(english / italiano)
Ucraina, l'OSCE si lamenta:
"Il nostro candidato ha perso, percio' voi non siete democratici"
1. I RISULTATI QUASI DEFINITIVI DELLE ELEZIONI PRESIDENZIALI IN UCRAINA
(Mauro Gemma)
2. L'OSCE BOCCIA LE ELEZIONI UCRAINE
... Secondo L'Unita', una prova della scorrettezza delle procedure
elettorali risulterebbe dal fatto che i dati dei seggi sarebbero in
contrasto con gli exit poll forniti... dall'ambasciata USA !!!
(segnalazioni di Luca Sbano)
3. FESTIVITIES BEGINNING IN UKRAINE TO MARK 60TH
ANNIVERSARY OF LIBERATION FROM NAZI INVADERS / Ukrainian 'Velvet'
Putschists Ready For Sunday's Election /Opposition candidate's
supporters use force / Russia's Zyuganov: Western Intelligence
Services Interfere With Ukraine Vote / US and Russia Race for Ukrainian
Presidency / Ukraine to join EU, NATO within five years: Yushchenko /
Extremely tense election race comes to end in Ukraine
VEDI ANCHE / SEE ALSO:
I COMUNISTI SONO PREOCCUPATI DELLE PRESSIONI SENZA PRECEDENTI CHE GLI
USA ESERCITANO SULL’UCRAINA
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/3880
ASSEDIARE LA RUSSIA
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/3903
ASSEDIARE LA RUSSIA (2)
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/3906
ASSEDIARE LA RUSSIA (3)
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/3943
=== 1 ===
I RISULTATI QUASI DEFINITIVI DELLE ELEZIONI PRESIDENZIALI IN UCRAINA
Mentre sto scrivendo, in Ucraina è stato scrutinato il 91,76% delle
schede per il primo turno delle elezioni presidenziali, svoltesi il 31
ottobre. Quasi sicuramente il presidente della repubblica verrà
proclamato al secondo turno, previsto per il 14 novembre.
L’attuale premier Viktor Janukovic, considerato molto vicino alle
posizioni dell’amministrazione russa, con il 40,39% dei voti, raccoglie
i consensi in particolare delle regioni orientali e della Crimea.
Il candidato filo-NATO Viktor Juschenko, che ha usufruito di un enorme
sostegno politico e finanziario da parte dell’amministrazione USA e che
controlla una parte consistente dei “media” nazionali, prevale
nettamente nelle regioni occidentali, dove più forte è la componente
nazionalista anti-russa, raggiungendo il 38,9%.
Il 5,75% dei consensi viene raccolto dal candidato del Partito
Socialista di Ucraina Aleksandr Moroz.
Piotr Simonenko, candidato del Partito Comunista di Ucraina,
tradizionalmente radicato nelle regioni russe e russofone (in Crimea,
alle ultime politiche, aveva ottenuto ben il 70% dei voti, e sul piano
nazionale, il 20%), subisce pesantemente la massiccia risposta popolare
all’appello al voto utile lanciato da Janukovic, che gode dell’aperto
sostegno del presidente russo Vladimir Putin.
L’1,5% andrebbe a Natalja Vitrenko, candidata della formazione di
estrema sinistra Partito Progressista Socialista di Ucraina.
Viktor Juschenko, come era prevedibile, ha già annunciato di non voler
riconoscere l’esito della consultazione, denunciando brogli e
violazioni della legge elettorale, che, per la verità, gli osservatori
indipendenti hanno attribuito proprio ai nazionalisti in alcune zone
dell’occidente del paese. Per questa ragione, nella capitale si avverte
un clima di forte tensione e non vengono esclusi violenti disordini
provocati dai seguaci di Juschenko, che contano sulla reazione della
stampa occidentale, che, in tutte le sue componenti (anche di sinistra,
come “Il Manifesto”) sembra allineata al cliché propagandistico
suggerito dall’amministrazione USA. In tal modo, il ballottaggio
potrebbe svolgersi in un’atmosfera estremamente condizionata dalle
pressioni dell’Occidente, intenzionato ad allineare la propria opinione
pubblica “a difesa della democrazia e dei diritti umani”, e ad usare il
ricatto delle sanzioni come formidabile arma a favore del suo
candidato.
Janukovic, da parte sua, in vista del secondo turno, ha rivolto un
appello a comunisti e socialisti (questi ultimi, che nutrono velleità
circa il loro inserimento tra le forze socialdemocratiche europee
“rispettabili”, potrebbero anche schierarsi con Juschenko), promettendo
il varo di una riforma costituzionale che rafforzerebbe i poteri del
parlamento.
