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"PUTINISM ON THE MARCH"
"The problem, in Ukraine and others among Russia's anxiously watching
neighbors, is Putin. Perhaps Secretary Powell intended the wide arc of his
scythe to encompass Moscow when he said that corrupt elections cannot
create legitimate governments." [article number one]

"THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT" Year 04, Number 238
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, TUESDAY, November 30, 2004

NOTE: The Action Ukraine Report has increased its production
schedule because of the extraordinary events happening in Ukraine.
We are now publishing two Report's each day, whenever possible,
to try and keep up with the huge flow of very important articles.

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"Major International News Headlines and Articles"

1. "PUTINISM ON THE MARCH"
OP-ED, By George F. Will, Columnist
The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, November 30, 2004; Page A19

2. POLISH PM SAYS EU NEGLECTED UKRAINE FOR TOO LONG
PM Belka criticized Putin's interference in the Ukrainian election
By Katya Andrusz, Bloomberg, Warsaw, Poland, Tue, Nov. 30, 2004

3. YUSHCHENKO AND POLISH PARLIAMENT SPEAKER OLEKSY
DISCUSS SETTLEMENT OF POST-ELECTION CONFLICT
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tue, November 30, 2004 (10:56)

4. RUSSIAN INDEPENDENT RADIO URGES RUSSIA TO
BACK OFF FROM UKRAINE CRISIS
Comments from independent radio commentator Anton Orekh
Ekho Moskvy radio, Moscow, in Russian 0317 gmt 30 Nov 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, November 30, 2004 (03:17)

5. MOSCOW'S DANGEROUS GAME OF UKRAINIAN
ROULETTE COULD BACKFIRE
By Askold Krushelnycky in Kiev
The Independent, London, UK, Tue, 30 November 2004

6. A SOFTER TONE FROM BUSH ON UKRAINE POINTS
TO A QUANDARY FOR U.S.
By Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times
New York, NY, Tue, November 30, 2004

7 PUTIN AGREES TO RESPECT RESULTS OF NEW
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN UKRAINE
Reuters, Berlin, Germany, Tue, November 30, 2004

8. YANUKOVYCH NOT RULING OUT BREAKUP OF UKRAINE
IF COMPROMISE IS NOT REACHED
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, November 30, 2004 (10:12)

9. SECRETARY POWELL: U.S. BACKS UNDIVIDED UKRAINE
UPI, Washington, D.C., Mon, November 29, 2004

10. SENATOR LUGAR DISCUSSES UKRAINE ON FOX NEWS
Fox News, Washington, D.C., Sunday, Nov. 28, 2004

11. UKRAINIAN SPEAKER LYTVYN WANTS SEPARATIST
GOVERNORS PROSECUTED
BBC Monitoring, Kyiv, Ukraine, November 30, 2004 (08:15)

12. ROMANO'S ANALYSIS
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: from Lidia Wolanskyj
Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Published by The Action Ukraine Report
Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 30, 2004

13. "RESPONSE TO WESTERN SKEPTICS AND DECLARATION
OF LOVE AND SUPPORT"
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: From Irina Paliashvili
Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, November 28, 2004
Published by The Action Ukraine Report
Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 30, 2004
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1. "PUTINISM ON THE MARCH"

OP-ED, By George F. Will, Columnist
The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, November 30, 2004; Page A19

Now more than ever, the bedrock idea on which U.S. foreign policy rests is
that the nation's security is enhanced by the spread of democracy. Since
Sept. 11, 2001, the idea has been that security depends on democratization
in nations with slight, if any, traditions of popular sovereignty.

However, the policy of promoting democracy is a sharp scythe that can mow
down more than the persons wielding the tool might intend. In Ukraine's
debased election, Russian President Vladimir Putin twice campaigned for the
candidate who benefited from fraud, violence and other violations of
civilized norms, incidents that seemed to bear Putin's signature. Commenting
on Ukraine, Secretary of State Colin Powell said:

"We cannot accept this result as legitimate because it does not meet
international standards and because there has not been an investigation of
the numerous and credible reports of fraud and abuse."

Which could have been said of President Putin's own reelection earlier this
year. What President Bush said three years ago was that he had "a sense of"
Putin's soul -- formed by 15 years in the KGB -- and liked what he sensed:
"We share a lot of values." Events in Russia have not tempered the
president's reiterated insistence that "freedom is on the march."

Putin stands athwart that march in Russia, where he has marginalized
inconvenient parties, controlled the media and used the criminal justice
system to intimidate potential rival sources of power and social authority.
Now the Kremlin, which issued instructions to Ukrainian state-controlled
media during the presidential campaign, seems determined to export Putinism
to contiguous countries.

Putin calls Viktor Yanukovych's vote a "convincing" victory over Viktor
Yushchenko. He received 46.61 percent in his challenge to the authoritarian
regime that backed Yanukovych, who favors closer relations with Russia, in
the manner of some other "managed democracies" among former Soviet
republics. Yushchenko favors Ukrainian membership in the European Union
and, perhaps, in NATO.

Criminality against Yushchenko's campaign went beyond multiple instances of
violence, intimidation and vote fraud. The Financial Times reports that when
Yushchenko appeared before a large crowd of supporters in Kiev, and his face
filled a large video screen, a woman exclaimed, "Oh, how terrible. He was so
handsome." His pockmarked and scarred features are the result of what seems
to have been a poisoning that felled him hours after dining with the head of
Ukraine's secret service.

