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
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
Viktor Andriiovych Yushchenko is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010. He aimed to orient Ukraine towards the West, European Union, th
Leonid Kuchma
…public protests over the alleged electoral fraud which escalated into the Orange Revolution, Kuchma took a neutral stance and was a mediator between Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych. Between 2014 and 2020, Kuchma was a special presidential representative of Ukraine at the quasi peace talks regarding the war…
Yushchenko as prime minister visiting Poland in 2000
Yushchenko with fellow opposition leader Oleksandr Moroz during the Orange Revolution, 2004
Pro-Orange Revolution demonstration in Brussels, Belgium