out of Kyiv. The story can be read at:
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1295016&PageNum=0
7. NEW YORK TIMES -- The New York Times carried the Reuters
story in their newspaper on Wednesday, September 29th, but with a
shortened text. The Times headline was: "POISON ASSERTION
REJECTED." The New York Times article link is:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/29/international/europe/29ukraine.html
REUTERS SHOULD NOW COME CLEAN AND TELL THE WORLD
ABOUT THE FAKE DOCUMENT AND QUESTIONABLE SOURCES
Unfortunately major damage was inflicted by the news stories above that
were distributed before it became known later on Wednesday that the
information in the Reuters story was not verified by the hospital in Vienna.
With the statement by the President of the hospital on Sunday Reuters
owes to the Yushchenko family, to Ukraine and many others around
the world a full accounting of the story and how this reportedly "bogus"
story happened to be written by one of Reuters' reporters and published
by Reuters.
Who provided Reuters with the unsigned, fabricated statement printed
on the letterhead of the Rudolfinerhaus hospital? Who is this Tri Media (?)
public relations firm that reportedly produced the false document? Who
paid the public relations firm to design and carry out this reported fraud?
Why did Reuters not check out the basis for the story to see if it was
true and accurate before they quickly ran with the story and spread
information around the world that the president of the hospital in Vienna
now says was totally false?
Once again a major news agency has reportedly published a story
that has reportedly spread misinformation around the world. Reuters
needs to come clean and tell exactly what happened here, apologize,
and publish the truth about their original story. Ukraine had its New York
Times reporter, Walter Duranty, who lied about the Soviet Union and
about the millions of Ukrainians who were murdered by the Soviets
during the genocidal famine of 1932-1933.
Now Ukraine has Reuters, who it is now said officially by the
President of the hospital wrote and distributed false information about
the Vienna hospital and its work regarding a mysterious illness of
Ukrainian presidential candidate, Viktor Yushchenko. Walter Duranty
never did tell the truth about the Soviets and their treatment of Ukraine.
When will we find out the truth from Reuters? -30-
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3. THE NOW "INFAMOUS" REUTERS STORY OF SEPTEMBER 28
"UKRAINE CANDIDATE WAS NOT POISONED--HOSPITAL"
REUTERS, Vienna, Austria, Tue, 28 Sep 2004, 21:02:54 GMT
VIENNA - Allegations that Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor
Yushchenko was poisoned are baseless, an Austrian hospital that
treated him said on Tuesday.
The hospital gave no details about what it believes to be the cause of
Yushchenko's symptoms, but said it would hold a news conference on
Wednesday to discuss the case.
Opposition leader Yushchenko stopped campaigning for an Oct. 31 poll
and flew to Vienna for treatment earlier this month after becoming ill with
what aides said was first thought to be food poisoning but later said was
chemical poisoning.
"False information about Mr. Yushchenko having been poisoned has been
widely disseminated in Ukraine and taken up by the international press, in
which our hospital was directly referred to," Vienna's Rudolfinerhaus
Hospital said in a statement.
"The information disseminated about an alleged poisoning is absolutely
unfounded in medical terms," it said. "In order to silence these rumours ...
the (hospital) has decided to abandon its usual attitude of reserve and
make a public statement."
Yushchenko returned to campaigning 10 days ago and has accused
Ukrainian authorities of poisoning him to remove him from the presidential
contest. He still has difficulty speaking as one side of his face appears
paralysed.
The office of President Leonid Kuchma has dismissed the allegations.
Next month's election marks the end of Kuchma's 10-year stay in power,
marked by scandals, charges of corruption and allegations that the
post-Soviet press is being stifled. Yushchenko, credited with about 30
percent in opinion polls, is expected to go to a run-off against Prime
Minister Viktor Yanukovich, who lies about seven points behind.