1/11/2004
MAURO GEMMA
=== 2 ===
http://www.repubblica.it/2004/k/sezioni/esteri/eleucra/eleucra/
eleucra.html
L'Osce boccia le elezioni ucraine
"Violate le norme democratiche"
KIEV - L'Organizzazione per la sicurezza e la cooperazione in Europa
(Osce) ha "bocciato" le elezioni presidenziali svoltesi ieri in Ucraina
perchè "non sono state rispettate le norme democratiche internazionali"
Il premier filo-russo Viktor Yanukovich e l'ex premier filo-occidentale
Viktor Yushenko erano usciti sostanzialmente alla pari, con circa il
40% dei voti a testa, dal primo turno delle elezioni presidenziali e in
calendario, il 21 novembre, è previsto il ballottaggio.
Ma subito dopo lo spoglio è arrivata la scure dell'Osce, e ora è
difficile prevedere cosa accadra. "E' con cuore pesante che sulla base
dei nostri riscontri dobbiamo concludere che le elezioni presidenziali
2004 non hanno soddisfatto i criteri dell'Osce e del Consiglio
d'Europa", ha affermato durante una conferenza stampa Bruce George,
capo della missione. "In realtà le elezioni hanno rappresentato un
passo indietro rispetto alle elezioni del 2002", ha aggiunto
riferendosi al voto parlamentare di due anni fa.
(1 novembre 2004)
---
01.11.2004 - da L'Unita' online
Ucraina al voto, l'Osce denuncia brogli. Ballottaggio fra le polemiche
di red
L'Ucraina al voto non rispetta le norme democratiche internazionali. E'
questo il commento dell'Osce alle elezioni presidenziali che si sono
svolte domenica. L'esito della consultazione ha visto una sostanziale
parita' tra i due candidati. Il premier filo-russo Viktor Yanukovich e
l'ex premier filo-occidentale Viktor Yushenko sono usciti alla pari,
con circa il 40% dei voti a testa. Nessuno degli aspiranti capi di
stato ha insomma superato il 50% necessario per vincere l'elezione al
primo turno.
Si andra' allora al ballottaggio, la data e' gia' stata fissata per
il 21 novembre prossimo. L'affluenza alle urne e' stata del 75%, un
record per l'Ucraina postsovetica. Ma tutti gli osservatori sono
concordi nel denunciare brogli. Sarebbero [sarebbero] scomparsi nomi
dai registri elettorali, in una citta', addirittura il 5% degli aventi
diritto sarebbe [sarebbe] stato cancellato dalle liste.
I brogli sarebbero confermati, secondo gli osservatori dell'Unione
Europea, dai risultati diversi, rispetto a quelli ufficiali, degli exit
poll sponsorizzati dall'Ambasciata americana a Kiev [SIC] e da altre
missioni diplomatiche occidentali in Ucraina [SIC]. Secondo questi
sondaggi, Yushenko avrebbe [avrebbe] guadagnato la maggioranza dei
voti, anche senza vincere le elezioni al primo turno.
«E' con cuore pesante che sulla base dei nostri riscontri dobbiamo
concludere che le elezioni presidenziali 2004 non hanno soddisfatto i
criteri dell'Osce, del Consiglio d'Europa e di altre elezioni...», ha
affermato Bruce George, capo della missione Osce. «In realta' le
elezioni hanno rappresentato un passo indietro rispetto alle elezioni
del 2002».
L'Organizzazione per la sicurezza e la cooperazione in Europa (Osce) ha
seguito con circa 600 funzionari le elezioni. Ma il loro monitoraggio
ha evidenziato una schiacciante campagna mediatica a favore del premier
Viktor Yanukovich, gia' aiutato da un massiccio utilizzo di «risorse
governative».
Il 21 novembre sapremo chi tra i due Victor sara' il nuovo presidente
ucraino. Stesso nome per due personaggi alquanto diversi. Uno,
Yanukovich, gode del sostegno del presidente uscente Leonid Kuchma, del
presidente russo Vladimir Putin e di tutto l'establishment
economico-industriale, l'altro, il liberal-nazionalista Yushenko,
vorrebbe aprire all'Ucraina i rapporti con l'Unione Europea.
=== 3 ===
http://en.rian.ru/rian/
index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5010459&startrow=21&date=2004-10-
26&do_alert=0
Russian Information Agencey (Novosti) - October 26, 2004
FESTIVITIES BEGINNING IN UKRAINE TO MARK 60TH
ANNIVERSARY OF LIBERATION FROM NAZI INVADERS
KIEV - Festivities are beginning in Ukraine to mark
the 60th anniversary of Ukraine's liberation from the
Nazi invaders.
The historic Victory Banner, which was hoisted over
Reichstag on April 30, 1945, will arrive in Kiev on
Tuesday.
As RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the
Defence Ministry of Ukraine, the Banner will be
brought to Kiev from Moscow in train No.1 Moscow-Kiev
by the servicemen of the Guard of Honour of the Armed
Forces of the Russian Federation.
