In Ukraine raves the wave of protest actions against the criminal rule of Leonid Kuchma. The parties of not only leftish, rightish and centrist orientation, but also NGOs and different walks of population take part in them.
Opposition demands radical political, economic, and social changes.
However, in spite on power s protestation, of the widely advertised course of reforms, no changes for better have come to pass. On the contrary, more and more people is dipping into squalor, the real family income is decreasing, unemployment grows. These are not the difficulties of the transitive period, and particularly growth, this is the result of bankrupt policy of the regime and personally the president, involved in only one kind of activity stuffing his own pockets and those of oligarchs. The workers rightfully protest against union of the regime, in particular, law enforcement bodies with criminal structures, against reinforcement of corruption in the state apparatus and in the height of power. The graphic example of criminality and tyranny reinforcement became oppression of freedom of expression and murder of the journalist Heorgy Gongadze, the participation in which can be by grounds suspected the country s authority.