Twenty-four candidates are in the race. -30-
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LINK: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28387715.htm
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-04, No.180: ARTICLE NUMBER FOUR
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4. YUSHCHENKO'S WIFE PLANS TO APPLY FOR UKRAINIAN
NATURALIZATION WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS
ITAR-TASS, Moscow, Russia, Sun, October 3, 2004
KIEV - The wife of Our Ukraine opposition bloc leader and presidential
candidate Viktor Yushchenko, Yekaterina [Kateryna Chumachenko], told
the Zerkalo Nedeli Kiev-based weekly on Saturday that she would change
her naturalization [citizenship] from American to Ukrainian.
Yekaterina Yushchenko said she would apply for Ukrainian naturalization
within the next few days. She said other presidential candidates "are using
her name in counter-campaign technologies because they cannot blackmail her
husband." "Political opponents to Yushchenko are trying to present me as a
spy and thus compromise him," she said.
Yekaterina Yushchenko says she is an ethnic Ukrainian, because her parents
were born and grew up in Ukraine. The parents were taken away to Germany
in the Second World War years, and got acquainted there. They moved to the
United States afterwards. Yekaterina married Viktor Yushchenko (that was his
second marriage) and took residence in Kiev in 1999.
Presidential candidate Alexander Bazilyuk makes the most frequent references
to the U.S. citizenship of Viktor Yushchenko's wife. He calls on the United
States and the CIA not to interfere with internal affairs of Ukraine. Not
long ago Bazilyuk sent an open letter to the parliament speaker. He demanded
amendments to the presidential election law so that individuals, who have
foreign citizens in their families and do not declare their incomes, are
barred from future election campaigns.
There are 23 presidential candidates in Ukraine, but sociologists [?] say
that only two, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich and Viktor Yushchenko,
have a chance to win. The election will be held on October 31. -30-
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5. UKRAINIAN MEDIA TOLD TO DISCREDIT PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO
Source: Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, in Ukrainian 1 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, October 1, 2004
KIEV - A Ukrainian opposition web site has published what is says are the
authorities' instructions to the media on covering the alleged poisoning of
the frontrunning opposition presidential candidate, Viktor Yushchenko.
His allegations that the poisoning was deliberate and orchestrated by the
authorities were "misleading", the media were reportedly told to say.
The presidential administration also supposedly told the media to focus on
critical statements about Yushchenko made by the Prosecutor-General's
Office and the election HQ of his main rival, Prime Minister Viktor
Yanukovych. The article is illustrated with a photo of Joseph Goebbels,
the Nazi propaganda minister.
The following is an excerpt from an unattributed report published
by the Ukrayinska Pravda web site on 1 October:
The recent tensions in the election campaign have provoked a predictable
reaction from the presidential administration. What you see here are
excerpts from temnyky [coverage instructions] issued in the last two days
and made available to Ukrayinska Pravda by a reliable source.
It is not difficult to see that the presidential administration's
instructions sent to the channels it controls ban the coverage of most
topics. The last temnyk is the most interesting one. The authorities have
used their customary methods to put out the fire surrounding the poisoning
of the frontrunning presidential candidate [opposition leader Viktor
Yushchenko] - lies, misinformation and twisting. [Passage omitted:
coverage of various events banned]
Attention 30.09.2004 1300
1. The Prosecutor-General's Office of Ukraine issued a statement on
29 September. [Preceding sentence emboldened in original]
As was reported earlier, the Prosecutor-General's Office of Ukraine has
opened and is investigating a criminal case related to the illness of
presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
It has been established that Viktor Yushchenko developed symptoms of
the illness on 6 September this year, i.e. the day after visiting Chernihiv
Region. Thanks to media coverage, it is perfectly clear what presidential
candidate Viktor Yushchenko was doing and eating while on the visit.
It is only on 9 September that Viktor Yushchenko started receiving inpatient
treatment at the Vienna hospital that has now become so famous. On 18
September, after returning to Ukraine, he categorically stated that there
had been a deliberate attempt to poison him.
There is no doubt that the investigation's main task is to fully,
objectively and thoroughly establish all the circumstances which can be
related to the case. However, presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko
himself and certain members of parliament from his entourage are avoiding
the investigators.