On Wednesday, October 27, president of Ukraine Leonid
Kuchma and Russia's president Vladimir Putin who is
leaving for Ukraine on Tuesday on a working visit will
lay flowers at the monument to the Unknown Soldier in
Square of Glory.
Besides that, on Wednesday the heads of state will
participate in a festive meeting to celebrate the
anniversary at the Ukraina National Palace.
On Thursday, October 28, the heads of state will be
present at the military parade and the march of
veterans in Kreshchatik, and will also visit the
museum of the Great Patriotic War.
According to the scenario, the famous combat machine
of the Great Patriotic War, the T-34 tank, will open
the veterans' march. The standards of the four
Ukrainian and of the first Belarussian Fronts whose
personnel liberated Ukraine from the German Nazi
invaders will be carried.
The festive activities will be capped by an artillery
salute and festive fireworks.
By the information of Ukraine's Foreign Ministry,
presidents of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan Nursultan
Nazarbayev and Ilkham Aliyev will arrive to attend the
celebration. President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus
was also invited to participate in the festivities.
---
[To view the Web site some 'anonymous benefactor' has
bestowed on the Pora stormtroopers, see
http://www.pora.org.ua
And for all the millions of Anglophones in Ukraine:
http://www.pora.org.ua/en
The latter site contains this revealing question:
Slovak Republic 1998, Serbia 2000, Georgia 2003.. and
Ukraine 2004. What is common between these countries?]
http://www.rferl.org/newsline/3-cee.asp
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - October 27, 2004
UKRAINIAN YOUTH GROUP ANNOUNCES WEEK OF PROTESTS
The youth organization Pora on 25 October announced at
its website (pora.org.ua/) a "wave of student strikes
and actions" from 25-30 October to protest what it
calls the official repression of the youth movement in
Ukraine. "The repression by the authorities has
acquired a nationwide character," Pora says.
"Explosives, military cartridges, forged money, and
stolen things are surreptitiously placed with the
youth activists whose views do not coincide with
official ones, and criminal cases are being opened
against them. This can't go on any longer!" JM
---
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=10714824
Interfax - October 26, 2004
Opposition candidate's supporters use force -
Ukrainian PM's electoral headquarters
KYIV - Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's
election headquarters on Tuesday issued a statement
saying a group of parliament members headed by Viktor
Yushchenko, the chief opposition candidate in the
presidential election scheduled for October 31,
abusing their parliamentary immunity, broke into the
Central Election Building and disrupted the
commission's meeting in early hours of October 24.
"The trust on the part of the electorate in that
candidate has noticeably fallen and his chances of
being elected are becoming ever more ephemeral, so
Yushchenko's retinue now bet on destabilization and
disruption of the electoral process because they have
understood that they cannot win fairly," the statement
says.
"We place the responsibility for attempts at
destabilizing the country squarely on Viktor
Yushchenko and call his attention to the fact that
using any illegal electoral techniques is
inadmissible," it says.
"Inciting his supporters to violence risks triggering
riots in Ukraine and must be regarded as designed to
undermine the country's national security," the
statement says.
---
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=10715524
Interfax - October 28, 2004
Zyuganov blames West for interfering in Ukrainian vote
MOSCOW - Russian Communist Party leader Gennady
Zyuganov believes that Western intelligence services
have crudely interfered in the situation in Ukraine in
the run-up to the October 31 presidential election.
"I have been in Kyiv for a third day and I see for
myself that the numerous actions of local opposition
bear the earmarks of those groups that at different
times tried to destabilize Prague, Budapest and
Bucharest - the earmarks of U.S. special services," he
told Interfax on Thursday.
Zyuganov said he would not forecast the election
results or interfere in the electoral race in a
neighboring Slavic country.
Russian communists support Petro Symonenko, the leader
of Ukrainian communists, who is running for the
presidency, he said.
Zyuganov would not say who Ukrainian communists will
support if the choice in the second round of elections
is between the two front runners, Viktor Yanukovych
and Victor Yushchenko.
---
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20041029&hn=13416
Zaman (Turkey) - October 29, 2004
US and Russia Race for Ukrainian Presidency
Mirza Cetinkaya
Moscow -Ukrainian presidential elections to be held in
Sunday (October 31) are the scene of a serious and
interesting rival between Russia and US-based West.
Not just Russian President Vladimir Putin but also
Russian artists are even involved in the election
process.
"Our Ukraine" block leader Victor Yushenko and Prime
Minister Victor Yanukovic are expected rivals for the
elections with 26 candidates.
On one hand, Western countries play all the trump
cards for the race while Moscow mobilized all its
sources. The Russian media and public opinion shows
great interest to Ukrainian elections more than the
latest presidential elections in Russia. Yanukovic has
inclinations towards Russia while his rival Yushenko
towards US and the European Union (EU) policies.
