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VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO RETURNS TO UKRAINE

He has emphasized, "I am a healthy man and everything I've got belongs to
the free and democratic Ukraine. I am not alone! There are millions of us
ready to sacrifice everything for the sake of democratic Ukraine."

The candidate for the Presidency of Ukraine has started his speech with his
thanks to those people who had come to his meeting. "This is a courageous
act proving that the government won't intimidate the people. God with us!"

The people's candidate has stressed that he is now on the stage "thanks to
my voters, my family and my team."

In his speech Victor Yushchenko has emphasized that today's Ukraine
deserves better life. "We have the lowest wages and pensions, and our
country is one of the poorest in Europe. The worst thing is that we have
a gangster regime. [article two]

"THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT" Year 04, Number 188
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 11, 2004

-----INDEX OF ARTICLES-----
"Major International News Headlines and Articles"

1. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO
RETURNS HOME FROM AUSTRIAN HOSPITAL
By Anna Melnichuk, AP Worldstream, Kyiv, Ukraine, Sun, Oct 10, 2004

2. YUSHCHENKO HOLDS LARGE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN RALLY
IN LVIV ON HIS WAY BACK FROM AUSTRIA TO KYIV
Press Service of Viktor Yushchenko
"My Ukraine Website," Kyiv, Ukraine, Sun, October 10, 2004

3. VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO SAYS PRESIDENT KUCHMA'S WORST
FAILURE IS THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION IN UKRAINE
Corruption is everywhere, from the village to the halls of power in Kyiv
Second failure of Kuchma is suppression of free speech
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Sun, October 10, 2004

4. AUSTRIAN RUDOLFINERHAUS CLINIC'S PRESIDENT ZIMPFER
FORECASTS FINAL DIAGNOSIS OF VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO'S
ILLNESS BEFORE NOVEMBER
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Mon, October 11, 2004

5. CHANNEL 5 TV NEWS REPORT ON VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO'S
RETURN FROM AUSTRIA TO LVIV AND THEN TO KYIV
Pinchuk's TV stations step up attacks on possibility of Yushchenko poisoning
Source: TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 11 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Mon, October 11, 2004

6. VIKTOR PINCHUK'S TV STATION SAYS VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO
"POISONING" A "BIG LIE"
Major fight between two key doctors at the Austrian clinic taken pubic
Interview with Prof Lothar Wicke, Director of Vienna's Rudolfinerhaus Clinic
By Dmitriy Kiselev, ICTV television, Kiev, in Russian, 10 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Sun, Oct 10, 2004

7. UKRAINIAN TV SAYS HOSPITAL REPRESENTATIVES DISAGREE
OVER VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO'S ILLNESS
Source: TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 10 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Sunday, Oct 10, 2004

8. AUSTRIAN POLICE SEIZE MEDICAL TESTS OF UKRAINE'S
CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO
Source: UT1 State TV, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 8 Oct 04
Provider: BBC Monitoring, UK, in English, Fri, Oct 8, 2004

9. UKRAINIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL DISCUSSES WITH THE
LEADERSHIP OF THE AUSTRIAN JUSTICE MINISTRY AND INTERNAL
AFFAIRS THE PROVIDING OF MATERIALS ON YUSHCHENKO
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wed, October 6, 2004

10. JAPAN TO PROVIDE USD 171.7 MILLION LOAN TO UKRAINE
FOR DEVELOPMENT OF BORISPOL AIRPORT NEAR KYIV
IntelliNews, Ukraine Today, Kyiv, Ukraine, Mon, October 11, 2004

11. REDS FROM THE TSAR'S WINE CELLARS IN CRIMEA TO GO
UNDER THE HAMMER AT SOTHEBY'S IN LONDON
The Massandra winery in Crimea was built in the 19th century
By Will Bennett, Art Sales Correspondent
Telegraph, London, UK, Saturday, October 9, 2004

12. "DAUGHTERS OF THE UKRAINE"
Ukrainian Orphans Adopted - Adoption Unravels Red Tape
WOWT-TV, Channel Six News, Omaha, Nebraska, Tue, Oct 5, 2004

13. USAID TO PROVIDE LOANS TO UKRAINIAN LOCAL UTILITIES
FOR CAPITAL FINANCING PROJECTS THROUGH NEDRA BANK
Local government enterprises providing water, sewage or heat supply services
Ukrainian News Service, Kyiv, Ukraine, Mon, October 11, 2004
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1. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO
RETURNS HOME FROM AUSTRIAN HOSPITAL

By Anna Melnichuk, AP Worldstream, Kyiv, Ukraine, Sun, Oct 10, 2004

KYIV - Cheering crowds greeted Viktor Yushchenko, an opposition leader
and top presidential candidate, as he returned to Ukraine Sunday after being
treated in an Austrian hospital for a mysterious illness that his allies
have attributed to poisoning.

Yushchenko's face looked puffy and he avoided detailed comments on his
health. "I'm alive and healthy," Yushchenko told a crowd of reporters at
Kiev's airport. "I will continue to undergo treatment, and I will say my
word."

Doctors in Vienna, Austria, were still studying Yushchenko's illness, and
said on Friday that they had asked for foreign expert help in determining
whether he had been poisoned.

Yushchenko's campaign chief alleges he was made ill by the type of toxins
found in biological weapons, though investigators say they had no firm
evidence of this.

Yushchenko's Austrian physician, Michael Zimpfer, accompanied him
Sunday on the trip back to Ukraine and told reporters at Kiev's airport
that the cause of Yushchenko's illness remained unclear.

"The version of poisoning has neither been confirmed, nor ruled out,"
Zimpfer said. "As of today, we have no evidence of poisoning," he said,
adding that it would take a panel of experts at least three weeks to
determine whether Yushchenko had been poisoned.