In the course of the investigation, investigators from the Prosecutor-
General's Office of Ukraine asked Viktor Yushchenko, his campaign
manager Oleksandr Zinchenko and certain members of parliament from
his entourage to provide whatever material they have and take part in the
necessary investigative actions. However, no reaction to our requests was
forthcoming. More than that, Viktor Yushchenko is avoiding a forensic
examination, knowing perfectly well that it alone can establish the
circumstances and causes of the disease.
The prosecutor's office declares its readiness to carry out a full,
objective and thorough investigation into the case and establish all
circumstances of the incident, involving foreign experts. It sees any
refusal to meet investigators' legitimate demands as an attempt to
obstruct their activity.
Also on 29 September, a statement for the media was made public by
the election headquarters of presidential candidate [and Prime Minister]
Viktor Yanukovych. [Preceding sentence emboldened in original]
The foreign media have said that reports by Viktor Yushchenko and his
entourage about the causes of his illness, alleging deliberate poisoning,
have turned out to be unsubstantiated.
Voters are very concerned about the presidential candidate's health.
Therefore, it is desirable that truthful information about Viktor
Yushchenko's health be made public. Voters should make an informed
choice.
Let us call a spade a spade. Presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko
has misled the Ukrainian public and must now make a public apology.
This sort of behaviour does not concern the candidate alone. It discredits
the Ukrainian political scene and has prompted, first of all, the
international community to make humiliating conclusions about the practice
of political competition in Ukraine.
Speculations on Yushchenko's health, in which his entourage is indulging,
has prompted an unequivocal attitude to Ukrainian politics and to our
country. He must honestly acknowledge this in front of the whole of the
Ukrainian people.
As regards the real state of his health, we wish Viktor Yushchenko a speedy
recovery and a resumption of political dialogue worthy of the principles of
contemporary democracy.
Comment [preceding word emboldened in original]. The event is important
and topical. Analysts believe that the media will pay close attention to the
above information in detailed reports about the publicity surrounding
Yushchenko's illness, featuring comments from Mps. The main ideological
message of the reports is that Yushchenko and his entourage deliberately
misled the public, staging an alleged poisoning attempt, that they are eager
to win the election by telling blatant lies and making groundless
accusations against their political opponents. -30-
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6. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO
INSISTS HE WAS DELIBERATELY POISONED
Source: Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, in Ukrainian 30 Sep 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Thu, Sept 30, 2004
[Ukrainian opposition leader and presidential candidate] Viktor Yushchenko
has told his headquarters to made available to a parliamentary investigative
commission all official records dealing with his illness, which were issued
by the Rudolfinerhaus hospital [in Vienna, Austria].
Yushchenko's web site says that he also allowed the commission to
familiarize itself with his medical records in Kiev. Yushchenko said this to
journalists in Vienna where he arrived on a scheduled flight to undergo
additional medical treatment. He was accompanied by his wife Kateryna
and his youngest son Taras.
Yushchenko called on the Ukrainian press "to stop any speculations on his
health and manipulations of the diagnosis". "The doctors have confirmed the
diagnosis, all the other questions should be answered by Ukraine's state
agencies," Yushchenko said. He added that he is ready "to fully cooperate"
with the investigative commission and would meets its representatives upon
his return to Kiev.
Asked about his condition, Yushchenko said: "Do not worry about my health.
I am a mountaineer, I go in for sport, my organism is strong. I have
survived this story and I am confident of my full recovery."
"But, of course, there are some questions to be answered on how this set of
diseases could knock down a healthy and physically strong man in a few
days," Yushchenko said. There is no point to discuss whether "the poisoning
was caused by an envelope, something in the food or an aerosol", Yushchenko
said. "The presidential campaign is under way in Ukraine. This is the main
issue of the year," Yushchenko said. "When the leader of race and the main
opponent of the authorities is suddenly knocked out of the campaign for a
month, this raises some questions... [ellipsis as published]," Yushchenko
said.