Russia's attempt to control Ukraine's destiny is partly a reverberation from
the dissolution of the Soviet empire. Russia's desire to envelop Ukraine
within its sphere of influence is a centuries-old Russian tendency. The
novel impulse at work here is the transformation of "Europe" from a
geographic into a political expression -- and Putin's recoil against that.

In its admirably sharp criticism of Ukraine's election, the European Union
is postulating certain standards of civic hygiene integral to European
identity. If the E.U. extends membership to Turkey, Europe's border will
abut Iraq. And if, in time, Ukraine joins, Europe's border will be within
250 miles of Moscow.

The canon of European literature includes Pushkin, Chekhov, Dostoevsky
and Tolstoy, but that does not settle the question of Russia's identity --
its relationship to Europe. Charles de Gaulle spoke of Europe extending
from the Atlantic (in some of his moods, from the English Channel) to the
Ural Mountains. But there is a lot of Russia -- eight time zones of it --
east of there.

Ukraine has been independent for 13 years -- the length of time between
America's declaration of independence and the election of its first
president, when the cohesion of the national entity was in doubt. Talk of
secession is rife in Ukraine's eastern, Russian-oriented region.

The 19th century featured national consolidations -- the United States,
Germany, Italy, Belgium, etc. Recently, the disintegrative forces of
religion, ethnicity and language have driven events in the former
Yugoslavia, Iraq, the former Soviet Union and elsewhere. Ukraine, where
Catholicism and the Ukrainian language flourish in the west and Orthodox
Christianity and Russian in the east, could be the latest cauldron to boil
over.

The United States, with its foreign policy hostage to January elections by
the Palestinian Authority and those in Iraq, has a stake in Ukrainian events
that is much larger than its leverage. As Lech Walesa, hero of Poland's
liberation, told a mass meeting of Yushchenko's supporters, Poland
supports you but you must do this yourself.

The problem, in Ukraine and others among Russia's anxiously watching
neighbors, is Putin. Perhaps Secretary Powell intended the wide arc of his
scythe to encompass Moscow when he said that corrupt elections cannot
create legitimate governments. -30-
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2. POLISH PM SAYS EU NEGLECTED UKRAINE FOR TOO LONG
PM Belka criticized Putin's interference in the Ukrainian election

By Katya Andrusz, Bloomberg, Warsaw, Poland, Tue, Nov. 30, 2004

WARSAW - Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka said the European Union's
neglect of Ukraine's desire for membership may be in part to blame for the
dispute over the Nov. 21 presidential election results and the country's
divisions.

"What the European Union did is largely ignore the aspirations of Ukraine,''
Belka, 52, said in an interview in his office in Warsaw. "And maybe this is
the result.'' Poland shares a border with Ukraine and before the changes to
the map of Europe after World War II, stretched into what is now western
Ukraine.

Supporters of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko have demonstrated
in the Ukrainian capital Kiev for the past eight days, protesting at
election results they say were fraudulent. Official results gave Prime
Minister Viktor Yanukovych 49 percent and Yushchenko 47 percent.

Authorities in Russian-speaking regions in the east of the country, which
backed Yanukovych, threatened to secede. Ukraine's divisions have also
caused a rift between the EU and Russia, with President Vladimir Putin
backing Yanukovych's victory and the EU accusing President Leonid
Kuchma's government of vote-rigging.

Ukraine carries natural gas from Russia accounting for almost a quarter of
the total consumed by western Europe. It will be one of the world's biggest
grain exporters this year. The Supreme Court may today rule on the fraud
complaint lodged by Yushchenko.

"No matter who wins, be it Yanukovych or be it Yushchenko, there is a deep
split between the one part of the Ukrainian people and the other,'' Belka
said. "For every country, a European perspective is mobilizing, is helping
to forge a abroad political consensus for reforms.''

PUTIN'S INTERFERENCE
Belka criticized Putin's interference in the Ukrainian election. On the eve
of the first round of the elections on Oct. 31, Putin visited Ukraine and
gave television interviews endorsing Yanukovych's candidacy. The Russian
president was one of only two world leaders to congratulate Yanukovych on
his victory -- the other was his ally, Belarus President Alyaksandr
Lukashenko.

"Whatever the solution in Ukraine turns out to be, it may be of some
traumatic character for Russians,'' Belka said. "It was probably premature
for President Putin to become involved in, to engage himself so deeply in
the electoral process. It turned out to be risky.''

Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski travelled to Kiev on Nov. 26 to try
to broker an accord between the two presidential candidates as supporters of
Yushchenko called a general strike, shutting down businesses and government
buildings and blocking roads. A delegation from the Polish parliament was in
Ukraine yesterday to meet the candidates and Kuchma. "This is a very
telling example of how Poland is using its membership of the European
Union,'' Belka said.
'POSITIVE SURPRISE'
For Poland, which joined the EU in May, membership has been a "big,
positive surprise,'' Belka said. A Nov. 5-8 survey of 988 adult Poles for
the Warsaw-based Center for Public Research showed that 77 percent of
respondents are in favor of Poland's membership of the EU, the highest for
more than seven years.

The same survey found that support for Poland's most EU- skeptic party,
Samoobrona, dwindled to 10 percent from 24 percent in April. The party
had campaigned for reduced independence of the central bank and a
renegotiation of the country's accession treaty with the EU. "Those
political parties that bet on euro-skepticism are in a dead alley,'' said
Belka. -30- [The Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service]
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3. YUSHCHENKO AND POLISH PARLIAMENT SPEAKER OLEKSY
DISCUSS SETTLEMENT OF POST-ELECTION CONFLICT

Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tue, November 30, 2004 (10:56)

KYIV - Our Ukraine Coalition leader Viktor Yuschenko and Jozef Oleksy,
the speaker of the Polish Sejm (the lower house of parliament), have held a
discussion on how to settle the post-election conflict in Ukraine. Yuschenko
made this statement to the press.