Public polls indicate candidates are neck-to-neck.
A political expert Alexei Makarkin evaluating the
scene to Zaman said yesterday that the real field of
contention behind the scenes between US and Russia is
Ukraine.
Makarkin pointed that Washington desires a new
administration, which will speed up the integration
process with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) and the West in contrast to Moscow's insisting
on a Russian-based administration. According to the
diplomatic sources, since US President George W. Bush
is engaged in the US presidential election, NATO and
European countries are trying to affect the Ukrainian
elections.
---
http://www.spacewar.com/2004/041029111255.c7lwzeq4.html
Agence France-Presse - October 29, 2004
Ukraine to join EU, NATO within five years: Yushchenko
KIEV - Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko
said Friday that he would lead his former Soviet
republic into both the European Union and NATO should
he win hotly contested weekend presidential elections.
But he cautioned that serious talk of joining both
Brussels-based blocs could only begin by the end of
his five-year term because Ukraine needed to reform
its own political and military systems first.
"Ukraine needs another three to five years before we
can seriously begin negotiations on these issue,"
Yushchenko told reporters.
"It is easy to talk about positives of membership, but
we will have to deal with the negatives first,"
Yushchenko said.
He said Ukraine needed a major overhaul in its current
legislation that included an easing of import duties
that would allow the West to recognize the republic -
now one of Europe's poorest states - as a market
economy.
He indirectly pinned blame for Ukraine's economic
malaise on the outgoing regime of President Leonid
Kuchma, who took a more cautious line on opening his
republic's markets toward the West.
"We are talking about the institution of a brand new
fiscal, budget and trade policy. We will have to adopt
many new laws that will be difficult to swallow for
some of our ministers, and that they may try to resist
at first," he said.
"Membership will require a great political will," he
said.
But Yushchenko stressed that he would be leading his
government's charge toward integration into the two
Western blocs, placing trade with Russia on the back
burner.
"After forming a new government, our first goal will
be to develop a broader political strategy,"
Yushchenko said.
"And here, we must prepare for the European option,"
said Yushchenko, who served as Ukraine's central bank
chief for seven years before serving for nearly two
years as prime minister, when he tried to break
corrupt links between government and business.
"First, I want Ukraine to be recognized as a market
economy, and then as a provisional member of the
European Union."
Sunday's election pits Yushchenko against Kuchma's
anointed successor, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich,
who instead is pushing Ukraine toward a closer
partnership with its Soviet-era master Russia [sic].
Ukraine's public opinion is evenly split between its
allegiances to Moscow and the West, with the
candidates both expected to face off in a November 21
runoff.
Earlier Friday, Yushchenko predicted victory in the
first round with 60 percent of the vote.
---
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1404616&PageNum=0
Itar-Tass - October 30, 2004
Extremely tense election race comes to end in Ukraine
KIEV - In slightly less than 48 hours from now,
Ukraine will know the names of two main contenders in
the second round of the presidential election,
although it has been clear for quite a time that the
two men are the incumbent Prime Minister Viktor
Yanukovich and the leading oppositionist Viktor
Yuschenko.
Polls indicate both of them may get a more or less
equal percentage of votes in the first round of
voting, but none is likely to get more than a half of
all the votes so as to emerge victorious right from
the October 31 voting.
Sociologists indicate that, in most likelihood, the
president will be elected in the second round, due
November 21.
In Ukraine, the presidential term of office lasts five
years.
Yanukovich and Yuschenko issued appeals to their
supporters several days ago to refrain from mass
actions and to observe law and public order, but
people in the capital Kiev are fearful of provocations
and the situation here remains somewhat tense.
Rumors are circulating that clashes are possible in
case of vote rigging of other gross violations of the
law.
The candidates are going to spend the last day before
election differently. Yanukovich says he is going to
have a normal work schedule and to go to church, while
Yuschenko and the third closest contender, Socialist
Party leader Alexander Moroz, will stay with their
families.
Experts say the election race that ended Friday is the
dirtiest over the 13 years of Ukraine’s independence,
as some of the candidates openly joggled with national
symbols, gave out bluntly unfeasible promises, or
spread sheer lies about their opponents.
Agitation was apparently aimed at splitting Ukraine
into two parts – the mostly Ukrainian West and the
mixed Russian-Ukrainian East. Along with it, the
agitators kept stressing the difference between close
relations with Russia and European integration.
The novelty of the technology was that the two leading
candidates did not apportion blame to each other
directly, as the role was played by minor “technical”
candidates.
Ukraine’s Central Electoral Commission says the
country has 37.6 million voters, who are expected to
vote at about 33,300 polling stations inside Ukraine
and at 125 stations abroad.
As of August 1, 2004, the total population stood at
47.4 million people.
