11 March 2005 -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is scheduled to visit Washington early next month.
Yushchenko and Tymoshenko are now looking to repeat their success in 2006 More than 6,000 delegates gathered in Kyiv on 5 March to set up a party called Our Ukraine People's Union (NSNU), which is to provide political support to the government of President Viktor Yushchenko and vie for a substantial parliamentary representation in the 2006 general elections.
Viktor Yushchenko (file photo) 9 March 2005 -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko today called for quick moves aimed at bringing Ukraine into the European Union and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
9 March 2005 -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko today called for quick moves aimed at bringing Ukraine into the European Union and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
7 March 2005 -- Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma joined mourners today at the funeral of former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko, who died under mysterious circumstances on 4 March.
Leonid Kuchma (file photo) Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma returned to Kyiv on 5 March after cutting short his vacation in the spa resort of Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. He arrived the same day that some members of parliament were calling for his arrest in the investigation of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze's abduction and killing in 2000, and a suicide note by former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko was revealed in which he blames his suicide on "political intrigues" by "Kuchma and his supporters."
Is Putin stoking anti-Americanism for domestic political purposes? Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, who is one of President Vladimir Putin's closest confidants and is regularly mentioned as a possible successor to Putin in 2008, made some uncharacteristic political statements in a 1 March interview with "Moskovskii komsomolets." "Only democrats, with their split personalities, could believe that we might get help from abroad," Ivanov said. "Nobody will help us except ourselves. Therefore we should be powerful and capable of guaranteeing our national security in any situation."'
Former President Kuchma (file photo) 5 March 2005 -- Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma returned to Kyiv today, one day after the apparent suicide of his former interior minister.
Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin (file photo) Moldova holds parliamentary elections on 6 March amid hopes among the fractured opposition for some kind of Ukrainian-style Orange Revolution. The elections will determine the country's president -- which by law is elected by parliament. RFE/RL looks at the main candidates, the issues, and the chances that the opposition's hopes will be met.
Yuriy Kravchenko Prague, 4 March 2005 -- Former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko was found dead in his home today just hours before he was scheduled to be questioned about the killing of an investigative journalist.
Former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko was found dead in his country home on 4 March, just hours before he was to appear before prosecutors for questioning related to his possible involvement in the death of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze in September 2000.
4 March 2005 -- Former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko, who was scheduled to appear before the Prosecutor-General's Office today for questioning, was found dead this morning at his country home outside Kyiv.
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