He said the talks were held within the context of the initiatives raised
during the November 26 roundtable talks that addressed the same matter.
Yuschenko gave high estimates to the mediating role of the Polish part.
"We need mediators who are not inclined to one side or another in the
Ukrainian political process," he underscored.

The Our Ukraine leader said participation of Poland is an important and
friendly step in relation to Ukraine. Yuschenko and Oleksy have tackled
the issues concerning the Ukrainian presidential elections and confidence
or non-confidence in the Central Election Commission. -30-
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4. RUSSIAN INDEPENDENT RADIO URGES RUSSIA TO
BACK OFF FROM UKRAINE CRISIS

Comments from independent radio commentator Anton Orekh
Ekho Moskvy radio, Moscow, in Russian 0317 gmt 30 Nov 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English,. November 30, 2004 (03:17)

MOSCOW - Russian politicians are wrong to make it their business to
intervene in the political standoff in Ukraine after the disputed 21
November poll to choose between presidential contenders Viktor Yanukovych
and Viktor Yushchenko, independent radio commentator Anton Orekh has said.

The comment came after Russian parliament speaker Boris Gryzlov's visit to
mediate in the crisis, the 28 November pro-Yanukovych speech by Moscow
mayor Yuriy Luzhkov, who branded the Yushchenko campaign "an orange
sponsored orgy", and liberal politician Boris Nemtsov's public backing for
Yushchenko.

Orekh said that while dozens of Russians worked for both campaigns, Russian
politicians would do well to avoid controversial statements for fear of
violence flaring up in the neighbouring state. The following is the text of
Orekh's comment on Russian Ekho Moskvy radio on 30 November:

What are we getting ourselves into? Who are we fighting for? We don't have
any friends in Ukraine, yet everybody has got nothing better to do but queue
up to go to Ukraine. Nemtsov, Luzhkov, Gryzlov are already there,
[Pro-Kremlin MP Lyubov] Sliska and [nationalist Vladimir] Zhirinovskiy have
started packing. More will be coming and beating their breasts and making an
awful noise.

I realize that living in Russia is a bit of bore. There is no politics here,
people can vote, but never have any choice. There is nowhere to show off
your silliness and inarticulate eloquence. Ukraine is one opportunity.

There is no denying that Washington had its hairy hand in it. But it was not
the American advisers who stirred up this trouble. All the while, on both
sides, dozens of Russian analysts, spin doctors, image makers and other
chaps who cannot find a job in Russia have been working hard both for
Yanukovych and for Yushchenko. All these slogans and orange and blue colour
codes were created by our people. As long as the Ukrainian election looked
like a carnival in the style of Verka Serdyuchka [a flamboyant Ukrainian pop
singer], this was all fun and fascinating and one has to give credit to the
inventive Moskali [a derogatory Ukrainian term for Russians] who were
eager for a real challenge. However, little by little, matters are sliding
into a real fracas. This is where the big guns, the mayors and deputies,
begin to speak.

Why would we possibly want this? What are we after? Would you like a
Kiev mayor to come to Russia at the height of a political crisis and call
half the Russian people an orange orgy? Would that make you more
enamoured of Ukraine and Ukrainians? Why then should they fall in love
with us after what Luzhkov did to them?

Or is there someone hoping to carve a juicy bit out of Ukraine and join it
to Russia? No chance. No chance, barring a war. Are we really in any
great need of a war in a 50-million strong state next to our borders?

Our authorities made a big mistake by taking the side of one candidate. It
does not matter that the candidate was Yanukovych. It would have been just
as erroneous to back Yushchenko. Because it is rubbish that Yushchenko is
a democrat, just the same as it is rubbish that Yanukovych is Russia's
friend.

This isn't America, where Putin did not risk a thing by campaigning for
Bush. America is far off and no-one there really cares about Putin and his
views. Ukraine is close to home. It is split in two and now we are pushing
one half away. Will that make the other half closer to us, all those eastern
and southeastern regions? It won't. The very next day after Yushchenko gives
them bread and salo [pork fat] they will forget all about Luzhkov and all
the other visitors.

If you don't know what to say, you had better shut up. If you do not have
any real force to back you up, you had better not reveal your weakness.
People can be intimidated or they can be bought off. We have nothing to
intimidate them with and no money to buy them off. Our best course of action
was to sit quietly and mouth the meaningless, conciliatory phrases of the
kind the Russian Foreign Ministry is saying, calling for peace and calm and
eventually sending greetings to whoever is the winner. Now it is too late.

This means that Russia will be backing Yanukovych even more ferociously
and the tougher it gets in Ukraine, the worse off we shall be. -30-
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5. MOSCOW'S DANGEROUS GAME OF UKRAINIAN
ROULETTE COULD BACKFIRE

By Askold Krushelnycky in Kiev
The Independent, London, UK, Tue, 30 November 2004

KIEV - Throughout Ukraine's independence, the old colonial master, Russia,
has sought to draw it back under its command. Moscow's approach to the
presidential election was to ensure that whoever became president would
firmly bind Ukraine to Russia. To that end, they exploited historic
faultlines between the central and western regions, where the Ukrainian
language dominates, and the eastern regions, where millions of ethnic
Russians live.

