Word: yushchenko
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RESIGNED. VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO, 47, popular Prime Minister of Ukraine, after receiving a vote of no confidence from the communist-led opposition in parliament; in Kiev. His ouster, which was met with the biggest protest in three months of political turmoil, removes the main check on the power of the business oligarchs to whom embattled President Leonid Kuchma is largely beholden. RESIGNED. CUMHUR ERSUMER, 48, Turkish Energy Minister and the highest-ranking official to step down over a graft scandal that partially triggered the country's economic crisis; in Ankara. Ersumer's announcement pushed Turkey's stock market up more than...