Yushchenko believes that what has happened to him was an attempt to make
"uncompetitive" the most popular candidate, thus "making space for the
pro-authorities candidate", Yushchenko said. "If someone still speculates on
crayfish, kumiss and port fat as causes of the illness - this is the ration
consumed by both the prosecutor-general and the prime minister. But the
progress of the election campaign forces us to say that there are reasons to
talk about an attempt on a life rather than a menu," Yushchenko said.
As was reported earlier, Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Hennadiy Vasylyev made
indignant remarks about kumiss and crayfish after Yushchenko's poisoning.
[See UNIAN news agency, Kiev, in Ukrainian 1356 gmt 22 Sep 04]
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7. VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO SAYS AS MANY FOREIGN OBSERVERS
AS POSSIBLE SHOULD BE IN INVOLVED IN MONITORING ELECTION
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 2 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Sat, Oct 02, 2004
KIEV - Ukrainian [opposition] presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko
has said in a telephone conversation with EU High Representative for Common
Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana that as many foreign observers as
possible should be involved in monitoring the [October presidential]
election in Ukraine. Yushchenko's press service said this to UNIAN.
Yushchenko expressed confidence that "the destiny of Ukrainians is in the
hands of Ukrainians, but the closest neighbours should be interested in the
real development of the young Ukrainian democracy". The conversation was
initiated by Solana, who asked Yushchenko about his state of health. Solana
wished Yushchenko a speedy recovery.
[Yushchenko went to a clinic in Vienna, Austria, to resume medical checks
and treatment. Earlier Yushchenko said in parliament that the authorities
had poisoned him on 19 September, but representatives of the clinic were
unable to confirm whether Yushchenko's serious illness had been caused by
poisoning, see Korrespondent.net web site, Kiev, in Russian 30 Sep 04.]
In the lengthy telephone conversation, Yushchenko expressed his view on the
development of the election campaign, saying that numerous violations of the
campaign law and the use of government resources show that there are serious
discrepancies between the authorities' statements about a democratic
election and their true actions. He said that he would do his best to make
vote-rigging impossible. The two men also expressed concern at the lack of
the freedom of speech in Ukraine and at the way the campaign is being
covered by the government-controlled media.
Solana said that the EU views Ukraine as its key neighbour and strategic
partner and that it calls on Ukrainian politicians to do their utmost to
carry out a free and democratic election in the state. Yushchenko and Solana
said that the Ukrainian presidential election has drawn the attention not
only of the Ukrainian society but also of the entire Europe, which is why
everyone should be interested in a democratic election. Solana said the EU
insists that Ukraine should honour its previous statements about democratic
aspirations and that it should pass this democracy test.
Commenting on [Ukraine's] European integration, they said that recent
statements by the Ukrainian authorities, who demonstrate foreign policy
fluctuations every day, are a cause for concern. "Ukraine's foreign policy
has currently become the hostage of the election campaign," Yushchenko said.
[The prime minister and progovernment presidential candidate, Viktor
Yanukovych, told the heads of leading Russian media organizations in Kiev
that joining NATO would not benefit Ukraine economically, see Inter TV,
Kiev, in Russian 1700 gmt 27 Sep 04.] -30-
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8. PROGOVERNMENT TV SAYS YUSHCHENKO CHRONICALLY ILL
Source: Inter TV, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 1 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Fri, October 1, 2004
KIEV - [Presenter] The media linked to [opposition bloc] Our Ukraine
today publicized [bloc leader and presidential candidate] Viktor
Yushchenko's diagnosis made by doctors in Vienna. The media said this
was done to end speculations on this issue.
[Correspondent] If the published document is to be believed, two weeks ago
the Our Ukraine leader was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis accompanied
by interstitial oedematous changes of the second degree, an acute ulceration
in the stomach, reflux-esophagitis of the second degree, acute
proctocolitis, atypical segmental skin disease caused by viruses, peripheral
paresis and left-side otitis.
