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reporter. The situation in Ukraine became
acute. Opposition forces organized an action
“Ukraine without Kuchma”.
April, Resignation of V. Yushchenko’s
2001 government. Aggravation of political
situation in Ukraine. Some factions of the
Supreme Council (“Trudova Ukrayina”, the
SDPU (u), the PDP, the CPU) initiated
resignation of V. Yushchenko’s government.
May, A. Kinakh was assigned the Prime Minister
2001 of Ukraine.
March, 31 Elections to the Supreme Council of
2002 Ukraine. The characteristic feature of 2002
elections was the formation of powerful party
blocs. The bloc “For unitary Ukraine”
included centrist parties (the PDP, the Party
of Regions, the Party of industrialists and
businessmen, the Agrarian Party of Ukraine,
“Trudova Ukrayina” with V. Lytvyn as its
leader). The bloc “Our Ukraine” included
right parties (the Rukh, UPP, “Reforms and
Order”, “Ukraine, go ahead” and other). Y.
Tymoshenko’s bloc (BYT) incorporated all-
Ukrainian union “Motherland”, Ukrainian
People’s Party “Sobor”, URP).
69.6% of voters participated in the elections.
27 parties and electoral blocs crossed the 4%
margin in multicandidate voting district
(among them, N. Vitrenko’s bloc with 3.22%
and UNA with 0.04%).
By multicandidate voting district the
following parties were included in the
Parliament: “Our Ukraine” (23.5%) – 70

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