Call for Kuchma to resign

Kiev - Several thousand Ukrainians marched through the capital Kiev yesterday, calling for President Leonid Kuchma to resign …

Kiev - Several thousand Ukrainians marched through the capital Kiev yesterday, calling for President Leonid Kuchma to resign in a scandal over the apparent murder of a journalist. The protest was the latest in a series of demonstrations started by the disappearance of journalist Georgiy Gongadze last year but it failed to attract the 20,000 people organisers had predicted.

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