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...Pora and Otpor deny the charge. Andriy Yusov, a key Pora coordinator in Kiev, says the group was founded just this year to monitor and ensure fair elections; it is not affiliated with the opposition party. In Kiev, the group has handled everything from maintaining public order to blockading government offices. Yusov stresses that Pora has never received U.S. funding and that while 18 members traveled to Serbia in the spring and met with Otpor leaders at a "seminar" in the city of Novi Sad, they paid for themselves. Yusov dismissed the idea that Otpor, or the Center...
...very effective censorship" and urged the Ukrainian parliament - which called hearings on the matter on Dec. 4 in response to complaints from journalists and media monitoring groups - to enforce guarantees of free expression. "Maybe we don't have censorship de jure, but it certainly exists de facto," says Andriy Shchevchenko, leader of the newly formed Independent Media Union. Serhiy Vasilyev, head of President Kuchma's Information Department, insisted the memos were nothing more than simple press releases. But some 500 journalists signed a manifesto in which they threatened to strike in protest against the temniki and in support of free...
Heaven knows why they call it a consolation goal, because it's usually anything but. When Andriy Shevchenko, Ukraine's star striker, scored in the dying moments of the second leg of his country's World Cup play-off against Germany on Nov. 14, he knew the goal would serve no purpose: the Germans were already leading by four. As the final whistle sounded in Dortmund's Westfalenstadion, the Ukrainians slumped to the turf. Shevchenko was shattered. "The door of the World Cup is closed to me," he said later. Football fans around the world mourned with Shevchenko, for they...
...Andriy Demydenko, who heads the Department of Environmental Education, Information and Public Relations at the Ministry for Environmental Protection of Ukraine, addressed about 45 people at the event...