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09/24/2002 | Mykyta
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Okremo pro kil'kist' demonstrantiv mynulogo tyzhnya(dyv. nyzhche):
Last week's
demonstration was
joined by about
55,000 people
across the country
Ukraine protesters out in
force
State TV station had to cancel the evening
news
Thousands of opposition supporters have
gathered in the Ukrainian capital,
Kiev, for the second demonstration in
just over a week calling for President
Leonid Kuchma's resignation.
The protest comes after the invasion of
state TV studios on Monday night, by a
group of opposition leaders and their
supporters, which forced the
cancellation of the main evening news.
Speaking at
Tuesday's
demonstration
outside parliament,
one of the
opposition leaders,
Yulia Tymoshenko,
called for
President Kuchma to
be impeached.
The several
thousand protesters
chanted "Ukraine
without Kuchma" and
carried banners
calling for the country's political
"oligarchs" to be imprisoned.
Last week's demonstration marked the
second anniversary of the disappearance
of an opposition journalist, Georgiy
Gongadze, whose headless body was later
found in woods north of Kiev.
The opposition accuses President Kuchma
- who is almost three years into his
second five-year term - of corruption
and complicity in Gongadze's killing.
He denies the allegations.
Protests
After the invasion of the TV station,
Ukrainian National TV said it would
give air time on Tuesday to three
deputies who forced their way into the
studio.
Police were heavily
guarding the
station's
headquarters to
prevent opposition
supporters getting
in again.
Last week's
demonstration was
joined by about
55,000 people
across the country,
making it the
largest in the
country's
post-Soviet history.
On the day of the protest, 17
September, state and private television
channels were pulled off the air until
mid-afternoon for what officials said
was routine maintenance.
The timing was widely interpreted as a
ruse to prevent tv coverage of the
demonstration.
Mr Kuchma was re-elected in November
1999 to a second five-year term and has
since seen his poll ratings plunge.
One poll last week suggested that 70%
of the population would like him to
step down.
Okremo pro kil'kist' demonstrantiv mynulogo tyzhnya(dyv. nyzhche):
Last week's
demonstration was
joined by about
55,000 people
across the country
Ukraine protesters out in
force
State TV station had to cancel the evening
news
Thousands of opposition supporters have
gathered in the Ukrainian capital,
Kiev, for the second demonstration in
just over a week calling for President
Leonid Kuchma's resignation.
The protest comes after the invasion of
state TV studios on Monday night, by a
group of opposition leaders and their
supporters, which forced the
cancellation of the main evening news.
Speaking at
Tuesday's
demonstration
outside parliament,
one of the
opposition leaders,
Yulia Tymoshenko,
called for
President Kuchma to
be impeached.
The several
thousand protesters
chanted "Ukraine
without Kuchma" and
carried banners
calling for the country's political
"oligarchs" to be imprisoned.
Last week's demonstration marked the
second anniversary of the disappearance
of an opposition journalist, Georgiy
Gongadze, whose headless body was later
found in woods north of Kiev.
The opposition accuses President Kuchma
- who is almost three years into his
second five-year term - of corruption
and complicity in Gongadze's killing.
He denies the allegations.
Protests
After the invasion of the TV station,
Ukrainian National TV said it would
give air time on Tuesday to three
deputies who forced their way into the
studio.
Police were heavily
guarding the
station's
headquarters to
prevent opposition
supporters getting
in again.
Last week's
demonstration was
joined by about
55,000 people
across the country,
making it the
largest in the
country's
post-Soviet history.
On the day of the protest, 17
September, state and private television
channels were pulled off the air until
mid-afternoon for what officials said
was routine maintenance.
The timing was widely interpreted as a
ruse to prevent tv coverage of the
demonstration.
Mr Kuchma was re-elected in November
1999 to a second five-year term and has
since seen his poll ratings plunge.
One poll last week suggested that 70%
of the population would like him to
step down.