Ucraina, l'OSCE si lamenta:
"Il nostro candidato ha perso, percio' voi non siete democratici"
1. I RISULTATI QUASI DEFINITIVI DELLE ELEZIONI PRESIDENZIALI IN UCRAINA
(Mauro Gemma)
2. L'OSCE BOCCIA LE ELEZIONI UCRAINE
... Secondo L'Unita', una prova della scorrettezza delle procedure
elettorali risulterebbe dal fatto che i dati dei seggi sarebbero in
contrasto con gli exit poll forniti... dall'ambasciata USA !!!
(segnalazioni di Luca Sbano)
3. FESTIVITIES BEGINNING IN UKRAINE TO MARK 60TH
ANNIVERSARY OF LIBERATION FROM NAZI INVADERS / Ukrainian 'Velvet'
Putschists Ready For Sunday's Election /Opposition candidate's
supporters use force / Russia's Zyuganov: Western Intelligence
Services Interfere With Ukraine Vote / US and Russia Race for Ukrainian
Presidency / Ukraine to join EU, NATO within five years: Yushchenko /
Extremely tense election race comes to end in Ukraine
VEDI ANCHE / SEE ALSO:
I COMUNISTI SONO PREOCCUPATI DELLE PRESSIONI SENZA PRECEDENTI CHE GLI
USA ESERCITANO SULL’UCRAINA
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/3880
ASSEDIARE LA RUSSIA
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/3903
ASSEDIARE LA RUSSIA (2)
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/3906
ASSEDIARE LA RUSSIA (3)
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/3943
=== 1 ===
I RISULTATI QUASI DEFINITIVI DELLE ELEZIONI PRESIDENZIALI IN UCRAINA
Mentre sto scrivendo, in Ucraina è stato scrutinato il 91,76% delle
schede per il primo turno delle elezioni presidenziali, svoltesi il 31
ottobre. Quasi sicuramente il presidente della repubblica verrà
proclamato al secondo turno, previsto per il 14 novembre.
L’attuale premier Viktor Janukovic, considerato molto vicino alle
posizioni dell’amministrazione russa, con il 40,39% dei voti, raccoglie
i consensi in particolare delle regioni orientali e della Crimea.
Il candidato filo-NATO Viktor Juschenko, che ha usufruito di un enorme
sostegno politico e finanziario da parte dell’amministrazione USA e che
controlla una parte consistente dei “media” nazionali, prevale
nettamente nelle regioni occidentali, dove più forte è la componente
nazionalista anti-russa, raggiungendo il 38,9%.
Il 5,75% dei consensi viene raccolto dal candidato del Partito
Socialista di Ucraina Aleksandr Moroz.
Piotr Simonenko, candidato del Partito Comunista di Ucraina,
tradizionalmente radicato nelle regioni russe e russofone (in Crimea,
alle ultime politiche, aveva ottenuto ben il 70% dei voti, e sul piano
nazionale, il 20%), subisce pesantemente la massiccia risposta popolare
all’appello al voto utile lanciato da Janukovic, che gode dell’aperto
sostegno del presidente russo Vladimir Putin.
L’1,5% andrebbe a Natalja Vitrenko, candidata della formazione di
estrema sinistra Partito Progressista Socialista di Ucraina.
Viktor Juschenko, come era prevedibile, ha già annunciato di non voler
riconoscere l’esito della consultazione, denunciando brogli e
violazioni della legge elettorale, che, per la verità, gli osservatori
indipendenti hanno attribuito proprio ai nazionalisti in alcune zone
dell’occidente del paese. Per questa ragione, nella capitale si avverte
un clima di forte tensione e non vengono esclusi violenti disordini
provocati dai seguaci di Juschenko, che contano sulla reazione della
stampa occidentale, che, in tutte le sue componenti (anche di sinistra,
come “Il Manifesto”) sembra allineata al cliché propagandistico
suggerito dall’amministrazione USA. In tal modo, il ballottaggio
potrebbe svolgersi in un’atmosfera estremamente condizionata dalle
pressioni dell’Occidente, intenzionato ad allineare la propria opinione
pubblica “a difesa della democrazia e dei diritti umani”, e ad usare il
ricatto delle sanzioni come formidabile arma a favore del suo
candidato.
Janukovic, da parte sua, in vista del secondo turno, ha rivolto un
appello a comunisti e socialisti (questi ultimi, che nutrono velleità
circa il loro inserimento tra le forze socialdemocratiche europee
“rispettabili”, potrebbero anche schierarsi con Juschenko), promettendo
il varo di una riforma costituzionale che rafforzerebbe i poteri del
parlamento.