Before arriving in Kiev, Yushchenko on Sunday made a brief stopover in the
city of Lviv in western Ukraine, where he was greeted by more than 10,000
supporters. They waved Yushchenko's orange campaign flags and shouted
"Yushchenko!" as the opposition leader stood, looking pale but confident, in
front of the Opera Theater in Lviv, some 550 kilometers (340 miles) west of
the capital, Kiev.

"I am a healthy man, and everything that belongs to me, belongs to free
Ukraine," Yushchenko told supporters. One of those in the crowd, 50-year-old
Ihor Babliak, said Yushchenko was the only worthy candidate. "I don't want
my country to be ruled by bandits. I will vote for Yushchenko," she said.

Zimpfer said Sunday that Yushchenko was recovering and said his return to
Ukraine and Sunday's campaigning "gives us hope for a steady recovery."

Yushchenko, a Western-leaning reformer who heads the opposition Our Ukraine
bloc, fell ill last month and was rushed to Vienna's private Rudolfinerhaus
hospital on Sept. 10. He resumed campaigning in mid-September, but returned
to the Austrian hospital late last month for more treatment. Yushchenko and
his campaign rival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, are running neck-and-
neck ahead of the Oct. 31 election. The campaign has been marred by scandal.

Opposition and human rights watchdogs have accused Yanukovych, who is
backed by outgoing President Leonid Kuchma, and his allies of bare-knuckle
policies and abuse of power to advance his electoral goals, including
cracking down on independent press and blocking opposition access to the
media. -30- (Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service)
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2. YUSHCHENKO HOLDS LARGE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN RALLY
IN LVIV ON HIS WAY BACK FROM AUSTRIA TO KYIV

Press Service of Viktor Yushchenko
"My Ukraine Website," Kyiv, Ukraine, Sun, October 10, 2004

KIEV - Today Victor Yushchenko has made a speech before the locals of
Lviv in the square in front of the Opera house. Nearly 100 thousand people
have come to the presidential contender's rally.

During the rally Yushchenko has declared that October 31 is sure to be "our
common holiday." "If I had any doubts about it I wouldn't speak to you now.
October 31 will be the holiday of honest Ukrainians!" Victor Yushchenko has
assured.

The people's candidate has stressed that he is now on the stage "thanks to
my voters, my family and my team."

In his speech Victor Yushchenko has emphasized that today's Ukraine deserves
better life. "We have the lowest wages and pensions, and our country is one
of the poorest in Europe. The worst thing is that we have a gangster regime.

This regime wants to preserve its management succession. However, the lowest
wages and pensions shouldn't be preserved. The country without a law, where
the prosecutors and judges can be «privatized» is an unworthy heritage. And
today 47 million honest people don't want such succession!"

Yushchenko has said, "The government is trying to divide artificially our
country into the East and the West repeating that we pray in different
churches, hence we should vote differently. And I contend that church is
contributing to our consolidation. The government says we speak different
languages, and I contend that the more languages a person knows the more
possibilities one has to unite."

"Today we choose between the two morals and world outlooks rather than
the two languages," the people's candidate stressed. "It is not comfortable
in prison! Thus, I am convinced that 47 million honest Ukrainians, but not
'the prisoners' will decide the fate of the country."

"If 47 million Ukrainians are questioned about the future of Ukraine, we
will answer - we want our Ukraine to be a democratic state. And we will
sacrifice everything to achieve this. They won't intimidate us by 'KamAZes',
poisons or weapons!" Yushchenko said.

Next to the stage, where the rally was held, Heorhiy Gongadze's mother has
met with Yushchenko. Remembering her son, Victor Yushchenko has pointed
out, "Ukraine gives birth to millions of Hiya Gongadzes, Vadym Hetmans and
Vyacheslav Chornovols - people who are ready to fight for the free and
democratic Ukraine, since they have ardent hearts."

He has called upon the rally participants not to trust the government
telling about allegedly printed voting papers and reports 'in required
quantities' that define the choice of this country. "Don't believe that the
choice has been made without you, since it depends on you solely."

"Today your votes are priceless. They try to buy them for a kilo of buck-
wheat, for sugar or for a pension rise for a month. This is a snare. I am
begging you - don't be enticed, but make your choice with your heart and
mind, and after 31 October you will see the government to be respected
rather than feared. The honest and professional government that will care
for Ukraine," Yushchenko has declared.

He has underscored that every day the government is striving to sow discord
and split Ukraine through its media spreading old wive's tales. "Only
monsters can act in this way. Democracy is being established by millions of
hands, and 47 million is much more than a gang."

Commenting on his health, Yushchenko has said though he doesn't look well
but "everything will be all right soon." Yushchenko has no problems with his
articulation any longer and his voice is strong.

The doctors accompanying Victor Yushchenko assess his health condition as
normal. They think that Yushchenko needs some time, perhaps a month, to
recover completely. http://www.yuschenko.com.ua/eng/present/News/1261/
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3. VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO SAYS PRESIDENT KUCHMA'S WORST
FAILURE IS THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION IN UKRAINE
Corruption is everywhere, from the village to the halls of power in Kyiv
Second failure of Kuchma is suppression of free speech

Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Sun, October 10, 2004

KIEV - Presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko has said that the worst
failure of President Leonid Kuchma during his 10 years of presidency was
the fight against corruption. He said this in the interview with the
Dzerkalo Tyzhnia newspaper.

As he put it, the resolute course pronounced in 1994 against corruption and
organized crime was a lost battle. "During his rule corruption metastases
have penetrated through the entire vertical system of power, from the
capital to a little town and village, in all branches of power: legislative,
executive and judicial," the candidate said.

The second bad failure of Kuchma, according to Yuschenko, is suppression
of free speech, introduction of stringent mechanisms for censorship and
deceit of his countrymen.

