Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, left, shakes hands with French actor Gerard Depardieu during their meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, March 19, 2004. Depardieu arrived in Kiev Friday on the invitation of Kuchma's wife Liudmila, who chairs the Ukraine for Children Fund, to open cultural program "French artists for Ukraine's children". Photo by Valery Solovyov / presidential press-service / UNIAN