1/11/2004
MAURO GEMMA
=== 2 ===
http://www.repubblica.it/2004/k/sezioni/esteri/eleucra/eleucra/
eleucra.html
L'Osce boccia le elezioni ucraine
"Violate le norme democratiche"
KIEV - L'Organizzazione per la sicurezza e la cooperazione in Europa
(Osce) ha "bocciato" le elezioni presidenziali svoltesi ieri in Ucraina
perchè "non sono state rispettate le norme democratiche internazionali"
Il premier filo-russo Viktor Yanukovich e l'ex premier filo-occidentale
Viktor Yushenko erano usciti sostanzialmente alla pari, con circa il
40% dei voti a testa, dal primo turno delle elezioni presidenziali e in
calendario, il 21 novembre, è previsto il ballottaggio.
Ma subito dopo lo spoglio è arrivata la scure dell'Osce, e ora è
difficile prevedere cosa accadra. "E' con cuore pesante che sulla base
dei nostri riscontri dobbiamo concludere che le elezioni presidenziali
2004 non hanno soddisfatto i criteri dell'Osce e del Consiglio
d'Europa", ha affermato durante una conferenza stampa Bruce George,
capo della missione. "In realtà le elezioni hanno rappresentato un
passo indietro rispetto alle elezioni del 2002", ha aggiunto
riferendosi al voto parlamentare di due anni fa.
(1 novembre 2004)
---
01.11.2004 - da L'Unita' online
Ucraina al voto, l'Osce denuncia brogli. Ballottaggio fra le polemiche
di red
L'Ucraina al voto non rispetta le norme democratiche internazionali. E'
questo il commento dell'Osce alle elezioni presidenziali che si sono
svolte domenica. L'esito della consultazione ha visto una sostanziale
parita' tra i due candidati. Il premier filo-russo Viktor Yanukovich e
l'ex premier filo-occidentale Viktor Yushenko sono usciti alla pari,
con circa il 40% dei voti a testa. Nessuno degli aspiranti capi di
stato ha insomma superato il 50% necessario per vincere l'elezione al
primo turno.
Si andra' allora al ballottaggio, la data e' gia' stata fissata per
il 21 novembre prossimo. L'affluenza alle urne e' stata del 75%, un
record per l'Ucraina postsovetica. Ma tutti gli osservatori sono
concordi nel denunciare brogli. Sarebbero [sarebbero] scomparsi nomi
dai registri elettorali, in una citta', addirittura il 5% degli aventi
diritto sarebbe [sarebbe] stato cancellato dalle liste.
I brogli sarebbero confermati, secondo gli osservatori dell'Unione
Europea, dai risultati diversi, rispetto a quelli ufficiali, degli exit
poll sponsorizzati dall'Ambasciata americana a Kiev [SIC] e da altre
missioni diplomatiche occidentali in Ucraina [SIC]. Secondo questi
sondaggi, Yushenko avrebbe [avrebbe] guadagnato la maggioranza dei
voti, anche senza vincere le elezioni al primo turno.
«E' con cuore pesante che sulla base dei nostri riscontri dobbiamo
concludere che le elezioni presidenziali 2004 non hanno soddisfatto i
criteri dell'Osce, del Consiglio d'Europa e di altre elezioni...», ha
affermato Bruce George, capo della missione Osce. «In realta' le
elezioni hanno rappresentato un passo indietro rispetto alle elezioni
del 2002».
L'Organizzazione per la sicurezza e la cooperazione in Europa (Osce) ha
seguito con circa 600 funzionari le elezioni. Ma il loro monitoraggio
ha evidenziato una schiacciante campagna mediatica a favore del premier
Viktor Yanukovich, gia' aiutato da un massiccio utilizzo di «risorse
governative».
Il 21 novembre sapremo chi tra i due Victor sara' il nuovo presidente
ucraino. Stesso nome per due personaggi alquanto diversi. Uno,
Yanukovich, gode del sostegno del presidente uscente Leonid Kuchma, del
presidente russo Vladimir Putin e di tutto l'establishment
economico-industriale, l'altro, il liberal-nazionalista Yushenko,
vorrebbe aprire all'Ucraina i rapporti con l'Unione Europea.
=== 3 ===
http://en.rian.ru/rian/
index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5010459&startrow=21&date=2004-10-
26&do_alert=0
Russian Information Agencey (Novosti) - October 26, 2004
FESTIVITIES BEGINNING IN UKRAINE TO MARK 60TH
ANNIVERSARY OF LIBERATION FROM NAZI INVADERS
KIEV - Festivities are beginning in Ukraine to mark
the 60th anniversary of Ukraine's liberation from the
Nazi invaders.
The historic Victory Banner, which was hoisted over
Reichstag on April 30, 1945, will arrive in Kiev on
Tuesday.
As RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the
Defence Ministry of Ukraine, the Banner will be
brought to Kiev from Moscow in train No.1 Moscow-Kiev
by the servicemen of the Guard of Honour of the Armed
Forces of the Russian Federation.