The third mischief of the outgoing president is common impoverishing,
miserable wages and pensions with multi-million fortunes of oligarchs on
the background.

Speaking about achievements of Kuchma, Yuschenko mentioned economic
decrees that he issued when the Constitution was adopted and its interim
provisions were in effect.

In the situation when the Verkhovna Rada still had to form the legal frame-
work for reforms and economic development, these decrees played an
important role in the process of reforming ownership relations and during
the transition of Ukraine into a country with market economy status,
Yuschenko opined.

He further noted that Kuchma made a great effort to conclude and ratify the
agreement on friendship and cooperation with Russia, which laid the bases
for bilateral relations, and also Kuchma facilitated good ties with Poland.
His third success was the refusal to run for the third term, Yuschenko said.
As a whole, he estimated Kuchma's presidency as the years of disappointment
and frustrated hopes.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Constitutional Court ruled in late
December 2003 that Kuchma has the right to contest the next presidential
election. Kuchma has been elected the president twice: in 1994 and 1999.

The Ukrainian Constitution, which was adopted in 1996 during Kuchma's
first presidential term, forbids one person to hold the post of president
for more than two consecutive terms. On July 3, Ukraine launched the
election campaign that must end the day before the voting day of
October 31. -30- (The Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service)
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4. AUSTRIAN RUDOLFINERHAUS CLINIC'S PRESIDENT ZIMPFER
FORECASTS FINAL DIAGNOSIS OF VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO'S
ILLNESS BEFORE NOVEMBER

Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Mon, October 11, 2004

KYIV - The president of Austria's Rudolfinerhaus clinic, Michael Zimpfer,
has forecast that the final diagnosis of the illness of the Our Ukraine
coalition's leader and presidential candidate will be made in 2-3 weeks,
i.e. before November.

He announced this to journalists at the Boryspil airport upon arrival from
Lviv with Yuschenko."I think that [the final conclusions] could take three
weeks," he said. Yuschenko himself told journalists in an interview that he
has several days of intensive treatment ahead of him.

Zimpfer said that his reason for visiting Ukraine was to hand over Yuschenko
to Ukrainian doctors. The president of the Rudolfinerhaus clinic declined to
forecast when Yuschenko will make final recovery from the illness.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Lotar Vike, the director and head
doctor of the Rudolfinerhaus clinic, has confirmed on the ICTV television
station that the clinic's press release of September 28 according to which
the allegations that Yuschenko was poisoned are absolutely unfounded from
the medical point of view was valid.

Meanwhile, Deputy Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Zinchenko, who is also
Yuschenko's presidential election campaign manager, has alleged that a
biological weapon might have been used against Yuschenko. He cited a
letter sent by the president of the Rudolfinerhaus clinic, Michael Zimpfer,
to Yuschenko. -30- (Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service)
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5. CHANNEL 5 TV NEWS REPORT ON VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO'S
RETURN FROM AUSTRIA TO LVIV AND THEN TO KYIV
Pinchuk's TV stations step up attacks on possibility of Yushchenko
poisoning

Source: TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 11 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Mon, October 11, 2004

KIEV - The head of the Vienna hospital where opposition presidential
candidate Viktor Yushchenko received treatment for a mystery illness has
said that the results of tests to establish whether Yushchenko was
deliberately poisoned would be available in three weeks' time.

Rudolfinerhaus president Michael Zimpfer was speaking after arriving at
Kiev's Boryspil airport with Yushchenko on the evening of 10 October.
The first round of the presidential election will be held on 31 October.
The following is the text of a report by Ukrainian television TV 5
Kanal on 11 October:

[Presenter] Presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko returned to Ukraine
from Austria yesterday after undergoing treatment at the Rudolfinerhaus
clinic in Vienna. Yushchenko will resume his campaign tours of the country
shortly. At the same time he will undergo therapy, but this will now be
provided by Ukrainian specialists with advice from Austrian doctors.

Yushchenko flew first to Lviv, where about 100,000 people gathered for
a rally in front of the opera house. This is what he said.

[Yushchenko] I applaud everyone who has today begun to get up off their
knees even by a centimetre, or two or three. These are our people. I'm sure
that 47m people will always be more than a few thousand bandits. And to
conclude, I would like to say - remember this - that the jailbirds will
never decide the fate of this country. The fate of this country will be
decided by you, honest people.

[Presenter] Yushchenko said a few words to the media who met him at
Boryspil yesterday.

[Yushchenko] I would like to say that I am alive and healthy. I have arrived
in Ukraine. I will have a few more days of intensive therapy. Now you are
invited to attend a news conference, where there will be answers to the
questions that interest you. I will say something later. Would you be
satisfied if we leave it at that?

[Voice] Thank you. [Yushchenko] [Laughs] All the best.

[Presenter] Those with questions for Yushchenko addressed them to those
who accompanied him - MPs [Oleksandr] Zinchenko, [Yevhen] Chervonenko
and [Petro] Poroshenko and Rudolfinerhaus president Professor Zimpfer.
Zimpfer said that he was visiting Ukraine because he wanted to hand
Yushchenko's treatment over to competent Ukrainian doctors. He said that
the results of the tests that will confirm or refute allegations that
Yushchenko was poisoned would be ready in three weeks.

Meanwhile, the possibility of poisoning is being denied with demonstrative
regularity by pro-government channels, and in particular ICTV, which belongs
to President Leonid Kuchma's son-in-law, the husband of the president's
daughter, Mr [Viktor] Pinchuk.

Yesterday, the channel broadcast an interview with Rudolfinerhaus director
Mr [Lothar] Wicke [see ICTV television, Kiev, in Russian 1500 gmt 10
Oct 04]. In the interview, Wicke for the second time - after a press release
issued by him 10 days ago - ruled out the possibility that Yushchenko's
illness was caused by deliberate poisoning.

