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From Disgraced President to Ukraine’s Lead Diplomat: The Unlikely Redemption of Leonid Kuchma


On September 8, 2015, former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma arrived in Minsk. He travelled to the Belarusian capital, as Ukraine’s representative to the Trilateral Contact Group that seeks to end the conflict in Donbas. At the summit that followed, Kuchma called for the withdrawal of heavy artillery from Eastern Ukraine, and urged the UN to send a peacekeeping force to war-torn Donbas territories. Kuchma’s prominent stature as a diplomat, more than ten years after his ignominious handover of power to Viktor Yushchenko, has intrigued and confounded Ukraine experts. His political rehabilitation also makes for a dramatic redemption story. Kuchma …read more

Source: The Huffington Post

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