Division of Ukraine unacceptable: Kuchma
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Outgoing President Leonid Kuchma said he could not accept the division of Ukraine, after meeting with the regional leaders who have threatened to demand autonomy following the disputed presidential election.
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma signed a decree dismissing the Cabinet of Ministers, which should fulfil its duties until the new government starts working, the presidential press service reported Wednesday ...
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Papers in Ukraine and neighbouring countries fear the Ukrainian political crisis could descend into violence.
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KIEV -- The roots of Ukraine's political crisis lie in a centuries-old divide between the country's east and west, a split between two cultures, two languages, and two histories within the same nation.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - The Ukrainian parliament appealed Friday to President Leonid Kuchma to withdraw the country's 1,600 soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, a largely symbolic move intended to pressure Kuchma in the midst of the country's spiralling political crisis.
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Facing a relentless tide of opposition protests, embattled President Leonid Kuchma said Monday that a new election might be the only way out of a spiraling crisis that threatens to break up this former Soviet republic between the pro-Russia east and the
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Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma has urged all the political forces to keep passions in check and renounce the attempts to destabilize the situation in the country.
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma says his country should gradually reduce its contingent in Iraq.
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Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma said Monday he would not meet demands from liberal challenger Viktor Yushchenko to dismiss his government or reform election laws until the opposition agreed to curb presidential powers.
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Ukraine's outgoing President Leonid Kuchma Monday rejected reform of the country's election laws on terms set by the opposition ahead of a re-run of the ex-Soviet state's rigged vote later this month.
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LEONID KUCHMA, the outgoing President of Ukraine, called for a new presidential election yesterday, saying that the financial system could collapse âlike a house of cardsâ if a stand-off over the last vote was not resolved within days.
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Ukraine's outgoing President Leonid Kuchma accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich on Wednesday, but the country remains in political limbo during a drawn-out transition after last month's election.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Key players in Ukraine's political crisis failed to resolve the tensions in nearly three hours of talks Friday, but President Leonid Kuchma said progress was made.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - Outgoing Ukrainian President  Leonid Kuchma, facing mass protests over a disputed  presidential election, Monday called for a new poll to help end  the crisis tearing the nation apart.
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Ukraine&#39;s political crisis continued Wednesday with parliament and President Leonid Kuchma unable to reach an agreement on a new election commission and electoral reforms.
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Yushchenko: We see this as interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine. This is debasing for Russia, it debases its authority, its policies, the entire state.
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma sacked his defense minister on Wednesday for failing to deal with hundreds of thousands of tons of Soviet-era weapons and ammunition that he said threaten the country's ...