Viktor Yushchenko's HQ said that the Our Ukraine leader had been
absolutely healthy before he developed all those conditions. Yushchenko
himself said yesterday that he did not suffer from any chronic diseases.
However, this turned out to be not exactly the case. Judging from the Our
Ukraine leader's case history, which was received by the parliamentary
commission [investigating Yushchenko's alleged poisoning] and quickly
published by the Rehnum news agency, which quoted a source at the
commission, Yushchenko has been suffering from chronic gastritis, colitis,
cholecystitis, an inflammation of the duodenum and diabetes of the second
type for many years.
Basically, this set of diseases is typical for many state servants because
of their lifestyle. Patients diagnosed with these diseases should stick to a
strict diet. Otherwise, serious consequences may follow. According to the
same case history, in January 1992 Yushchenko had an attack which had
been provoked by a mere dish of borsch with sour cream. Even more
surprising is the decision by the Our Ukraine leader to visit a sauna, have
lard with garlic, kumiss and mineral water after he had felt symptoms of
the disease.
However, all the i's should be dotted by a probe launched by the
Prosecutor-General's Office and an ad-hoc parliamentary commission.
[Yushchenko was taken to a hospital in Vienna with serious poisoning on 10
September. He said the poisoning was deliberate and accused the authorities
or trying to remove him from the presidential election race. Inter TV is
linked to the presidential administration chief, Viktor Medvedchuk.]
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9. UKRAINIAN TV ACCUSES VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO OF LYING
ABOUT HIS HEALTH AND ORIGINS OF MYSTERY ILLNESS
Source: ICTV television, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 3 Oct 04
Provider: BBC Monitoring Service, in English, Sun, October 3, 2004
KIEV - A Ukrainian TV channel has accused opposition presidential candidate
Viktor Yushchenko and his team of lying about his health and the origins of
a mystery illness that has prevented him from campaigning for the last
month. In a 40-minute report about Yushchenko's illness on the "Dokladno"
(In Detail) analytical programme on the ICTV TV channel on 3 October,
presenter Dmitriy Kiselev also accused Yushchenko of making unfounded
allegations that he had been poisoned by his political opponents.
Kiselev said that Yushchenko had lied when he told an ICTV correspondent on
30 September that he was completely healthy and that he did not suffer from
any chronic diseases. Kiselev said that Yushchenko's medical records for the
last 10 years, which the prosecutor's office has released to the ad hoc
parliament commission investigating the alleged poisoning, show that he has
suffered from chronic gastro-intestinal conditions.
"Yushchenko could not fail to know of the contents of his own medical
records... Saying categorically that he had no chronic diseases, Yushchenko
was telling our correspondent an outright lie," Kiselev said.
Kiselev said that the doctors who treated Yushchenko at the Rudolfinerhaus
clinic in Vienna, where he was taken to Vienna for treatment on 10 September
after falling ill in early September, have not confirmed that Yushchenko was
deliberately poisoned or even that he was suffering from poisoning. He
described allegations that Yushchenko was deliberately poisoned as "not
medical, but political". He said that Yushchenko's statement in parliament
on 21 September, when he accused the authorities of attempting to murder
him, was equivalent to a lie.
Kiselev also criticized Yushchenko's campaign manager, Oleksandr Zinchenko,
for failing to fulfil a pledge to provide ICTV with official documents from
the Rudolfinerhaus indicating that chemical substances were found in
Yushchenko's body. "Unkept promises are also a deception," Kiselev said.
Kiselev then presented a pair of documents obtained from the Rudolfinerhaus.
He described one of them as a preliminary diagnosis signed by three doctors,
including Ukrainian-born surgeon Mykola Korpan, and the other as a diagnosis
signed only by Korpan. He suggested that Korpan had edited the text of the
preliminary diagnosis to make it appear more categorical by removing a
number of qualifications.
