Quotable notes

"I have visited all of you and seen that the current authorities are in their death throes. However, you cannot see this on television. Television channels are switched off and newspapers are shut down for a single word of truth. The television screen has become a distorting mirror. We cannot recognize ourselves or our country on it. This lying information has set our teeth on edge. But we cannot be fooled. The authorities fear to look the truth in the face. The authorities fear us, and not without good reason. The bandits in power understand: The [presidential] elections will be a verdict passed on the authorities by the people. Bandits will go to jail!"

- Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko at a rally of some 70,000 in Kyiv on September 18, as quoted by the Ukrainska Pravda website and cited by RFE/RL Belarus and Ukraine Report.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, October 3, 2004, No. 40, Vol. LXXII

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