Post-Election Blues in Ukraine

Issue Date October 2002
Volume 13
Issue 4
Page Numbers 157-166
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In March 2002, three-fifths of Ukraine’s voters chose a party or coalition opposed to the overbearing presidential apparatus of Leonid Kuchma, but the antipresidential forces found themselves frozen out in the new parliament.

About the Authors

Nadia Diuk

Nadia Diuk is director for Central Europe and Eurasia at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C.

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Myroslava Gongadze

Myroslava Gongadze was a 2001-2002 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington, D.C., and is currently a visiting scholar at George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies.

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