Kiselev said also that Zinchenko had made the text even more categorical
when he announced on September 17 that doctors at the Rudolfinerhaus had
established that his health had been affected by "an acute viral infection
and chemical substances that are not usually found in food products".
"Thus, on the basis of a falsification a political lie was born that shook
the country and the world," he said. Kiselev ended the programme quoting a
statement from the Rudolfinerhaus saying they could neither confirm nor deny
that Yushchenko had been poisoned.
At the beginning of the programme, Kiselev said that ICTV has given
objective coverage to the campaign so far. He said that the programme was
not intended to support any candidate but was for the good of society. He
also said that Yushchenko had failed to take up an invitation to appear on
the programme.
ICTV is owned by MP and businessman Viktor Pinchuk, who is also President
Leonid Kuchma's son-in-law. In contrast to the three national channels
linked to the presidential administration, ICTV has previously avoided
showing reports attacking Yushchenko during the campaign. -30-
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10. MILITARY EQUIPMENT WILL NOT BE USED IN OCTOBER 28
PARADE COMMEMORATING SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF
UKRAINE'S LIBERATION FROM THE FASCISTS
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Fri, October 1, 2004
KYIV - The military parade and ceremonial march of veterans that will take
place in Kyiv on October 28 in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary
of Ukraine's liberation from fascist invaders will not involve military
equipment. The press service of the Defense Ministry disclosed this to
Ukrainian News.
According to the press service, the participants in the October 28 parade
will be the same as the participants in the August 24 parade that
commemorated Ukraine's independence anniversary. According to plans,
the march of the veterans will be opened by a T-34 tank from the Great
Patriotic War (this tank is no longer considered military equipment). It
will be followed along Khreschatyk Street by three GAZ-AA and ZiZ
automobiles.
The banners of four Ukrainian and the first Belarussian fronts, whose
members liberated Ukraine from the fascists, will be carried during the
march. Moreover, according to plans, the flags of the hero-cities Kyiv,
Odesa, Sevastopol, and Kerch will also be carried through Khreschatyk
Street.
Forty-one UAZ automobiles will carry veterans of the Great Patriotic War,
heroes of the Soviet Union, laureates of the Order of Glory, and members
of the guerilla movement. The march of the veterans will end with a musical
performance by an orchestra.
The military parade will be commanded by lt. General Mykola Petruk, who
is the head of the Kyiv garrison and the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian
Armed Forces' land troops. Defense Minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk will inspect
the parade. The parade is expected to end with an artillery salvo and
commemorative fireworks.
Earlier, media reports had suggested that the parade commemorating the
sixtieth anniversary of Ukraine's liberation from fascist invaders was
scheduled for October 28 (a few days before the October 31 presidential
elections) in order to bring military equipment to Kyiv to prevent protests
after the presidential elections.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, President Leonid Kuchma directed the
Cabinet of Ministers in April to organize events commemorating the sixtieth
anniversary of Ukraine's liberation from fascist invaders on October 28 and
ensure that war veterans are presented with state awards during the
commemorative events.
In July, Kuchma directed the Cabinet of Ministers to organize a military
parade in Kyiv on October 28 and a commemorative march of veterans of
the Great Patriotic War and make provisions for preparation of Bohdan
Khmelnytskyi and Bravery orders as well as "Defender of the Fatherland"
and "Sixty Years of Liberation of Ukraine from Fascists" medals. The
chairman of the organizing committee for the events is Prime Minister Viktor
Yanukovych. This year's presidential elections will take place on October
31. -30-
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11.UKRAINE BUILDS ARMOURED RIVER BOAT FOR UZBEKISTAN
UNDER U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT CONTRACT
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 2 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Sat, Oct 02, 2004
KIEV - The first armoured river boat, Gyurza [blunt-nosed viper], has
been launched in Kiev. It was built by the Leninska Kuznya shipyard and
commissioned by the US State Department as part of aid to Uzbekistan
in reinforcing its river frontiers. The president of the shipyard, Viktor
Vansovych, told a news conference on Saturday [2 October] that the
boat would be tested in the next few days and would then be delivered
to Uzbekistan by plane.