Vladimir Putin visited Ukraine before both rounds of the election to endorse
the government candidate Viktor Yanukovych, who campaigned for Ukraine's
membership of a new Moscow-led bloc called the "Single Economic Zone".
But, after accusations of ballot-rigging, opposition supporters have
occupied the capital and other cities.

According to government sources, Russia had offered to crush demonstrators
by force and to back it against any international backlash. However,
surprised at the scale of support for Mr Yushchenko, Moscow seems to have
launched a hastily-prepared "Plan B", which has raised the spectre of
separatism.

The opposition believes Russia wants to "Moldovise" Ukraine. In Moldova,
Moscow backed Russian-speaking separatists in a short but bloody conflict to
break away from the Romanian-speaking majority.

It is unclear if the separatist scenario is just a threat or the first step
to break up Ukraine. Moscow may hope that by portraying Mr Yanukovych
as the only man who can keep their country together, Ukrainians will allow
him to become president despite massive election fraud.

Separatism would destabilise Ukraine and delay Mr Yushchenko's plan to join
the European Union and Nato - an agenda that Moscow fears. But many in
eastern Ukraine do not want separatism and this game of Ukrainian roulette
could lead to a conflict dangerously close to Russia's borders. -30-
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6. A SOFTER TONE FROM BUSH ON UKRAINE POINTS
TO A QUANDARY FOR U.S.

By Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times
New York, NY, Tue, November 30, 2004

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 - On the Friday before the disputed Ukrainian
election plunged the former Soviet republic into political crisis, President
Bush asked Senator Richard G. Lugar to carry a letter to Ukraine's departing
president, Leonid D. Kuchma, threatening consequences should there be
improprieties in the voting.

But just over a week later, after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had
declared the results of the election "absolutely clear" even as
international monitors were reporting widespread fraud and abuse, Mr.
Bush took a far more conciliatory position. Speaking near his ranch in Texas
on Monday, he said he hoped the impasse would be resolved in a way that
brought "credit and confidence" to a young democratic government that has
been independent from the former Soviet Union for only 13 years.

The differences in tone and approach reflected what administration officials
said was a delicate quandary for the White House: pushing for
self-determination in Ukraine while trying to preserve America's crucial
relationship with Russia.

Administration officials say they want to avoid a confrontation with Mr.
Putin, but they acknowledge that the election impasse has brought new
tension to a recent strain between the United States and Russia, and that
any resolution is far from clear.

"We've tried to keep this from being a U.S.-Russia issue, partly for
tactical reasons, because it doesn't help us to get to a resolution if you
introduce that into it," said a senior administration official who asked not
to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue. To treat sympathetic
Ukrainians "like a geo-strategic prize of the cold war would insult them,"
he added. "They want to have their own country. It is an issue of who they
are, not a pro-Western or pro-Russian issue."

But the Bush administration, which has long worried that Russian influence
could creep back into the European countries only recently freed from
Communism, has nonetheless stayed closely involved.

Publicly, the United States has condemned the official victory of Viktor F.
Yanukovich, the prime minister and the candidate backed by Russia, over
the official loser, the Western-leaning Viktor A. Yushchenko. Last week,
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell made an unusually tough statement
warning of "serious consequences" to the American-Ukrainian relationship
if the allegations of fraud were not cleared up.

Privately, administration officials have been in regular contact with
Russian and Ukrainian officials to push for compromise. On Monday, Mr.
Powell spoke to the Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, as well as
to Mr. Kuchma, and reaffirmed, Mr. Powell said, "that we hope that the
Ukrainians would find a legal way forward."

Administration officials said that the initial tough statement by Mr.
Powell, who will soon be succeeded by Condoleezza Rice, the national
security adviser, was followed by the more modulated comments in Texas by
Mr. Bush because, by the time the president spoke, the Ukrainians had made
some moves toward compromise and Mr. Bush wanted to encourage their
progress.

But Democrats and other critics of the Bush administration said that the two
statements reflected the perplexing situation the administration faced in
managing the increasingly difficult relationship with Moscow, and that the
president was putting up with too much bad behavior from Mr. Putin.

"The Russians, the Ukrainians and the Europeans all noticed the difference
between the tough, forthright position that Secretary Powell was taking on
his way out the door and the more modulated, equivocal position that the
president took," said Strobe Talbott, the president of the Brookings
Institution and a Russia specialist who was deputy secretary of state under
President Clinton. "The question is whether Secretary-designate Rice will
pick up on what Secretary Powell is setting as the tone, or will she reflect
the more disengaged, tolerant tone of the White House?"

Some administration officials have conceded that they have growing doubts
about Mr. Putin's leadership, and they cite his crackdown on rebels in
Chechnya, his prosecution of business leaders and his interference in the
internal affairs of Georgia. After the massacre of schoolchildren by Chechen
rebels in September, administration officials were stunned when Mr. Putin
lashed out at the United States for suggesting that Russia needed to address
the Chechens' political demands.

"Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White
House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he
leaves you in peace?" Mr. Putin was quoted as telling a group of Western
visitors.

Mr. Bush has so far seemed willing to look past such outbursts because he
still needs Mr. Putin, not least in helping him to press Iran and North
Korea to give up their nuclear weapons programs. Still, Russia specialists
say his involvement in Ukraine in his most serious offense yet in American
eyes.