The clinic's president, Zimpfer, told journalists that he later personally
retracted this press release, since Mr Wicke had issued it prematurely,
because at that time forensic-medical tests were still being carried out. Mr
Wicke was wrong to agree to repeat for a second time his supposition to
the Russian journalist [and ICTV presenter] Dmitriy Kiselev.

[Zimpfer, in English overlaid with Ukrainian translation] Professor Wicke
is the medical director of the hospital. He has to agree everything first of
all with the patient and then with the doctors who decide what the
treatments should be. In this case, the doctors are Mr [Mykola] Korpan
and I.

[Presenter] Rudolfinerhaus president, Mr Zimpfer, also answered questions
about Dr Korpan. ICTV expressed some doubts about the competence and
objectivity of this professor, who was treating Yushchenko.

[Zimpfer] There have not yet been any statements from Dr Korpan about
which I have had any doubts. If you have any, then I would ask you to let me
have them.

[Yushchenko had to suspend his election campaign after falling ill in early
September. He returned to Ukraine after a course of treatment in Vienna on
18 September, and said his illness was the result of a failed assassination
attempt by the government - a charge strenuously denied by Ukrainian
officials. Yushchenko had to fly back to Vienna for further treatment in
early October after his condition deteriorated.] -30-
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6. VIKTOR PINCHUK'S TV STATION SAYS VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO
"POISONING" A "BIG LIE"
Major fight between two key doctors at the Austrian clinic taken pubic

Interview with Prof Lothar Wicke, Director of Vienna's Rudolfinerhaus Clinic
By Dmitriy Kiselev, ICTV television, Kiev, in Russian, 10 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Sun, Oct 10, 2004

KYIV - A Ukrainian pro-government TV channel has aired an interview with
the head of the Austrian clinic that treated opposition leader Viktor
Yushchenko for alleged poisoning. The channel said the interview had proved
that Yushchenko's allegation that the government had tried to poison him was
"a big lie".

Speaking in German through an interpreter, Prof Lothar Wicke, the director
of Vienna's Rudolfinerhaus clinic, did not directly answer the question of
whether Yushchenko was really poisoned, but said that in Yushchenko's
case the hospital did not have to notify the police, as required by law in
all suspected poisoning cases.

He questioned the credentials of Yushchenko's doctor Mykola Korpan, who
earlier appeared to indicate that there was a legitimate suspicion that
Yushchenko was poisoned. Wicke was also translated into Russian as saying
that Yushchenko's allies behaved "aggressively" during a meeting with him.

The following is an excerpt from Wicke's interview with presenter Dmitriy
Kiselev on the ICTV channel, owned by President Leonid Kuchma's son-in-
law Viktor Pinchuk, aired on 10 October; subheadings inserted editorially:

[Kiselev] Dr Wicke, we are talking now in the presence of your lawyer. We
have decided that it would be right for your lawyer to be present, as you
asked, in order to protect you from any kind of unexpected things in the
future. We expect that you will tell only the truth, because in my opinion
it is the only way for the clinic to somehow preserve its reputation. Mr
Yushchenko has been observed for several weeks [at the clinic], and he
came here for his second visit. Has poison been found in his body?

[Wicke, speaking in German through a Russian interpreter, apparently in his
office in Austria, translated from Russian throughout] First of all I'd like
to thank you for your interest and for your desire to clarify this
situation. I am a free man, I have an excellent reputation, and I think that
truth is not a toy. We need facts, without any interpretation. So I would
like to ask you to take the same stance on these facts, and not to interpret
them in this or another way. The task of Rudolfinerhaus is to treat people,
not to get involved in politics.
NONCOMMITTAL ON POISONING
[Kiselev] Well in that case I will build my questions based on facts. I will
ask you about facts. So has poison been found?
[Wicke] I am the director of Rudolfinerhaus hospital, and I would like to
refer you to the press conference given on 29 September, in the afternoon,
in our hospital. A press release was issued saying that toxic substances of
endogenous [as heard, probably exogenous] origin had not been found at that
time.
[Kiselev] But that press release is now being described as false by the
Yushchenko team. Poroshenko [Petro, MP and Yushchenko's ally] called me
and told be that the press release was false because it was not signed by
any of the clinic's doctors, and not authorized. After that there was the
second
press release [which refuted the first one]. So what is this mystery with
press releases, the first one and the second one?
[Wicke] There is one press release of 28 September 2004. At the bottom of
that press release, there was my name printed, and the name of the president
of the company, but there were no hand signature. I agree with the text [of