The chief designer of the Gyurza project, Serhiy Kryvko, said that the
boat is unique due to a combination of its small size and high tactical and
technical characteristics. [Passage omitted: description of the boat]
Kryvko said that the armour of the boat had significantly been reinforced
compared to the original specification. [Passage omitted: description of
the boat's interior]
Vansovych said that another boat of the same class would be built for
Uzbekistan as part of the same contract and that other countries might
commission the boat if all specifications proved true. -30-
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12. POLISH CERSANIT TO BUILD FACTORY FOR BATHROOM AND
LAVATORY EQUIPMENT IN KOROSTEN, ZHYTOMYR REGION
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wed, September 29, 2004
KYIV - Cersanit, a Polish company, is going to build a factory in Korosten,
Zhytomyr region, to produce bathroom and lavatory equipment for residential
construction.
A source in the Zhytomyr Regional Administration disclosed this to Ukrainian
News. Cersanit plans to invest EUR 25 million in the factory, the source
added. Its construction is expected to start in 2005.
The project became viable after lifting of the moratorium on new investment
projects in the territories of priority development, which the parliament
imposed early this year. The Administration also found an investor to build
a homebuilding factory, a project with a tentative budget running into USD
50 million.
Cersanit produces sanitary ware for houses. Zhytomyr is an industrial center
with 60 enterprises producing chemical fiber, glassware, metal structures
and agricultural machinery. -30-
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13. "KUCHMA AND THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION"
By Bishop Paul Peter Jesep, Cleveland, Ohio
The Action Ukraine Report, Washington, D.C., Friday, Oct 1, 2004
". . . [the Ukrainian Orthodox Church] Kiev Patriarchate
will pray for a free and fair presidential election.
We pray that God enlightens people's minds and
doesn't let voters sell their votes for buckwheat,
money or other gifts, and make the wrong decision.
We pray that God sends to both candidates and voters
sincere and true love for their country."
His Holiness Patriarch Filaret
Outgoing President Leonid Kuchma unintentionally made the case in his
last Independence Day speech why Viktor Yushchenko should be elected
Ukraine's next leader. Although the remarks, as reflected in the text, show
a modest sophistication for the leader of Europe's second largest country,
it is an ironic self-indictment of his own policies. In Kuchma's own words,
he suggests why the world has not considered Ukrainian sovereignty
legitimate.
In August 2004, he told an Independence Day gathering that "our
transformations resembled a journey in the wilderness." He refers to
Ukraine as a "province." He suggests a lack of political self-esteem. If
Ukraine regards itself as nothing more than a province in transition then it
will be more inclined to suffer the influences of Russia and be treated as a
second class citizen on the world stage. Ukraine, although it has much to
sort out in the post-Soviet era, need not "journey in the wilderness."
He complained that Ukraine had to "start everything from scratch, from the
beginning, from nothing, using the method of trial and error." Democracy
has a long history dating to ancient Greece, continuing with the signing of
the Magna Carta in England, and of course the American Revolution. Taras
Shevchenko asked in one of his poems "when will we have a Washington."
Perhaps the American experiment in democracy is not the ideal model for
Ukraine, but to suggest, as did Kuchma, that there are no successful
democratic nations for Ukraine to model itself after is absurd.
It is this almost defeatist attitude that has contributed to Ukraine's
struggle to develop into a viable democracy. It is this outlook that makes
him and his anointed successor unable to nurture a national consciousness.
It is for this reason he has shown such extraordinary hostility to a free
press which is one of the few guarantors of an independent country. Of
course Ukraine has had nominal moral support from the West.
In a September 2004 editorial, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski underscored, as
he has so often in the past, that "Unfortunately, over the last several
years the White House has fostered a cult of Putin that has done great harm
to the increasingly isolated Russian democrats . . . Today, many in the
newly independent post-Soviet states fear that in the name of a war
against terrorism the U.S. may also ignore Mr. Putin's intensifying efforts
to encourage manipulated elections in Ukraine . . . There is a basic lesson
for America in all this: For democracy to thrive in Russia, its neighbors
must be truly secure . . ."