"The reassertion of Russian influence over Ukraine is the kind of problem
you can't wish away," said Stephen R. Sestanovich, a senior fellow at the
Council on Foreign Relations and the ambassador at large for the former
Soviet Union in the Clinton administration. "It's stopped looking like a
matter of principle and more like a direct challenge to the independence
of other states."

Mr. Sestanovich said that if Mr. Putin backed down, the administration would
avoid a showdown. "We will find it easier to kiss and make up with Putin if
he loses," Mr. Sestanovich said. "If he wins, we'll have to hold it against
him." -30- [The Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service]
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7. PUTIN AGREES TO RESPECT RESULTS OF NEW PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION IN UKRAINE

Reuters, Berlin, Germany, Tue, November 30, 2004

BERLIN (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in a
telephone conversation with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on
Tuesday to respect the results of any new election in Ukraine, the German
government said.

The three-sentence statement from the government suggested a softening of
Moscow's position and appeared to increase the likelihood of a new poll to
resolve a week-old crisis triggered by the country's disputed presidential
election on Nov. 21.

"Chancellor Schroeder and Russian President Vladimir Putin had another
telephone conversation today in which they discussed the situation in
Ukraine," the statement said.

"Their conversation addressed, in particular, the question of how to find a
political solution, assuring Ukraine's territorial integrity and both
parties' ability to enter into talks.

"The chancellor and the Russian president were in agreement that the results
of a new election, based on Ukraine law and the will of the Ukraine people,
would be strictly respected."

Outgoing Ukraine President Leonid Kuchma signaled a shift in position on
Monday, backing the idea of a new poll to defuse a standoff threatening to
tear Ukraine apart. The opposition, led by West-leaning Viktor Yushchenko,
has demanded assurances that any new vote be held quickly.

Until now, Putin has openly supported pro-Moscow candidate Viktor
Yanukovich. Last week he congratulated him on winning the election.
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8. YANUKOVYCH NOT RULING OUT BREAKUP OF UKRAINE
IF COMPROMISE IS NOT REACHED

Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, November 30, 2004 (10:12)

KYIV - Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych is not ruling out the
possibility of the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine breaking
away if the opposition and the government fail to reach a compromise.

The press service of the Cabinet of Ministers disclosed this to Ukrainian
News, citing a meeting between Yanukovych and a Polish parliamentary
delegation headed by the Polish parliament's Speaker Jozef Oleksy.

"If the opposition accepts a compromise, then the process of splitting of
Ukraine can be stopped. Otherwise, the threat of a breakup will be quite
realistic," the press service quoted Yanukovych as saying.

According to Yanukovych, a real threat of economic downturn faces
Ukraine because of the current political instability.

The Polish delegates stressed that Poland is extremely concerned about
the danger of breakup of Ukraine. Yanukovych and the Polish delegation
discussed possible ways of resolving the political and economic crisis in
the country.

Two Polish representatives refused to meet with Yanukovych. "We said
that we did not want to meet with a participant in the falsification of the
elections," said Polish Sejm Deputy Michal Ujazdowski, a member of
the delegation.

"Democracy can overcome a lot, but it will not overcome falsification of
elections," said Polish Sejm Deputy Antoni Macierewicz, another member
of the delegation.

According to Oleksy, Yanukovych told the Polish delegation that he traveled
to the congress in Siverskodonetsk in order to restrain the separatist moves
by the participants in the congress.

Oleksy also met with the Our Ukraine coalition's leader Viktor Yuschenko
on Monday to discuss ways of resolving the conflict triggered by the outcome
of this year's Ukrainian presidential elections. -30-
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9. SECRETARY POWELL: U.S. BACKS UNDIVIDED UKRAINE

UPI, Washington, D.C., Mon, November 29, 2004

Washington, DC - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell Monday supported
Ukraine's territorial integrity amid fears the country could split. Powell
said he was "troubled" by reports Eastern Ukrainians loyal to Prime Minister
Viktor Yanukovych will hold a poll next Sunday to establish a semi-
independent area, adding he had spoken to President Leonid Kuchma
about the issue.

"I reaffirmed to President Kuchma that it is the United States' position,
and I think the position of everyone, that the territorial integrity of
Ukraine is important," he said after a meeting with Bahraini King Hamad
bin Essa al-Khalifa. Powell reiterated the U.S. position the former Soviet
republic find a legal way forward from the impasse surrounding its
presidential election impasse.

Yanukovych has been declared a winner in last week's elections, which
were called flawed. Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has said those
promoting autonomy should be held criminally responsible. Ukraine's
Supreme Court is examining the fraud claims and suspended the official
results. -30- [The Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service]
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10. SENATOR LUGAR DISCUSSES UKRAINE ON FOX NEWS

Fox News, Washington, D.C., Sunday, Nov. 28, 2004

WASHINGTON - United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Chairman Richard G. Lugar discussing Ukraine on Fox News Sunday,
November 28, 2004:

"The news from Ukraine is tremendously important; perhaps the greatest
story in the world right now. What's happening in Ukraine is about the
space of freedom in the world, whether it's going to expand or not.

In this particular election, the government of President Kuchma allowed,
or aided and abetted, wholesale fraud and abuse that changed the results
of the election...And so, Yanukovych did not win the election.

I am inspired by the people in the streets. With the authorities
intimidating the people, the people - young people and old people, too -
pushed back. They are determined to create a space for freedom.

