Delegate of the XI National Rukh of Ukraine Congress

Delegate of the XI National Rukh of Ukraine Congress, holding Vyacheslav Chornovil’s Portrait conducts debate with the other delegates before the Congress, on Saturday, May 5, 2001 in Kyiv. On May 5 in the Kyiv’s Polytechnic Institute’s Palace of Culture the XI NRU congress was opened. There the 2 years of party work will be resumed and the new leadership will be elected. The above-mentioned building was picketed by some 20 National Rukh’s members, requiring to elect Mikhail Kosiv for the new NRU leader. People’s Deputy Taras Chornovil marked that today party divided in two parts, concerning the power system. «Roughly speaking, there exist both pro-President and anti-President positions in the party» - he declared. The NRU leadership should preserve the party influence and development. That’s why, according to him, the key problem is not should Udovenko remain the leader but that he has lost real control over the party. Photo by Alexander Sinitsa/ UNIAN