BBC World on Kuchmagate
02/10/2001 | I
Це була друга новина в десятигодинному випуску новин... після неї йшла новина про американську підлоку.
Показали дуже (як для ВВС Ворлд) довгий сюжет, в якому з початку розповідалася вся історія. Показали, як викопували тіло, Мороза з касетами, наметове містечко, Мартинюка, який сказав, що розмови з високою ймовірністю підслуховували, але інкримінуючі -- підробили. Але голос кореспондента не мав тіні сумнівів щодо автентичності плівок. В кінці прозвучали слова про нове об"єднання опозиції та про вимогу імпічменту. Ось так. Нарешті найконсервативніший новинний канал прорвало розповісти про Україну (а то вже дратувало -- десь в Африці зіштовхнуться два автобуси, так це для них новина, а в Україні таке твориться, а вони ні гу-гу. Схаменулися.)
Показали дуже (як для ВВС Ворлд) довгий сюжет, в якому з початку розповідалася вся історія. Показали, як викопували тіло, Мороза з касетами, наметове містечко, Мартинюка, який сказав, що розмови з високою ймовірністю підслуховували, але інкримінуючі -- підробили. Але голос кореспондента не мав тіні сумнівів щодо автентичності плівок. В кінці прозвучали слова про нове об"єднання опозиції та про вимогу імпічменту. Ось так. Нарешті найконсервативніший новинний канал прорвало розповісти про Україну (а то вже дратувало -- десь в Африці зіштовхнуться два автобуси, так це для них новина, а в Україні таке твориться, а вони ні гу-гу. Схаменулися.)
Відповіді
2001.02.10 | Пані
Re: BBC World on Kuchmagate
I писав(ла):> касетами, наметове містечко, Мартинюка, який
Наверное все-таки Мартыненко?
А то Мартынюк прочитает и расстроится
2001.02.10 | I
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Звичайно Мартиненко... Він там, до речі, непогано виглядав: не такий "опущенный" як на УТ-1. Видно для BBC підфарбували трохи...2001.02.11 | Broker
BBC World: Ukraine President Sacks Security Chiefs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1164000/1164193.stm
Ukraine President Sacks Security Chiefs
Sackings could be seized upon by protesters
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma has sacked the head of his security
service and the chief of his personal bodyguard.
Their sackings follow waves of protest after it was revealed the president's
office was bugged by a former bodyguard and allegations were made of his
involvement in the murder of a journalist.
The dismissal of the head of the Security Service, Leonid Derkach, and of
the chief of the presidential bodyguard, Volodymyr Shepel, have been seen as
an attempt at damage limitation.
Mr Kuchma has resisted demands to resign
A headless body, thought to be that of opposition internet journalist
Georgiy Gongadze, known for his criticism of the government, was discovered
near Kiev in November two months after he went missing.
Mr Kuchma's office was bugged by bodyguard Mykola Melnichenko and the tapes,
made public by opposition Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz, have
sparked anti-Kuchma demonstrations across Ukraine and led to a mass protest
in Kiev.
Tape edited
Mr Melnichenko said the recordings showed Mr Kuchma had ordered the removal
of the journalist.
Mr Kuchma acknowleged that it was his voice on the tape but has claimed that
it had been edited to change what he said.
Commentators believe the president wants to show he is in control of matters
ahead of a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The opposition has organised anti-Kuchma protests
The Interfax news agency said Mr Kuchma announced the decision at a meeting
of his National Security and Defence Council on Saturday.
Despite the widespread protests, reports on Ukrainian television have said
there are no plans for a state of emergency.
Demonstrators had demanded Mr Derkach be sacked, but they are unlikely to be
satisfied with his replacement, Volodymyr Radchenko, whose background is in
the Soviet KGB, and who headed the Security Service before Mr Derkach.
Protesters demands
The sackings could spur the protesters on to press harder for their ultimate
aim - the removal of Mr Kuchma, and a full investigation into the
circumstances surrounding Mr Gongadze's death.
Mr Shepel will be replaced by Valeriy Strogov, currently the Interior
Ministry chief in the western Lviv region, Interfax said.
Mr Putin, who is due to meet with Mr Kuchma on Sunday and Monday in southern
Ukraine, said developments were signs of an "internal political struggle".
"This is a sign of normal democratic society," Mr Putin said in an interview
with Ukrainian journalists ahead of his visit.
"As simply a citizen and not the president of Russia, I think all this is
not bad, but all such processes must be in the framework of the law."
2001.02.11 | Broker
BBC World: Ukraine President Defies Calls to Quit
February 10, 2001Ukraine President Defies Calls to Quit
President Kuchma is looking increasingly embattled
Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma has hit back at opposition moves to remove him from office saying they "threatened national security".
Mr Kuchma was responding to a rare show of unity between opposition parties who say they intend to set up a Forum for National Salvation and organise further "Ukraine without Kuchma" street protests.
The opposition has organised anti-Kuchma street marches
The crisis in Ukraine began last year when Mr Kuchma was implicated in the disappearance of an investigative journalist, which the opposition says is part of a wider effort by the authorities to supress free speech.
His remarks came only hours after a leading Ukrainian independent television station said it was under systematic political pressure from the security services to conform to the government's agenda.
Levko Lukyanenko, a former dissident who spent 20 years in Soviet prisons, said the forum was being set up to "speed up the liberation of society from this corrupt regime."
Economic warning
Mr Kuchma responded by saying the Forum would damage Ukraine economically.
"We must understand today that psychological and information war is much worse than the conventional type
President Kuchma
He warned: "If strategic investors and serious foreign companies do not come to Ukraine to take part in privatisations - the results will be fairly obvious."
President Kuchma also attacked the foreign media for spreading what he described as "fairy tales" about his country.
The crisis began with the disappearance of journalist Georgiy Gongadze last year. Relatives say a decapitated corpse found outside Kiev last November is Gongadze's body.
An opposition politician has published tapes of a voice similar to President Kuchma's saying he wanted to be rid of the reporter.
Kuchma defiant
Mr Kuchma, a former Soviet rocket factory director who was re-elected for a five-year term in 1999, denies involvement and has so far shown little sign of relinquishing his grip on power.
State officials regularly interfering in coverage of political events
1+1 Television
Thousands have marched through major cities calling for his resignation and guarantees of free speech. Gongadze's supporters accuse authorities of trying to cover up his murder.
Ukraine's 1+1 television station, which has alternated between support and criticism of Mr Kuchma and the authorities has joined leading European democracy and human rights groups in saying free speech was under attack.
"Not only are state officials regularly interfering in coverage of political events, they are using their status to settle personal accounts with the independent media," read a statement from the station.