That has not occurred, unfortunately, in Russia, where liberal democracy
has receded. Many Russians hope that Ukraine manages to keep a space
for democracy...There really has to be some hope for the Russian people,
and the other former Soviet republics, that authoritarianism will not
prevail.

That's why Ukraine is so important." -30-
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11. UKRAINIAN SPEAKER LYTVYN WANTS SEPARATIST
GOVERNORS PROSECUTED

BBC Monitoring, Kyiv, Ukraine, November 30, 2004 (08:15)

KYIV - Ukrainian speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn has condemned calls for
autonomy in the eastern regions of Ukraine. Addressing parliament,
Lytvyn described the calls as unconstitutional and criminal.

The governors of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, where Prime Minister
Viktor Yanukovych got an overwhelming majority in the disputed
presidential election, have called for a local referendum on setting up
a southeastern autonomous republic within Ukraine.

Lytvyn said local referendums could only decide local issues and could
not pass decisions affecting Ukraine's constitution or territorial
integrity. "Organizing local referendums to change the territorial system
of the entire country and claiming them to have binding force is an overt
and clear violation of the Ukrainian constitution and laws, and the
organizers such referendums should be prosecuted," Lytvyn said.

"Calls to set up a new autonomy in Ukraine by unconstitutional means are an
incitement to crime under Article 365 of the Criminal Code: abuse of power
and office. "Under these circumstances, there must be a response from all
those vested with the power to react to such actions. Above all these are
the president of Ukraine, the Security Service and the Prosecutor-General
of Ukraine," Lytvyn said.

Commenting on the pro-Russian sentiments in the eastern regions, Lytvyn
said: "Those who say they are close to the Russian Federation than to Kiev
should bear this in mind: legally it is impossible to join Ukrainian regions
to the Russian Federation. This first of all runs counter to Russia's own
legislation and federal laws."

Moscow mayor Yuriy Luzhkov attended a congress in Donetsk Region
on 28 November which called for a referendum on setting up an eastern
autonomy. "The events of the past few days make one think there is an
anti-Ukrainian plan, a part of which is an attempt to split Ukraine
according to different principles including geographically. This is proven
by the fact that even before the election campaign the media were active
in discussing the polar opposite split in the feelings of the Ukrainian
population: west for Yushchenko, east and south for Yanukovich."

He accused "spin doctors" of encouraging a split in Ukraine. Lytvyn said
the ban on some national TV channels imposed in western regions was
also against the law.

He also criticized local councils in western Ukrainian regions for taking
over administrative functions from Kiev-appointed governors. Councils in
Lutsk, Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil have pledged loyalty to opposition
presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko and refused to obey the
governors appointed by President Leonid Kuchma.

He called on parliament to adopt a strongly worded resolution condemning
separatist moves. Lytvyn spoke for 20 minutes. No further processing is
planned. The governors of all Ukrainian regions and members of the
cabinet are attending the parliament session. -30-
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12. ROMANO'S ANALYSIS

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: from Lidia Wolanskyj
Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Published by The Action Ukraine Report
Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 30, 2004

RE: "PUTIN'S THORN" COMMENTARY:
by former Ambassador Sergio Romano
Corriere della Sera web site, Milan, Italy, in Italian 28 Nov 04

Based on Mr. Romano's bizarre arguments, in which the concept of
a Ukrainian nation and state is totally denigrated, perhaps Italy
should also be broken up and handed back to the various forces who
once controlled large parts of it as separate pieces, including the
Pope?

This analysis only confirms that too many diplomats are
completely unqualified for their jobs. They do not know history, they
do not know politics and, worst of all, they have no sense of respect
for other nations.

Lidia Wolanskyj, Kyiv, Ukraine, lidia@ln.ua
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13. "RESPONSE TO WESTERN SKEPTICS AND DECLARATION
OF LOVE AND SUPPORT"

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: From Irina Paliashvili
Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, November 28, 2004
Published by The Action Ukraine Report
Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 30, 2004

November 28, 2004
Response to Western Skeptics and Declaration of Love and Support

I started writing this piece as a response to skeptical, and, at times,
cynical comments appearing in the Western press about the current popular
uprising in Ukraine. These comments cast doubt upon the true motives of
the uprising and allege that either this all was engineered in the US, or is
merely an economic war among oligarchic clans, or is an excuse for young
people to have a free rock concert, or that Mr. Yushchenko cannot be any
different than the undemocratic and corrupt Mr. Kuchma, or all of the above.

What I started as a response, however, at the end turned into my declaration
of love and support of Ukraine and its People.

Dear Sirs,

I trust that your opinions were expressed sincerely and in free will. If
this is the case, you should be open to an informed debate about what is
really going on in Ukraine. I am not sure how much you know about
Ukraine and its old and recent history, as well as the political situation
there, but this information is the key for understanding the current events.
To this end, let me please offer you some key facts that I hope will prompt
you to reconsider your opinions, or at least seek more information.

Anticipating your question, I would like to assure you that I am qualified
to do this - being a citizen of Ukraine, a lawyer with top academic degrees
from Ukraine and the US, a business owner in Kiev, splitting my professional
life among Ukraine, Europe, Russia and the US, and not being active in
politics. Moreover, I am not a Ukrainian by blood or by birth (being half
Georgian, half Russian, born in Moscow and raised in Georgia), but lived in
Ukraine for the last twenty years. This combination of biographical facts
and a lot of thinking and learning about Ukraine, its culture, People and
history, I believe, makes me into an unbiased insider with both an objective
eye and a broader outside prospective.

