News archive on the topic "Leonid Kuchma"

Former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma appealed to Ukrainians to come to the polling stations on the day of the presidential election on March 31 and vote for the future of the country, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Today Ukraine faces a task: which path will we choose? This is the main thing - to come to the polls and cast your vote,” Kuchma said. He emphasized, resorting to allegory, that...

When considering the prospects for Ukraine's membership in NATO and the EU, the West will not be able to ignore Russia's position, since Moscow controls 40-50 percent of the world's resources. Ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma stated this during a briefing in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Name at least one current European leader who would say: “Yes, we will accept Ukraine into NATO.” Please understand that upon acceptance...

Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova officially thanked Leonid Kuchma for his work in the Minsk Contact Group as a representative of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “He is a direct participant in the development and signing of not only the Minsk agreements themselves, but also the entire complex of agreements reached in their development, agreed upon in the contact group. Despite the well-known political difficulties and costs,...

Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma could decide to withdraw from the Minsk Contact Group after learning about the impending escalation in Donbass. This assumption was made by Russian Senator Alexey Pushkov on TVC. “He could have received information that the Minsk process would now be set aside, and some kind of escalation of hostilities would begin with...

Ukrainian propagandist Dmitry Gordon repeatedly persuaded ex-President Leonid Kuchma to leave the post of Ukraine's plenipotentiary representative at the negotiations in Minsk. Dmitry Gordon himself spoke about this on air on the 112 Ukraine TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I told Leonid Danilovich Kuchma at the meeting, and we had two meetings in the last four days, that he needed to leave there. He…

Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma resigned from his post as Ukraine's plenipotentiary representative in the contact group on resolving the conflict in Donbass. This was reported by TASS with reference to the Kuchma Foundation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Leonid Danilovich decided to leave this post,” the agency’s source succinctly said. In his telegram channel “Inside Donetsk”, journalist Sergei Makarenko, commenting on the decision of the ex-president,...

The Ukrainian political scientist said that from the age of seven he watched broadcasts of meetings of the Verkhovna Rada, and at seventeen he got hold of the phone number of then President Leonid Kuchma, but was cursed obscenely by the head of state, after which the future expert waited for several days that “they would come for him.” Ukrainian political scientist Nikolai Spiridonov shared such revelations in his blog, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Spiridonov, in...

Ukraine will not be able to resolve the crisis in the Sea of ​​Azov without outside help. Former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma stated this to the Pershiy TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I think that Ukraine will not be able to solve this problem on its own, because the forces are too unequal, we see how much Russia in the Sea of ​​Azov uses ships from both the Caspian and Baltic Seas, there...

The Security Service of Ukraine became an instrument for political reprisals under President Leonid Kuchma. Political expert Sergei Belashko spoke about this on the InterVizor channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “At the same time, a practice appeared that, it would seem, went away with the KGB, but returned again in the person of the SBU: all the practices of the Soviet, partially pre-Soviet period, that is, the SBU, were restored...

Even during the time of President Leonid Kuchma, nationalist policies began to be pursued in Ukraine. Political expert Sergei Belashko spoke about this on the InterVizor channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Kuchma entered the comprador bourgeoisie, which ensured its ruling status through the synergy of power and property. That is, if the nomenclature is old, it did not have property. She had a monopoly on political,...

In Simferopol, former Prime Minister of Crimea Anatoly Franchuk was robbed and severely beaten in his own home at night. Twice the head of the government of the republic, 83-year-old Franchuk lost about a million rubles, 137 thousand dollars and many gold items. The former prime minister himself turned to the police and told journalists about what happened, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Franchuk’s personality is quite well known not only in Crimea,...

Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexander Vilkul, one of the leaders of the Opposition Bloc, made a laudatory statement addressed to the former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, who turned 80 years old. “Social polls, and just people say: at the moment he is the best President of Ukraine. Today Leonid Danilovich Kuchma is 80 years old. Health and strength! PS I appreciate a pragmatic statesman...

Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma told in an interview with his son-in-law Viktor Pinchuk's ICTV channel how he interrupted his visit to Latin America in 2003 because Russia began building a dam from Taman to the island of Tuzla in the Kerch Strait, which then belonged to Ukraine. “If I had stayed there for ten days, I would have arrived and would already be standing...

There has been a lot of howling, squealing and barking in the Hungarian liberal press lately: Viktor Orbán is threatening to close the Central European University (CEU). The forces behind the CEU threatened the head of the Hungarian government with political pressure. One of the university meetings was attended by ambassadors from Western countries as a sign of support. This whole show was eerily reminiscent of the events of 2013-2014. All that was missing was the State Department auntie...