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Kuchma about his presidency: There were two important things that I underestimated
KYIV. Aug 26 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The second President of Ukraine (1994 – 2005) Leonid Kuchma named two important points that he underestimated during his tenure as head of state.
"If we take not specific deeds and decisions, but a more general, strategic plan, then there were two important things that I underestimated. The first is the stuffing of our political elite with the remnants of Moscow agents – both direct ‘KGB members’ and agents of influence … The second is the potential Ukrainian civil society. It has been ahead of the government for a long time, proving this in the most acute moments of modern history, but for the first time I felt this maturity and this energy during the days of the Maidan," Kuchma said in an interview with the Ukrayinska Pravda ezine.
