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Cheating
the voters, voter cheating technology
AGENTS
OF INFLUENCE
Committee
of voters of Ukraine (CVU) successfully masters the American taxpayers
money.
This
publication resulted from a statement by the press service of the CVU
“regarding news coverage on the Ukrainian National Television News
Channel (UTN) dated January, 23, 2002.
IN BRIF
According to CVU UTN described negatively their activities more informed
about CVU΄s malfunctioning. UTN was interested in the level of
influence of the “ monitoring of the social – political situation in
Ukraine “, the later, as known, has been generously funded by donor
representatives of foreign countries.
This “quiet fighting” between a state-owner channel (to be read as a
loud-speaker from “ Bankova Street”) and an “independent
non-government non-profit organization” (those are often referred to as imitators) has, probably, remained unnoticed for
the majority of voters, if not for a surprising coincidence of several
events.
EVENTS
January 15, 2002 Petro Symonenko, First Secretary of the Communist Party
of Ukraine (CPU), demanded that Mychaylo Ryabets is dismissed from the
post of the CEC Head and that US Ambassador in Ukraine Carlos Pascual is
announced “persona non grata”. This demand was a reaction to earlier
agreement upcoming election-relates assistance to Ukraine signed by US
representatives and CEC Head Mychaylo Ryabets.
According to Petro Symonenko, this document foresees a 2 mln.
worth“ propaganda materials” from the US to ensure fair elections in
Ukraine”.
January 27, 2002 US Ambassador in
Ukraine Carlos Pascual and former US Ambassador in Ukraine Steven Pifer
published an article analyze the situation in Ukraine and advising on
further developments.
January 31. B. Boyko, leader of the Popular Rukh of Ukraine declared
their intention to appeal to address the General Prosecutor-s Office
pledging to verify financial activities of NDI institute in Ukraine. NDI
National Democratic institute) non-profit organization, one of the
USAID’s contractors. It is through NDI that USAID provides political
consulting and grants to Russia, Ukraine and other NIS countries aimed at
fostering democratic reforms. NDI is a major donor providing grants to CVU.
February 5-6 Paula Dobriansky, US under secretary of state for global
affairs arrives in Kiev with “inspection” (officially – “to
familiarize with pre-election situation). She had meeting planned with
state leaders, CEC representation, leaders of Ukrainian television
channels and political civic organizations. Her meeting with state CVU
representatives took place before the meeting with Ukrainian high –
level officials. One can only guess how CVU’s Chairman Igor Popov
described pre-election situation to representative of the Department of
state. Igor Dolgov representative of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Ukraine sounded more optimistic when “said that Kiev does not feel
pressure from Paula Dobriansky visit”.
After comparing these facts an assumption can be mode that all this fuss
and noise in pre-election situation and grew out of desire “point to a
right place” various western funds their “pocket groups in Ukraine”
in order not disturb Ukrainian electoral field “well shared by tapes
scandals”. It is clear that key players in “monitoring the
social-political situation in Ukraine” which is being carried out by the
“Committee of voters“ will be pro-presidential “Za EDU” (For
United Ukraine) “Zhinky za majbutne” (Women for the Future), and
oligarchic SDPU (Social-Democratic Party United), DemSoiuz (Democratic
Union) and Dem PU (Democratic Party of Ukraine).
The most interesting just starts here. Facts of the so-called
“elections fraud by the political subjects, that are described in
“monitoring” might as a grounds for further recommendation from the
Department of state to the western investors to avoid cooperation with
businesses that support certain political forces.
A classical case is presented – when a civic organization with the help
of “voluntary” financial
injection from American funds opposes the state oligarchic system
struggles for the democratic society values. It unites dozen of thousands
of
volunteer observers, interprets, the tricky points of the election law and
catches those hot perform violations. And all this is done voluntary
basic!
For ordinary taxpayers in the West these people are heroes that oppose
the administrative resource. For western foundations this is an
opposability to receive large budgets programmed to support the activities
of organization similar CVU, mainly them (the current US anti-monopoly
laws not be covering grants to Ukrainian organization). Although there are
facts that CVU’s “natural” monopoly on grants was destroyed by the
IRF (Soros Foundation in Ukraine) which
became difficult in deciding “into gets the first night with bride” in
receiving grants for election-relates activates.
HEROES
The Committee of Voter of Ukraine (CVU) was founded in early 1994.
It’s main activity is to deploy volunteers for election
monitoring. CVU’s major
achievement was in recruiting 18,000 observers to be placed in 295
election districts during March 1998 Parliamentary elections. This record results not from a declared number of election
monitors, rather from their effectiveness - none (!) of the facts of the
presumably found election fraud has been developed further; for example,
election results were never recalled.
The only pleasant exception in CVU’s “monitoring efforts” was
denouncing the voting results in a “scandalous” district#221 in Kiev
in 1998. Yuriy Orobets ran
his campaign several times unsuccessfully in this district; and CVU was
actively publicizing their unbiased involvement in observing the fairness
of the voting procedure. This
district was noticeable for an opponent of Orobets -A. Alioshin who was
then supported by an oligarch Rabinovich.
Based on CVU’s opinion, this district was overwhelmed with
violations, and the Committee of Voters discovered them all.
These past events could have been “burred” in CVU’s list of
successful activities if not for a statement by Yuriy Orobets aired by the
Era Television Company in which Igor Popov was answering Sergiy Naboka’s
questions about CVU activities. Yuriy Orobets called the studio during a live coverage and
accused CVU in malfunctioning and in “wasting” American money.
His arguments were based on the fact that when he sked CVU for
information about violations, it was not provided to him and he lost his
campaign at the end. Igor
Popov responded to this that he doesn’t like the voice of Orobets and
that he will not respond to these questions.
WHO IS HE-THE LAST HERO?
CVU’s current Board Chairman Igor Popov became its leader in 1996.
Based on one witness version, a young guy who was then a retail
market vendor in the neighborhood Poland suddenly got interested in
Ukraine’s social-political life and felt the necessity in assisting the
Non-Partisan Committee of Voters (the old name for CVU).
In 1994 he was appointed as CVU’s regional coordinator in
Chernigiv oblast. Later on,
through manipulations with “”underwater currents” in the Ukrainian
youth movement which resulted in contradictions between members of the
Union of Ukrainian Students (SUS) - CVU’s backbone - he became CVU’s
chairman. Unofficial sources
say that his real motives behind getting involved in the student youth
movement was in trying to escape from a regular military service.
The new chairman first contributed an ideology in the Committee’s
function that was accepted by its founders; the gust of it was a
commercial approach at a market business level.
Over a couple of years CVU’s real office moves from a temporary
rented apartment, and it’s not even a half of building, but it is now a
fancy office space located in the administrative building of one f
Kiev’s factories (director’s daughter is one of CVU’s staff
members). CVU now owns its
personal means of transportation - 8 jeep-type cars “Taiga” and a
Mercedes micro van! It’s
hard to believe that all this money of $200,000 was provided by a
well-known private American foundation called the Mott Foundation for the
purpose of conducting an educational campaign on the Land Code in the
regions. In reality Ukrainian
people managed to understand what to do with land without an additional
educational campaign. An
example could be found in the article of the “Rivne
Vechirnie” (Evening Rivne) newspaper.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Igor
Popov – CVU Chairman