the press release], but there was no time then so I could not sign the
document, but we agreed it over the phone.
[Kiselev] So it was a genuine press release and it reflects your position?
[Wicke] Yes, I can sign it in front of the camera if you like. [Fumbling in
papers.] There is the second press release, which was issued last Sunday, 3
October. But that press release, I don't agree with it, I just acknowledged
that I read it.
[Kiselev] So there is your signature on it, as a sign that you acknowledged
having read it?
[Wicke] Yes, I added in handwriting, "acknowledge" [Russian: prinyal k
svedeniyu], but I did not write that I agreed with it. It is not written
that I agree.
[Kiselev] So you do not agree with it?
[Wicke] No I don't, because there is a paragraph, and I quote, "the press
release of 28 September 2004, which ruled out poisoning, does not
correspond to reality and is hereby refuted".
"AGGRESSIVE"
[Kiselev] What is the history of your relations with the patient? Was there
any political pressure on you?
[Wicke] You mean me?
[Kiselev] You and the clinic.
[Wicke] The press release of 28 September apparently made a lot of noise in
Ukraine. The next day, on 29 September, in the morning, a group of people
came to me, including Professor Korpan, one Mr Chervonenko [Yevhen, MP
and Yushchenko's close ally], and another man who introduced himself as a
senator, he did not give me his card. There were two more Ukrainians who
apparently live in Austria. They told me aggressively, cancel the press
conference immediately, or there will be consequences for the hospital and
for me personally. [Wicke is heard saying in German, "haben mich verbal
relativ heftig aufgefordert", "they verbally demanded in a relatively strong
way"],
[Kiselev] What sort of consequences? What did they say?
[Wicke] Legal consequences, mainly. The conversation was quite long, our
president also took part. The visitors calmed down a little and said they
were not going to disrupt the press conference. They even invited Prof
Zimpfer to take part [in the press conference] together with journalists,
although they were not journalists.
[Kiselev] So how did the conversation end?
[Wicke] With a press conference.
[Kiselev] Did you not want to call the police, because you were being
pressured within the walls of Rudolfinerhaus?
[Wicke] In the first minutes of the conversation, when they talked so
aggressively to me, I said, if it is a threat, please leave immediately. We
are in Austria, it is a democratic and neutral country. [Wicke is heard
saying in German, "relativ massiv" rather than using the German word for
aggressive, "aggressiv".] If you want to threaten me, I will call the
police. After that they calmed down a little. Mr Chervonenko said they
wanted to talk to me, not attack me. In general the situation was a bit
strange for me. There were only their own interpreters. They did not notify
me about the visit. And I could not control what was being translated.
[Kiselev] So they entered your office unexpectedly, broke in, in fact?
[Wicke] There was no official interpreter from the embassy.
[Kiselev] Well this is a violation of the ethics. What are the rules here?
Is it normal here?
[Wicke] They entered without knocking first.
QUESTIONS KORPAN'S CREDENTIALS
[Kiselev] In the first press release it was announced that the management
of the clinic would give the press conference. But at the last moment, as I
understand - how did Dr Mykola Korpan get to be there?
[Wicke] Correct, the press release was issued by the clinic. By doing that
we wanted to improve our reputation as a top-level clinic, a professional
clinic. But you know of course that some information had been released
through unofficial channels or the hospital, from people who are not the
clinic's staff. So there was an impression that we were disclosing
information about patients, and that is against our law on medical practice.
[Kiselev] So how did it happen that Dr Korpan became the hospital's
spokesman and was giving interviews all the time, and everyone quoted him?
[Wicke] He was on the podium at the press conference - we agreed to his
request, and it happened because Prof Zimpfer approved it, because he
[Korpan] was [Yushchenko's] doctor, and he [Zimpfer] wanted him to be
present. In my view, he [Korpan] cannot represent the clinic in any way.
[Kiselev] Is he staff?
[Wicke] Dr Korpan is not staff of the clinic. He rents a room there to
receive his private patients.
[Kiselev] The Austrian press says that [Korpan's] title of university
professor is now being questioned. How did it happen that the clinic is
using the services of a dubious professor?
[Wicke] Two years ago I took the post [word indistinct] of the hospital's
head - they don't pay any extra for that, by the way - I am now the managing
director of the clinic. Various people had already worked at the clinic
then, I did not have any influence on [word indistinct, presumably the
decision to hire them]. A year ago I was told that Dr Korpan was a problem.
I got in touch back then with the chamber of doctors of Vienna, and over the
phone they told be they had checked everything, and everything was in order.
A week ago, maybe Monday or even Tuesday, the chamber of doctors told
me over the phone that he does not have the right to call himself a
university
professor. He has no right to practice and work as a surgeon in Austria. His
diploma is recognized here, but this title, university professor, it has not
been verified yet. It will take a long time, these things are not done
quickly.
[Kiselev] Dr Korpan is a surgeon, his field is oncology. He is a
surgeon-oncologist. And his chief specialty is cryosurgery. Why was it him
who became Mr Yushchenko's doctor? Did Yushchenko fit Korpan's profile?
[Wicke] I think Dr Korpan and Dr Yushchenko [as received] knew each other
personally. Or maybe he was invited to Ukraine at the acute stage of the
disease, because as I understand, he was known there as a doctor. As to the
press conference on 29 September 2004, Prof Zimpfer said that the primary
disease, when he was in Vienna, was pancreatitis, and the liver and stomach
were also affected. These are gastroenterological diseases.
[Kiselev] So why was a surgeon-oncologist dealing with this?
[Wicke] I can only say that in Austria our doctors are trained in all fields
medicine. When doctors are trained they are taught all areas of medicine,
and only after that they choose their field. So they have knowledge in all
fields, but specialists are then used, such as gastroenterologist, or
neurologist, and so on.
"POISONING REPORT NOT FILED"
[Kiselev] So what do you think, if there was no poisoning, who invented it?
[Wicke] This is speculation, and I cannot say anything about it.
Rudolfinerhaus hospital did not say anything officially about poisoning.
This is Dr Korpan's conclusion, and there was an interim conclusion signed
two days after that, a less definitive conclusion saying there is no proof
but it is possible.
[Kiselev] Do you have more information now than back then?
[Wicke] Well I must say that the Austrian law on medical practice rules that
such information is confidential. The interim conclusion and Dr Korpan's
letter have already been published, so I have a right to speak about them.
By that time no exogenous substance had been found. Now [Yushchenko] is
undergoing in-patient treatment, and we are not releasing any information
now.
[Kiselev] It is Mr Yushchenko's second time in the clinic. You have more
information now compared to his first visit. Have you found any poison in
his system, any suspicious viruses he might have been poisoned with?
[Wicke] I'd like to refer once again to Article 54 on medical secrets. I can
comment on the previous reports released without our cooperation. I can
comment on them, but I have no right to speak about current treatment. But
if toxic substances had been found, Yushchenko's doctors, Dr Korpan and
Prof Zimpfler would have been obliged to report it to me as the head of the
clinic, and I would then have to report it to the prosecutors. This did not
happen.
[Kiselev] So you did not call the prosecutors because there was no reason,
have I got that right? Or have you violated Part 4 Article 54, which says
that you should report to the police and the prosecutor?
[Wicke] I simply must call the prosecutors in such cases, but I did not call
them because none of the doctors reported to me anything about toxic
substances.
"CONNECTIONS TO ELECTIONS"
[Kiselev] But was it somehow connected to the elections? In conversations
with Mr Yushchenko, did he in any way link his diagnosis and his stay in
hospital with the election campaign?
[Wicke] I read this in the press. There was a conversation, Poroshenko took
part, he is the head of Viktor Yushchenko's election campaign [as received,
Poroshenko is not officially in charge of Yushchenko's campaign], and his
lawyer, (?Dr Heinz Dietmar Schimankow), another lawyer representing the
hospital and me. In this conversation we spoke about legal issues, regarding
the provision of information, because I had been contacted by a court with
an order to provide information. In this connection, Mr Poroshenko asked
that all the information regarding his presidential candidate be regarded as
secret until 21 November [date of the expected second round of the
presidential election in Ukraine], and he did not want it to be made public,
he did not allow that.
[Kiselev] So he did not want any information from the clinic to be leaked
before 21 November? Did they want some doubts to remain?
[Wicke] I don't know why it was done. Maybe they did not want the hospital
to make public any information about positive or negative results. I would
like to stress once again that it is not the task of Rudolfinerhaus to take
part in political struggle or support someone.
[Kiselev] But the clinic's reputation has been put into question all the
same, because it was quoted, and you had the press release of course, but
not everyone read it. Is there any way to save the clinic's reputation now?
[Passage omitted: Wicke praising the clinic]
[Wicke] Many prominent personalities receive treatment here. One of my
chief doctors is Iranian. He has many patients from Russia, who called him
in terror, saying, what happened, we can no longer use your services if the
hospital is involved in the Ukrainian election struggle. So the reputation
we were trying to improve - I wanted to open the Ukrainian and Russian
market in addition to Arab countries - of course it is a setback. If you can
tell in your country that it was an exception, and in future if they don't
hamper us we will keep working professionally and confidentially.
"FEAR FOR LIFE"
[Kiselev] Do you fear for your life now?
[Wicke] Yes and no. [Long pause] It is a new situation for me, finding
myself in such a tense political situation, when you don't know how certain
people will react. But I think that Austria will continue ensuring the
safety of its guests and its own citizens. I would like to add that despite
the problems that concern not only me personally but also many of the
clinic's staff and the clinic itself, I would like to wish Viktor Yushchenko
a recovery.
[Kiselev] Many thanks, Dr Wicke.
[Wicke] Thank you for the conversation. [End of the interview]
[Kiselev] If not for the restrictions imposed by the lawyer, Prof Wicke
would probably have said even more. But it is still clear that the Austrian
hospital came under an unprecedented and rude pressure from Viktor
Yushchenko's team. It is clear that after certain confusion, the hospital
found the strength to resist this pressure. It is clear that the political
version of Viktor Yushchenko's grave illness is a big lie, and the
mainstream Austrian press is already writing about it.
[Passage omitted: Kiselev says an Austrian paper has conducted an
investigation and reached similar conclusions.]
[Yushchenko, who leads opinion polls by a narrow margin ahead of the 31
October election, had to suspend his election campaign after falling ill in
early September. He returned to Ukraine after a course of treatment in
Vienna on 18 September, and said his illness was the result of a failed
assassination attempt by the government - a charge strenuously denied by
Ukrainian officials. Yushchenko had to fly back to Vienna for further
treatment in early October after his condition deteriorated. He returned to
Ukraine on 10 October, accompanied by the president of Rudolfinerhaus,
Michael Zimpfer.] -30- (Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service)
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FOOTNOTE: The public fight Professor Lothar Wicke of the Austrian
clinic is waging against the Clinic's president Michael Zimpfer and Viktor
Yushchenko's Ukrainian doctor, Michael Korpan, is really strange, rather
bizarre. The handling of the distribution of information around the
Yushchenko case by the Rudolfinerhaus Clinic has been totally out of
norm for top medical institutions, very unprofessional and really a major
embarrassment to the Rudolfinerhaus Clinic.