In the grand scheme of things and from the point of view of historical
logic, what is going on in Ukraine is not about individuals or about outside
influences - it is much much bigger than that - this is the start of an
objective democratization process, which your countries began a long time
ago, but which is just beginning in Ukraine today. Now is a logical and
crucial milestone in Ukraine's centuries-long struggle to become an
independent, free and democratic country and to join the civilized world.

The values, freedoms and rights that you, in your democratic societies,
have been enjoying and taking for granted, were also earned the hard
way by your predecessors at some point in history. Well, this is the
point that Ukraine is at today. Our generation is burdened with, and,
at the same, time privileged to make a historic choice not only for our
future, but also for the future of generations to come.

I agree with and understand your criticism of the democratic process in the
US (or in any other democratic country, for this matter), but to paraphrase
Mr. Churchill, democracy is not perfect, but this is the best system the
world has today. And, if a nation of 50 million people, through centuries
of struggle, wars, genocide by famine, bloody suppression of several
previous attempts to break free, has matured enough to establish this system
in its own country, against a new blunt and illegal attempt to deny it its
historic opportunity, why would you refuse to support them and to welcome
them into the world of democracy?

This democracy, as long as it is achieved, could take any of several
different forms. For the Western proponents of Parliamentary system, I
should note that there may be a great chance that this form will be
ultimately adopted for the democracy in Ukraine, but please let it win
first!

Some Western commentators are also arguing that what is happening now
in Ukraine is not about democracy at all, but about a war among oligarchic
clans. I should note that the Ukrainian People are knowledgeable enough
about world history and political process to understand that the democratic
changes and revolutions in your own countries were not only about pure
ideas, but also about influence, money and power. Fortunes were made and
lost. But the main goal of establishing democracy was nonetheless achieved.
So, why should Ukrainians be any different?

Of course, we understand that all kinds of interests are involved in the
current political process, but why should we be denied democracy now
over an unrealistic expectation of a pure political process? What these
commentators are essentially telling us from their vantage point at the top
of the democratic world is: "You, silly Ukrainian people, it is not about
you, it is about money, so go back to your caves and wait there quietly for
another few hundred years until it becomes possible to win democracy with
pure ideas". Well, thank you for sharing, but we'd rather stand up for our
well-deserved democracy now, when we believe we are ready and the
moment is right.

The current uprising is not by isolated groups, or politicians, or foreign
influences, or oligarchs, domestic or foreign (although all these elements
are objectively present - we should be realistic about today's globalized,
politicized and institutionalized world). It is an overwhelming and truly
popular movement of a majority of the nation with the broadest spectrum
of the population, most of which are not on any political side and do not
really care about any politicians individually. All they care about is that
they no longer want to succumb to cheating and abuse, and realize that they
can only count on a prosperous future, self-respect and freedom within a
democratic system.

All of Goliath's power was thrown against them - heavy censorship and
24-hour totally one-sided propaganda, blunt, aggressive and constant
outside interference on behalf of one candidate and demonizing the other
with floods of false information, widespread threats, illegal prosecution,
arrests, beatings, assassination attempts and assassinations, tax abuse of
pro-opposition businesses, hundreds of millions of dollars and lots of
carrots to the corrupt government, and, in the end, massive and open
election fraud in every imaginable shape and form. Would your nations
tolerate this?

So, Ukrainians finally stood up, and, as one popular artist declared, "My
home is on its side - I do not care about anything", is no longer the motto
of the majority of Ukrainians. They are all there, for days in the severe
winter cold, at the Maidan in Kiev, in the streets of the Ukrainian regions,
young and old, students and babushkas, entire families and co-workers, men
and women, socialists and free market-supporters, Ukrainian-, Russian- and
whatever else-speaking, intelligentsia, workers and farmers. Why so many
young people, you may ask? Not because the young people are impressionable,
but because they have the biggest stake in their future and they do not want
this future to be stolen from them. They want to get out of the dark
kingdom and join the civilized world.

Every Ukrainian I talk to has a strong sense of history being in the making
and every one of them understands, embraces and is proud of his or her
historical mission. A very distinct feature of this popular movement, that
deserves high respect, is that this movement is positive - it is not about
"against", not at all against Russia or Russians, not against this or that
person, no matter how he harmed and robbed his own people.

This is not a destructive movement - with hundreds of thousands of people
in the streets, have you heard about a single fight, a single broken tooth
or window? Moreover, when a handful of the ruling clan's supporters,
who traveled to Kiev, complained that they do not have enough food,
one of the opposition leaders, Julia Timoshenko, called on her supporters
to feed their opponents and to provide them with warm clothes - and
they happily did.

This is a positive movement, the People stood up "for", for their
centuries-long dream, for their future, for democracy, for freedom of
expression, press and choice, for their basic individual rights. Another
positive side of this movement is that it is realistic. No matter how upset
with Russia's interference, the People of Ukraine do not harbor anti-Russian
sentiments, they know they are brotherly nations and they are prepared to
leave all tensions behind and have a fresh start. Neither have they any
unrealistic expectations about the EU embracing them and offering closer
ties any time soon.

As with any popular movement, this movement has leaders and I understand
that you are skeptical about Mr. Yushchenko's true motives. I would like to
challenge this position with facts. I have lived and worked since
independence through various Prime Ministers, including the brief (less than
two years) leadership of Mr. Yushchenko a few years back. Let me please
share my impressions from that time. When Mr. Yushchenko became the PM,
Ukraine's economy was in the worst shape since independence.

