ELECTION WATCH

Quotable notes

"I would like to ask the president at whose cost he is shown [on television] 20 to 30 times every day."

- Oleksander Moroz, national deputy and presidential candidate, responding to President Leonid Kuchma's statement that the state should not spend taxpayers' money on broadcasting parliamentary sessions, as reported by Interfax, September 29 (quoted by RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report)

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"I am not going to run for the presidency for a second term to become somebody's vassal."

- President Leonid Kuchma on the idea of creating a union of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, quoted by ITAR-TASS on July 17 (as reported by RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report).

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, October 17, 1999, No. 42, Vol. LXVII

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