There are many strange stories out of Vienna as several top Ukrainian
government officials like Prosecutor-General Hennadii Vasyliev, the
Health minister and members of the security service have been in
Vienna holding meetings with Rudolfinerhaus staff, officials of the
Austrian government, etc. Staff from Viktor Pinchuk's TV station
and people from TV Channel 5 have also been seen in Vienna.
There have also been unconfirmed reports of money changing hands.
(EDITOR)
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7. UKRAINIAN TV SAYS HOSPITAL REPRESENTATIVES DISAGREE
OVER VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO'S ILLNESS

Source: TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 10 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Sunday, Oct 10, 2004

KYIV - The head of the Austrian clinic that treated Ukrainian opposition
presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko for what Yushchenko said was
deliberate poisoning appears to be in disagreement with the interpretation a
pro-government TV channel put on statements by the clinic's director,
opposition-leaning 5 Kanal TV has reported.

A correspondent reported that Rudolfinerhaus president Michael Zimpfer said
an alleged statement by Prof Lothar Wicke that Yushchenko could not have
been poisoned had not been agreed with other doctors. The following is the
text of a report by TV 5 Kanal on 10 October:

[Presenter] We began the programme with the news that presidential candidate
Viktor Yushchenko has returned to Ukraine from Vienna. He was accompanied
y Michael Zimpfer, the president of the Rudolfinerhaus hospital. Andriy
Shevchenko met them at Boryspil [airport], and he is now on the phone to the
studio. Andriy, what did Zimpfer say?

