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Leonid Kuchma

The second president of Ukraine

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    Born 1938
  • Known for
    Ivan Marchuk: "The voi…
    1998
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Updated 2026-09-07

Ukraine's only two-term president presided over economic recovery and tighter ties with Russia while his administration censored media, arrested journalists, and was engulfed by the Cassette Scandal after the death of Georgiy Gongadze—a trajectory that ended with him mediating the Orange Revolution against his own chosen successor.

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Born 9 August 1938, Kuchma rose through the Soviet machine-building industry before entering politics in 1990 as a member of the Verkhovna Rada. He served as Prime Minister from October 1992 to September 1993, then defeated incumbent Leonid Kravchuk in the 1994 presidential election. Corruption accelerated under his watch, and in 1999 his administration launched a campaign of media censorship that led to journalist arrests and the death of Georgiy Gongadze, triggering the Cassette Scandal and mass protests. The economy declined until 1999, then recorded growth from 2000 onward, bringing relati…

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Leonid Kuchma
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Ukraine has become a democratic State with a policy aimed at ensuring the needs and rights of its citizens, and at establishing a civil society.
— Speech at the 52nd session of the United Nations General Assembly (excerpts) (1997)
Leonid Kuchma
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Ukraine has consistently conducted, and is determined to continue, a policy aimed at strengthening security and stability throughout the world.
— Speech at the 52nd session of the United Nations General Assembly (excerpts) (1997)
Leonid Kuchma
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The future of the world order, of the United Nations and of every country, is our common future.
— Speech at the 52nd session of the United Nations General Assembly (excerpts) (1997)
Leonid Kuchma
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My pride is for the wisdom and far-sightedness of the founders of the United Nations, who actually laid the foundation of a new world order.
— Speech at the 50th session of the United Nations General Assembly (excerpts) (1995)
Leonid Kuchma
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The disappearance of a world divided into antagonistic systems is related to profound internal transformations in post-socialist countries.
— Speech at the 50th session of the United Nations General Assembly (excerpts) (1995)
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Source confidence65.0
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