9/20/2004


I also stumbled accross a political rally on Saturday evening. Ukrainian presidential elections are at the end of October. The rally pictured above is for the opposition candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, and was held at the "Europe Square" end of Kreshatik. Yushenko is the opposition candidate in the sense that he is running against a guy who is a member of the current president's party. In a mildly surprising move, Ukraine's current president, Leonid Kuchma, didn't find a way to "run" for re-election and will actually be stepping down at the end of his second term, in accordance with the constitution. The building in the picture used to be a Lenin museum. It's now called "Ukraine House." Posted by Hello