[Correspondent] Roman, the press conference has just ended. What he said
makes a major correction to the picture that formed after the interview with
Mr [Lothar] Wicke. Here is what Mr Zimpfer, the hospital president, said
about Wicke. He can speak in the name of the hospital, but he has to agree
the medical parts of all his statements with the practising doctors. The
thesis about the impossibility of Yushchenko having been poisoned, which
was heard in the interview, was not agreed with the doctors.

[Wicke did not directly say in the ICTV interview that it was impossible
that Yushchenko had been poisoned. However, ICTV presenter Dmitriy
Kiselev said that the interview showed that poisoning allegations were "a
big lie" - see ICTV television, Kiev, in Russian 1500 gmt 10 Oct 04.]

As for Dr Korpan, the doctor who is treating Yushchenko, Mr Zimpfer said
that he trusts Mr Korpan. Mr Korpan has a license to practise medicine. He
is not officially on the hospital's staff. He works in the system of home
surgeries at the hospital. Mr Zimpfer says that he has not heard any public
statements by Mr Korpan that would give rise to doubts as to his competence
or his honesty. [In the interview shown on ICTV on 10 October, Lothar
Wicke was seen to cast doubt on Korpan's credentials.] Roman?

[Presenter] Can we say that there is some disagreement between the doctors?
And who is in charge, Zimpfer or Wicke?

[Correspondent] Mr Zimpfer is the president of the hospital. He is the top
person in the clinic. It would be very interesting to see these two
individuals together, to have them face each other in order for them to
clear things up. But at the moment, what we have is that Mr Zimpfer, whose
press conference just ended, clearly has more authority to speak on behalf
of the clinic.

[Presenter] We are waiting for the video, which will be shown in our later
news bulletins. -30- (Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service)
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8. AUSTRIAN POLICE SEIZE MEDICAL TESTS OF UKRAINE'S
CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO

Source: UT1 State TV, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 8 Oct 04
Provider: BBC Monitoring, UK, in English, Fri, Oct 8, 2004

KIEV - Doctors from the Austrian Rudolfinerhaus clinic have confirmed that
the Austrian police seized the results of medical tests of Ukrainian
opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, who is being treated
in the clinic. The following is the text of the report by Ukrainian
state-owned television UT1 on 8 October:

Austrian doctors tried to shed light on the situation [at a news conference]
today. They said they could not explain Yushchenko's symptoms at all. Since
statements on biological weapons appeared - and doctors from the
[Rudolfinerhaus] clinic have never dealt with these matters before - they
decided to consult experts from other clinics.

Meanwhile, the Austrian law-enforcement agencies have seized the results of
Yushchenko's medical examinations and other related documents. The doctors
confirmed this. -30- (Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service)
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9. UKRAINIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL DISCUSSES WITH THE
LEADERSHIP OF THE AUSTRIAN JUSTICE MINISTRY AND INTERNAL
AFFAIRS THE PROVIDING OF MATERIALS ON YUSHCHENKO

Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wed, October 6, 2004

KYIV - Prosecutor General Hennadii Vasyliev has discussed with the
leadership of Austria's Federal Ministry of Justice and Federal Internal
Affairs Ministry the making available of the medical record from the private
clinic Rudolfinerhaus on the poisoning of Our Ukraine bloc's leader and
presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko to Ukrainian investigators.

The press service of the Prosecutor's General Office (PGO) disclosed this
to Ukrainian News. According to the information of the press service,
Vasyliev discussed issues linked to the official intercessions of the PGO
within the framework of the investigation into the criminal case of
Yuschenko's illness with the leadership of the Austrian government agencies.

According to Austrian law, the Federal Justice Ministry should transfer the
intercession for examination in a local court in order to afford Ukrainian
investigators the opportunity to get familiarize with medical and other
documents of the private clinic.

Vasyliev asked the Austrian side during the time of the meetings to execute
the intercession of the Ukrainian investigators within the maximally
shortest period of time.

In respond to this request, the heads of the Austrian federal ministries
assured the Ukrainian prosecutor general that they had transferred this
issue to the judiciary instances, and they will in future help the PGO in
the conduct of an objective and comprehensive investigation.

However, in their words, the necessary legal actions relating to this issue
might be very long. -30- (Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service)
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10. JAPAN TO PROVIDE USD 171.7 MILLION LOAN TO UKRAINE
FOR DEVELOPMENT OF BORISPOL AIRPORT NEAR KYIV

IntelliNews, Ukraine Today, Kyiv, Ukraine, Mon, October 11, 2004
.
KYIV - The Japan government has decided to provide a USD 171.1mn
loan to Ukraine through the Japan Bank for International Cooperation
(JBIC). The goal of the credit is to finance reconstruction of international
airport Borispol.

The credit will be provided for 30 years. The interest rate makes up 1.5%.
The repayment of the loan will only start after a 10-year grace period.
Worth noting, Ukraine asked Japan to open a credit line in 1998. The
decision was postponed due to the restructuring of state debt to Japan.
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11. REDS FROM THE TSAR'S WINE CELLARS IN CRIMEA TO GO
UNDER THE HAMMER AT SOTHEBY'S IN LONDON
The Massandra winery in Crimea was built in the 19th century

By Will Bennett, Art Sales Correspondent
Telegraph, London, UK, Saturday, October 9, 2004

Every year as the bitter Russian winter receded the Tsars took the
imperial family to their summer palace in the Crimea where they
relaxed away from the pressures of power and entertained guests on
the shores of the Black Sea.

At Livadia, their palace near Yalta, they held extravagant parties,
celebrated communion in the imperial chapel and sometimes dined as
a family, surrounded only by their personal servants. Wine was an
integral part of their daily lives.

