Stepan Havrysh, who is the authorized representative of presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych in the Central Electoral Commission,
And the reason I posted:
To have himself sworn-in when the final results have yet to be announced tells me Yushchenko’s backers are too anxious and that perhaps the August press release is unfortunately accurate.
In other words although Havrysh is in Yankovych’s camp Yushchenko’s actions now seem to lend credibility to the Havrysh release.
As far back as August 27, 2004 Yuschenko’s campaign team was supposedly preparing to declare the presidential election invalid if Yanukovych won. This really bothers me. http://www.ukrnow.com/content/view/495/
By having himself sworn in Yuschenko declared the presidential election invalid before the results are even known. His actions really play into the release even though it was from Havrysh.
All of them have less info in English and this is a problem.
According to the University students I am currently chatting with out of 15 tv channels in Ukraine all but one are hard core government propaganda. Just recently they said now two are pretty good as one defected from the Kuchma thugs because public opinion is that winning ( getting out from under Kuchmas thumb )is possible.
They said there are reports of special forces from Russia already being in Kiev. When I asked if they believed it they said fifty fifty chance and there is no way to tell as they would be dressed like local riot cops. They said that they do not think the local cops are going to turn against the protesters. So if Moscow wants to intervene with some rough stuff they will have to use outside forces.