On Wednesday, October 27, president of Ukraine Leonid
Kuchma and Russia's president Vladimir Putin who is
leaving for Ukraine on Tuesday on a working visit will
lay flowers at the monument to the Unknown Soldier in
Square of Glory.
Besides that, on Wednesday the heads of state will
participate in a festive meeting to celebrate the
anniversary at the Ukraina National Palace.
On Thursday, October 28, the heads of state will be
present at the military parade and the march of
veterans in Kreshchatik, and will also visit the
museum of the Great Patriotic War.
According to the scenario, the famous combat machine
of the Great Patriotic War, the T-34 tank, will open
the veterans' march. The standards of the four
Ukrainian and of the first Belarussian Fronts whose
personnel liberated Ukraine from the German Nazi
invaders will be carried.
The festive activities will be capped by an artillery
salute and festive fireworks.
By the information of Ukraine's Foreign Ministry,
presidents of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan Nursultan
Nazarbayev and Ilkham Aliyev will arrive to attend the
celebration. President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus
was also invited to participate in the festivities.
---
[To view the Web site some 'anonymous benefactor' has
bestowed on the Pora stormtroopers, see
http://www.pora.org.ua
And for all the millions of Anglophones in Ukraine:
http://www.pora.org.ua/en
The latter site contains this revealing question:
Slovak Republic 1998, Serbia 2000, Georgia 2003.. and
Ukraine 2004. What is common between these countries?]
http://www.rferl.org/newsline/3-cee.asp
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - October 27, 2004
UKRAINIAN YOUTH GROUP ANNOUNCES WEEK OF PROTESTS
The youth organization Pora on 25 October announced at
its website (pora.org.ua/) a "wave of student strikes
and actions" from 25-30 October to protest what it
calls the official repression of the youth movement in
Ukraine. "The repression by the authorities has
acquired a nationwide character," Pora says.
"Explosives, military cartridges, forged money, and
stolen things are surreptitiously placed with the
youth activists whose views do not coincide with
official ones, and criminal cases are being opened
against them. This can't go on any longer!" JM
---
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=10714824
Interfax - October 26, 2004
Opposition candidate's supporters use force -
Ukrainian PM's electoral headquarters
KYIV - Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's
election headquarters on Tuesday issued a statement
saying a group of parliament members headed by Viktor
Yushchenko, the chief opposition candidate in the
presidential election scheduled for October 31,
abusing their parliamentary immunity, broke into the
Central Election Building and disrupted the
commission's meeting in early hours of October 24.
"The trust on the part of the electorate in that
candidate has noticeably fallen and his chances of
being elected are becoming ever more ephemeral, so
Yushchenko's retinue now bet on destabilization and
disruption of the electoral process because they have
understood that they cannot win fairly," the statement
says.
"We place the responsibility for attempts at
destabilizing the country squarely on Viktor
Yushchenko and call his attention to the fact that
using any illegal electoral techniques is
inadmissible," it says.
"Inciting his supporters to violence risks triggering
riots in Ukraine and must be regarded as designed to
undermine the country's national security," the
statement says.
---
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=10715524
Interfax - October 28, 2004
Zyuganov blames West for interfering in Ukrainian vote
MOSCOW - Russian Communist Party leader Gennady
Zyuganov believes that Western intelligence services
have crudely interfered in the situation in Ukraine in
the run-up to the October 31 presidential election.
"I have been in Kyiv for a third day and I see for
myself that the numerous actions of local opposition
bear the earmarks of those groups that at different
times tried to destabilize Prague, Budapest and
Bucharest - the earmarks of U.S. special services," he
told Interfax on Thursday.
Zyuganov said he would not forecast the election
results or interfere in the electoral race in a
neighboring Slavic country.
Russian communists support Petro Symonenko, the leader
of Ukrainian communists, who is running for the
presidency, he said.
Zyuganov would not say who Ukrainian communists will
support if the choice in the second round of elections
is between the two front runners, Viktor Yanukovych
and Victor Yushchenko.
---
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20041029&hn=13416
Zaman (Turkey) - October 29, 2004
US and Russia Race for Ukrainian Presidency
Mirza Cetinkaya
Moscow -Ukrainian presidential elections to be held in
Sunday (October 31) are the scene of a serious and
interesting rival between Russia and US-based West.
Not just Russian President Vladimir Putin but also
Russian artists are even involved in the election
process.
"Our Ukraine" block leader Victor Yushenko and Prime
Minister Victor Yanukovic are expected rivals for the
elections with 26 candidates.
On one hand, Western countries play all the trump
cards for the race while Moscow mobilized all its
sources. The Russian media and public opinion shows
great interest to Ukrainian elections more than the
latest presidential elections in Russia. Yanukovic has
inclinations towards Russia while his rival Yushenko
towards US and the European Union (EU) policies.