The Massandra winery in the Crimea was built in the 19th century to
supply the needs of the Tsars' court and became legendary in Russia
for its strong, sweet wines with a distinctive full flavour, utterly
different from those produced in Western Europe and the New World.

Now some of the wines produced for the Tsars, many in bottles
bearing the imperial seal and all of which survived both the
Communist revolution and Nazi invasion, are to be auctioned at
Sotheby's in London on Dec 3 when they are expected to fetch more
than £500,000.

They will include five bottles of the rich, sweet Seventh Heaven,
produced in 1880 by the Tsar's winemaker, Prince Lev Sergervich
Golitzin, which should sell for £1,200 to £1,600 each.

Four bottles of 1893 Ai Danil red port with the Tsar's seal are
expected to sell for £2,800 to £3,800 each, half a dozen bottles of
Massandra-produced Madeira dating from 1913 are estimated at
£4,000 to £6,000 apiece, while a single bottle of 1905 Hungarian-style
wine could fetch £3,600.

Massandra, now owned by the government of Ukraine since the latter's
split from Russia following the break-up of the Soviet Union, has decided
to sell the wine, partly to raise the international profile of its products,
which are not widely known in the West and also to get money to buy
new machinery for the winery.

"Massandra is almost like a national treasure and they have got
stocks of wine going right back into the 19th century but most of
what they produce is drunk locally and I think they want to make
people elsewhere aware of what they do," said Stephen Mould, senior
director of Sotheby's wine department in London.

The Crimea was plunged into civil war after the 1917 Revolution as
White Russians, aided by foreign forces, tried to turn back the
Communists and the latter did not seize control of Massandra until
three years later.

To protect the Tsar's wine from looters it was bricked up in tunnels
built in the 1890s by an army of labourers who burrowed deep into a
hillside to create some of the world's finest and coolest wine
cellars.

The Red Army might have destroyed the collection as an example of
imperial high living when they eventually found it but they quickly
realised its importance and ensured that it was preserved intact.

When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 the entire
collection was packed up and taken to three secret locations. Only
that year's vintage, which was still in vats, could not be saved and
Massandra's director ordered that it be poured away. For perhaps the
only time in its history the Black Sea turned red. -30-
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12. "DAUGHTERS OF THE UKRAINE"
Ukrainian Orphans Adopted - Adoption Unravels Red Tape

WOWT-TV, Channel Six News, Omaha, Nebraska, Tue, Oct 5, 2004

BENNINGTON, Nebraska - A Bennington family has grown by two
daughters. The children were orphans rescued from an uncertain future.
The girls were born in the Ukraine and the adoption wasn't easy.

Thirteen-year-old Leana and her nine-year-old sister Julia sit in the
kitchen of the Hanson's Nebraska home considering what it took to
get them here.

Cathy Hanson tells us, "Their records were really in a mess." Larry
and Cathy Hanson spent five weeks in the Ukraine cutting red tape
that was twisted around the girls' adoption.

The sisters' natural parents are dead and Julia's birth certificate had
been forged. The Ukrainian government wouldn't release them. The
Hansons had to hire a middleman.

Larry says, "He told us how much it would cost to get the entire thing
done and it was a lot of money, a couple of thousand dollars. We never
met him before and he was a shady character to begin with."

Their money and faith paid off. After living in separate orphanages the
sisters now live under the same roof in separate bedrooms.

Cathy Hanson says, "It's wonderful for them to be here. We feel so
blessed to have them and it would have been a difficult life for
them had they stayed."

Growing up alone in the Ukraine the girls are now in a family of
eight with privileges they had only dreamed about. Leana and Julia
will soon be starting an English as a second language class and they're
adapting to the American way of life.

The Hansons say they've learned that there are some 48,000 orphans
in the Ukraine and many of them must move out on their own by the
time they're 17-years-old. In the city of Odessa some 5,000 children
live on the streets and a third of them are under the age of 10. -30-
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13. USAID TO PROVIDE LOANS TO UKRAINIAN LOCAL UTILITIES
FOR CAPITAL FINANCING PROJECTS THROUGH NEDRA BANK
Local government enterprises providing water, sewage or heat supply services

Ukrainian News Service, Kyiv, Ukraine, Mon, October 11, 2004

KYIV - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
has decided to provide loans to Ukrainian utilities through the Nadra bank.
The bank announced this in a statement.

"The Nadra bank concluded a guaranty agreement with the United States
Agency for International Development on September 24, 2004," the state-
ment said. According to the statement, loans will be provided to utilities
for financing capital investment projects. The maximum size of the loan
portfolio under this guaranty is USD 1.5 million in the hryvnia equivalent.

The Nadra bank will provide loans under this guaranty agreement to
Ukrainian enterprises providing water, sewage, or heat supply services.
Specifically, it will provide loans to utilities controlled by the local
governments, which set tariffs for their services. The maximum amount
of loan per borrower will be USD 200,000.

This is the second guaranty agreement between the Nadra bank and
USAID. The first was signed in 2002 for provision of loans to farmers
and their suppliers.

The net assets of the Nadra bank were valued at UAH 2,889.9 million as of
July 1, 2004, when its credit portfolio amounted to UAH 2,257.2 million and
its capital amounted to UAH 313.9 million. The bank ended the January-June
period with net profits of UAH 14.978 million after ending the year 2003
with profits of UAH 8.86 million.

The Nadra bank's shareholders are the Kyiv-based Spectrum Mediamart
Ukraine Ltd (17.53%), the Kyiv-based Ukrainian-American Agrocom Ukraine
joint enterprise (14.282%), and the 100% foreign-owned Kyiv-based company
Progress (13.65%). -30- (The Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service)
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