Presidential elections

Mikhail Doroshenko, center, the head of the press-center of the Leonid Kuchma's central public election headquarters and his deputies: national deputy Dmitry Tabachnik, to the left, and academician Ivan Kuras helds the first headquarters' press-conference in Kyiv (August 27, 1999). "The Election Program of Leonid Kuchma, the candidate for President of Ukraine essentially differs from the programs of the other candidates, first of all, by the fact, that it is the program of acting President, - marked Mikhail Doroshenko on the press-conference. - The program has the report part, where everything what had been done during the 5 years of Kuchma's presidency, and his vision of the perspectives on the key-directions. Photo by Vladimir Makukh/ UNIAN