Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 October 1999, with a second round on 14 November. The result was a victory for Leonid Kuchma, who defeated Petro Symonenko in the run-off, winning a s
Leonid Kuchma in 1999
Pavlo Lazarenko, a competitor to Kuchma, fled Ukraine and was arrested on money laundering charges before the 1999 election
Viacheslav Chornovil, a competitor to Kuchma from the centre-right, was killed in a March 1999 traffic collision under disputed circumstances
Leonid Kuchma (right) with former Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, August 1999
Leonid Kuchma
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Leonid Danylovych Kuchma is a Ukrainian politician who served as the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. The only president of Ukraine to serve two terms, his presidency
1999 Ukrainian presidential election
…Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 October 1999, with a second round on 14 November. The result was a victory for Leonid Kuchma, who defeated Petro Symonenko in the run-off, winning a second consecutive presidential election. Kuchma, who had been elected on a leftist programme…
Kuchma in 2019
Kuchma with Leonid Kravchuk in 2014. Kravchuk was Kuchma's predecessor as president and rival in the 1994 Ukrainian presidential election.
5 hryvnia banknote introduced in 1996
Kuchma and foreign minister Hennadiy Udovenko (4th from the right) during a meeting with members of the European Commission in 1995