Why does President Yushchenko have so few supporters in eastern Ukraine?

 08.07.2008 05:37   day.kiev.ua

President Viktor Yushchenko has undertaken the extremely complicated task of trying to obtain international recognition for the Holodomor of 1932-33 as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people and immortalizing the memory of its victims. During the presidency of his predecessor Leonid Kuchma, the Holodomor was quietly broached once a year. These days President Yushchenko talks about it on an almost daily basis.

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