President George W. Bush has shown a simplistic black and white attitude
toward foreign policy. A Faustian deal seems to have been struck to allow
Putin extraordinary influence over the sovereignty of Ukraine. Bush thinks
Putin his friend and ally. Politics does make for strange bedfellows. This
relationship, however, has a cost – Ukrainian national consciousness and
long-term democratic stability.
With the brazen calls by Ukraine's northern neighbor for re-integration it
is clear that the Bush Administration's policies in Eastern Europe have
failed. Independent of my submissions to this website that questioned the
current president's commitment to a free Ukraine, one need only read Dr.
Bohdan Vitvitsky's hard hitting and accurate assessment of failed Bush
policies in appearing in the Ukrainian Weekly and then Brama.
Don't think me a partisan Democrat. In fact, I once served on the New
Hampshire Republican State Committee, later as National Vice President
of the Washington D.C. based Republican Ripon Society, and then worked
diligently for U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential candidacy in the
first in the nation primary state before entering seminary and being
consecrated a bishop. More recent, I served on the staff of a Republican
U.S. Senator.
U.S. Senator John McCain recently said: "I fear that in recent years the
United States and Europe have not been fully cognizant of the critical role
Ukraine plays, and as a result, the aspiration of Ukrainians to see their
nation firmly ensconced in the West has drifted." He added, "The United
States and Europe must see Ukraine for what it is – an important, proud,
and populous country in a geo-strategically critical position – a country
with much to offer the West. It would be a terrible blunder if, because of
our inattention and mistakes, we allow Ukraine to slip back into the Russian
orbit."
McCain saw first hand the ongoing threats to Ukraine's fledgling democracy
having traveled their in August with U.S. Senators Susan Collins, Lindsay
Graham, and John Sununu. It's important that McCain speak out about this
issue. It's troubling, however, that despite the public comments of such a
respected national leader the Bush White House still doesn't take Ukraine's
future seriously. Presidential candidate Viktor Yuschecko is fighting
extraordinary odds due, in part, from a corrupt political establishment in
Kiev that Washington's attitude helps to foster.
I've joined with others to write about America's lack of formal interest in
Ukraine. At times I feel redundant making the same points because of the
Washington establishment's indifference. Yet despite all the attention
given to Ukraine by distinguished scholars and elected officials, the Bush
Administration still does little. There isn't much time left before the
October 31st election.
Dr. Vitvitsky offers an intellectual, well-reasoned challenge to
Ukrainian-Americans who blindly vote the GOP ticket. This includes not
just the presidential elections, but local congressional races as well.
Philosophically, I am a traditional-Republican (from the
Javits-Warren-Winant-Lindsay-Rockefeller wing of the party), but it would
be immoral to support any candidate because they share my party affiliation.
Just as important, as a proud citizen of this country, it is wrong to
support an American presidential candidate solely because he would be
pro-Ukraine.
His commentary posted September 30th on ArtUkraine.com merits careful
consideration by approximately 1.5 million Ukrainian-American voters. His
point to those likely to cast a vote in this year's U.S. presidential
election is clear – don't let a political party take you for granted.
Otherwise we, as a community, fall victim to passivity, complacency, and do
an injustice to the memory of Thomas Paine and Taras Shevchenko. -30-
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Bishop Paul Peter Jesep is Chancellor of the Archeparchy and Vicar General
of Public Affairs and Government Relations for the Ukrainian Autocephalous
Orthodox Church-Sobornopravna (UAOC-S) based in Cleveland, Ohio. In
the past, His Grace also a lawyer and political scientist by training,
served on the staff of U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME). Bishop Jesep may
be reached at VladykaPaulPeter@aol.com. The views expressed here are
strictly personal and do not reflect the official position of the UAOC-S.
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