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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...
...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...
...ugly in the run up to the March 14 election? When Rybkin told his story late last week at a press conference in London, where he had fled, it was the third version he had offered. In the first account, he said he'd gone for a rest in Kiev. The next day he'd told a confused story of constant surveillance by the FSB, the state security agency, and growing concern for his safety while in the Ukrainian capital. Now - presumably free to speak the truth, although his wife and family remain in Russia - he explained that...