Word: volodymyr
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...intended to call on the hundreds still camping on the Maidan to fold up their tents, and invite them back to the square on New Year's Eve to celebrate the orange revolution's victory. But as he was about to leave for the speech, two close allies, M.P.s Volodymyr Felenko and Taras Stetskiv, rushed into his office. Government sources had told them Yanukovych planned to chair a Cabinet meeting the following day, thumbing his nose at the still-unofficial result. "It was an open insult to the people, and to the Rada [parliament] that voted to fire Yanukovych earlier...
...toxic form of dioxin, as the cause of the Ukrainian opposition leader's grievous illness and facial disfigurement. Yushchenko claimed that the poisoning took place on Sept. 5 at a dinner with General Ihor Smeshko, head of the SBU, Ukraine's domestic security service, and Smeshko's First Deputy, Volodymyr Satsyuk. "That was the only place where no one from my team was present and no precautions were taken concerning the food," Yushchenko said on Dec. 16. The next day, campaigning for the Dec. 26 rerun of the presidential vote, he backtracked a bit, saying he did not intend...
...poisoning? "Of course, it was done by the authorities," Yushchenko told TIME last week, calling it "an act of political reprisal" by the government of departing President Leonid Kuchma, which supports Yushchenko's rival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. "All such allegations must be thoroughly investigated," says Kuchma loyalist Volodymyr Sivkovych, who headed a parliamentary investigation that noted that although Yushchenko complained of pains after dining with Ukraine's secret-service chief on Sept. 5, the food had been served on common plates and the drink from bottles uncorked in front of everyone...
...human rights activists have been convicted since 1976 on charges ranging from hooliganism to sexual offenses. In Kiev, both Jewish and Ukrainian activists have been severely beaten by KGB agents. In one celebrated case last year, witnesses say they saw two men force a popular Ukrainian nationalist composer, Volodymyr Ivasiuk, 31, into a KGB car. Three weeks later his body was found hanging from a tree; his eyes had been gouged out. Such acts of brutality-still rare but apparently on the increase-are strictly illegal. The KGB, however, remains capable of acting as a law unto itself...
Montague-Smith traces the line through Harold's daughter Gytha, who after the fateful day at Senlac Hill wandered to Denmark, where she met and married Volodymyr Monomakh, Grand Prince of Kiev. The line then meanders through many monarchies-Hungarian, Aragonese, French-and finally back to Britain at the time of Edward II, whose brutal murder in 1327 provided a gory conclusion to Christopher Marlowe's biographical play. To Britons of Saxon descent who may still harbor resentment over the Norman Conquest, the fact that their Queen shares brave Harold Godwinson's blood can only come...