Leonid Kuchma

Ukrainian girls, weared in the national cotumes, meet Ukraine's president Leonid Kuchma with a traditional bread and salt at an airport site of the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, on Thursday, November 11, 1999. Leonid Kuchma arrived in the Donetsk region on Thursday for his three-days pre-election campaign trip for the Sunday Nov.14 second round of the presdiential vote. Although incubment Leonid Kuchma has an edge over his hard-line opponnt Petro Symonenko, a low turnout in the runoff presidential vote this weekend might bring the Communist canidate to power. UNIAN photo