We were behind most of the other CIS countries in all macroeconomic numbers
(I saved the Economist Russia and the CIS Report charts from that time).
Foreign investment had come to a halt (one top Western executive told me
that his mood about Ukraine fluctuated "between pessimism and extreme
depression"). Social tensions were growing geometrically. All that could be
stolen was being stolen and the country was sinking.

So, the ruling elite recognized that if the economy were not turned around,
they would not be able to make much more money and would face the real
threat of losing power. They had to do something about it, but none from
their ranks was sufficiently capable, or enjoyed public trust. So they
brought in an outsider - an intelligent, well-educated and competent
economist who, being the Governor of the National Bank, already had some
modest reformist record behind him and because of his relatively independent
position (the National Bank in Ukraine, like central banks of most
countries, is not subordinate to the executive branch of the Government)
could survive without joining the massive corruption and kleptomanic
campaign. Had he been a part of it, by the way, I could only imagine the
force with which the evidence would have been used against him today!
But this is so far from reality that it could not even be fabricated - Mr.
Yushchenko was accused of many sins, but corruption was not one of them.

Under those sad circumstances, Mr. Yushchenko took over managing the
country's economy, or what was left of it. As PM, he turned out to be a
reasonable, non-radical, intelligent and progressive, but careful reformer,
open to foreign investment (from Russia, in particular) and friendly to
neighbors (Russia, in particular). On the political and cultural side, he
never uttered a nationalistic word, but (sin of all sins!) he spoke
Ukrainian.

Within less than two years he and his team (Ms. Timoshenko being his
Vice PM and right hand) turned around the economy (we skyrocketed to the
top of those CIS macroeconomic charts), stopped the budget leaks, created
a favorable environment for small businesses and took them out of the black
economy (laying the groundwork for today's large class of legitimate small
business owners), pushed for real privatization with revenues actually being
deposited into the treasury, brought back foreign investors, paid a lot of
the social debts and raised self-confidence in society at large.

In this short period of time, he and his team managed to establish such a
healthy basis for the economy that despite the active moves of the
subsequent leadership to grab as much as they could and worsen the
conditions for enterprise development, the economy kept growing steadily
until now (our society will be paying for a long long time for the latest
irresponsible monetary policies of the current Government and the National
Bank's Chairman who, believe it or not, is the current PM's presidential
campaign manager, and who chose to partially finance the PM's presidential
campaign by switching on the money press).

Coming back to PM Yushchenko, his economic policy was a huge success -
except for the corrupt presidential-oligarchic clan. By their standards,
Mr. Yushchenko went way too far, confiscating "their" revenues and
channeling them back into the economy and becoming dangerously popular.
He had achieved what he was supposed to achieve and it was time for him
to go.

He also annoyed the ruling elite by refusing to go quietly and to disappear
from political life. He was removed abruptly and without any justification.
But he managed to lay the foundation for today's democratic process by
letting people make their living legally, by giving them a chance to own
something and to develop their businesses, by demonstrating that the
Government is not always against the People, by giving hope.

People realized that the Government, no matter how imperfect, can make a
positive difference. They saw a decent leader who was respectable and was
respected at home and abroad. They believed that their nation can actually
build a viable economy, State, and culture, without offending anybody or
taking away anybody's rights.

This brings me to the last, artificially created problem of the
"Russian-speaking population in Ukraine". Actually, I am a representative
of this population, as pure as they come. I came to Ukraine many years ago
to study at the University, not speaking a word of Ukrainian or knowing much
about its history and culture. Although over the years I made an effort and
learned Ukrainian (a very small effort, really, considering that Russian and
Ukrainian are quite close), I continue to speak mostly Russian, and continue
to enjoy unrestricted access to my beloved Russian culture. It is true that
Ukraine has largely switched to the Ukrainian language as the official one,
but being a direct witness of this process, I give you my word that it could
not have been carried out any more smoothly. The entire process of
assimilation in independent Ukraine has been mild, tolerant and smooth.

Immediately after the USSR dissolved, I was automatically granted Ukrainian
citizenship, just as was everybody else who happened to live at that time in
Ukraine, no matter where they came from. No exclusions, no Ukrainian
language exams, not even an oath to the new State. Being a part of the
Russian-speaking population in Ukraine never made me feel inferior, or
created a slightest obstacle for me in my professional or private life.
Ukrainian society does not force you to assimilate, but it responds warmly
when you make an effort, no matter how small.

And what sacrifice are we talking about - making a small effort while living
in this country, accepting its generous offer of citizenship and not being
under pressure? Only the most negative and paranoid minds could turn this
into a big deal and declare this mild "Ukrainization" (in Ukraine, mind
you) a dirty word. A simple and logical question comes to mind - if you do
not like this culture and this language, why are you there? I know why I am
there, and all my Russian-, Georgian- and other languages- speaking friends
know why they are there: because we are happy to be there.

We are grateful to our adoptive country for accepting us as we are, for
being treated so well and for not being discriminated against. And, in
response, by our free will, we fell deeply in love with Ukraine, with its
beautiful language and rich culture. This is just it - there is absolutely
no need to provoke, manipulate or "protect" us. We are fine and happy with
who we are and where we are, and at this historic moment it is time for us
to pay back, to stand with the Ukrainian People for their dream and to
participate in making this dream come true.

I hope, dear Sirs, that this sincere testimony will help you to draw a much
more positive picture of the current situation in Ukraine and to sympathize
with its People.

With very best regards, Irina Paliashvili -30-
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