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...vigor. Though he insists it will, those kinds of doubts are dangerous in an unstable environment such as Ukraine. For weeks, Yushchenko has been sustained by adrenalin and the certainty of making history. "During these 17 days we have built a new country," he told a jubilant crowd in Kiev's Independence Square last Wednesday. Hours before, the Ukrainian parliament, with the backing of Kuchma, had passed a package of electoral and constitutional reforms that boosted Yushchenko's chances in the Dec. 26 vote. "We'll remember [these days,]" Yushchenko predicted, "as the best in our lives...
...while the constitutional changes must be reviewed by the next Parliament - and could be modified. "The point is, we've been fighting for honest elections - and it's honest elections we're getting now," says Svistovich. In Donetsk in the industrial heartland of the east, some 700 km from Kiev, anger about the election's annulment is still rife. Most people here voted for Yanukovych, and for nine nights running, demonstrators gathered in Lenin Square to denounce "the vile Americans who hired their vile agent Yushchenko to split Ukraine and grab it piecemeal," as one recent speaker put it. Leading...
...scenes of young people blowing whistles, banging drums and handing out cough drops amid the throng of protesters in Kiev last week looked familiar, they should: student-led mass protests also followed disputed elections in Tbilisi last year and in Belgrade in 2000, and each time the opposition prevailed. At least one group has played a role in all three movements. Serbia's Otpor, or Resistance, the student organization that spearheaded the revolution that ousted Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, sent "trainers" to aid activists who helped unseat Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze in 2003. And earlier this year, the group provided...
...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...
...this season there has been London and Kiev and Zurich. Later there will be the Chrissie Evert tennis tournament. He turned her down at first because he ached so badly after last year, then rethought and e-mailed her, "O.K. Can't give up on show-biz tennis." All the while he invokes Satchel Paige: "Don't look back. Something may be gaining...