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...paid for his notoriously high lifestyle of posh cars, penthouse apartments and expensive parties with revenues from Orange revolution symbols, patented in his name as trademarks and sold at the market like hot pies. Yushchenko only added insult to injury last summer, when he lashed out at the journalist Serhiy Leshchenko, 25, who wrote an expose of the presidential son. "The most amazing thing is that Yushchenko himself co-authored my story - and failed to realize this," Leshchenko told me at the time. "It was only due to his Orange revolution that now a journalist can write such stories...
...resale of the popular Dynamo football club. There are bound to be protracted legal challenges to come. Pinchuk and Akhmetov are said to be trying to work out a behind-the-scenes deal for the steel mill, but they have also filed their appeal. Pinchuk's lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko told the daily Kyiv Post last month: "I do not see the legal grounds on which to review [the Kryvorizhstal] sale." Under the circumstances, even Yushchenko's supporters worry that the question of how and whether to reprivatize Kryvorizhstal and other companies could be an unwelcome distraction. Yuri Klyuchkovsky...
...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-expression guarantees. "Ukraine is the most informationally open country...
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