Public polls indicate candidates are neck-to-neck.
A political expert Alexei Makarkin evaluating the
scene to Zaman said yesterday that the real field of
contention behind the scenes between US and Russia is
Ukraine.
Makarkin pointed that Washington desires a new
administration, which will speed up the integration
process with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) and the West in contrast to Moscow's insisting
on a Russian-based administration. According to the
diplomatic sources, since US President George W. Bush
is engaged in the US presidential election, NATO and
European countries are trying to affect the Ukrainian
elections.
---
http://www.spacewar.com/2004/041029111255.c7lwzeq4.html
Agence France-Presse - October 29, 2004
Ukraine to join EU, NATO within five years: Yushchenko
KIEV - Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko
said Friday that he would lead his former Soviet
republic into both the European Union and NATO should
he win hotly contested weekend presidential elections.
But he cautioned that serious talk of joining both
Brussels-based blocs could only begin by the end of
his five-year term because Ukraine needed to reform
its own political and military systems first.
"Ukraine needs another three to five years before we
can seriously begin negotiations on these issue,"
Yushchenko told reporters.
"It is easy to talk about positives of membership, but
we will have to deal with the negatives first,"
Yushchenko said.
He said Ukraine needed a major overhaul in its current
legislation that included an easing of import duties
that would allow the West to recognize the republic -
now one of Europe's poorest states - as a market
economy.
He indirectly pinned blame for Ukraine's economic
malaise on the outgoing regime of President Leonid
Kuchma, who took a more cautious line on opening his
republic's markets toward the West.
"We are talking about the institution of a brand new
fiscal, budget and trade policy. We will have to adopt
many new laws that will be difficult to swallow for
some of our ministers, and that they may try to resist
at first," he said.
"Membership will require a great political will," he
said.
But Yushchenko stressed that he would be leading his
government's charge toward integration into the two
Western blocs, placing trade with Russia on the back
burner.
"After forming a new government, our first goal will
be to develop a broader political strategy,"
Yushchenko said.
"And here, we must prepare for the European option,"
said Yushchenko, who served as Ukraine's central bank
chief for seven years before serving for nearly two
years as prime minister, when he tried to break
corrupt links between government and business.
"First, I want Ukraine to be recognized as a market
economy, and then as a provisional member of the
European Union."
Sunday's election pits Yushchenko against Kuchma's
anointed successor, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich,
who instead is pushing Ukraine toward a closer
partnership with its Soviet-era master Russia [sic].
Ukraine's public opinion is evenly split between its
allegiances to Moscow and the West, with the
candidates both expected to face off in a November 21
runoff.
Earlier Friday, Yushchenko predicted victory in the
first round with 60 percent of the vote.
---
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1404616&PageNum=0
Itar-Tass - October 30, 2004
Extremely tense election race comes to end in Ukraine
KIEV - In slightly less than 48 hours from now,
Ukraine will know the names of two main contenders in
the second round of the presidential election,
although it has been clear for quite a time that the
two men are the incumbent Prime Minister Viktor
Yanukovich and the leading oppositionist Viktor
Yuschenko.
Polls indicate both of them may get a more or less
equal percentage of votes in the first round of
voting, but none is likely to get more than a half of
all the votes so as to emerge victorious right from
the October 31 voting.
Sociologists indicate that, in most likelihood, the
president will be elected in the second round, due
November 21.
In Ukraine, the presidential term of office lasts five
years.
Yanukovich and Yuschenko issued appeals to their
supporters several days ago to refrain from mass
actions and to observe law and public order, but
people in the capital Kiev are fearful of provocations
and the situation here remains somewhat tense.
Rumors are circulating that clashes are possible in
case of vote rigging of other gross violations of the
law.
The candidates are going to spend the last day before
election differently. Yanukovich says he is going to
have a normal work schedule and to go to church, while
Yuschenko and the third closest contender, Socialist
Party leader Alexander Moroz, will stay with their
families.
Experts say the election race that ended Friday is the
dirtiest over the 13 years of Ukraine’s independence,
as some of the candidates openly joggled with national
symbols, gave out bluntly unfeasible promises, or
spread sheer lies about their opponents.
Agitation was apparently aimed at splitting Ukraine
into two parts – the mostly Ukrainian West and the
mixed Russian-Ukrainian East. Along with it, the
agitators kept stressing the difference between close
relations with Russia and European integration.
The novelty of the technology was that the two leading
candidates did not apportion blame to each other
directly, as the role was played by minor “technical”
candidates.
Ukraine’s Central Electoral Commission says the
country has 37.6 million voters, who are expected to
vote at about 33,300 polling stations inside Ukraine
and at 125 stations abroad.
As of August 1, 2004, the total population stood at
47.4 million people.