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Baba Yaga · Erstellt: 26.12.04, 17:42 Betreff: Wer oder was ist PORA?

Hier das Kozept und die Selbstvorstellung dieser Organisation:

CONCEPT
OF NATIONAL INFORMATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL AND MOBILIZATION CAMPAIGN
(Full version)

Title: National mobilization and informational Campaign “Pora”;

Target group: citizens of Ukraine that have the right to participate in the Presidential elections of Ukraine in 2004;

Participants: youth, in particular active students, organized into mobile groups and united in a countrywide, efficiently coordinated network;

Number of participants: no less than 9,000 volunteers (registered members of mobile groups);
Campaign’s aim: to provide conditions for definitive affirmation of democratic priorities in the development of Ukrainian society, realization of complex reforms, formation of transparent power structures in Ukraine, as well as realization of its Euro-Atlantic choice during the Presidential elections of Ukraine in 2004.

Tasks:
- To come up with alternative mechanisms for delivering objective information and candidates’ positions directly to citizens in all regions of Ukraine over the course of the electoral Campaign;
- To stir up participation of electoral groups supporting Euro-Atlantic integration ideas, national priorities, and democratic development (youth, intellectuals, etc.) during elections;

- To provide organizational conditions for active participation of those sympathetic to a European vector of development for Ukraine in informational and educational components of the electoral Campaign;

- To form a developed and powerful network of volunteers for effective promotion of national-democratic ideals during the electoral Campaign;

- To carry out broad and well-grounded promotion of European and national-democratic ideas (slogans) to attract a substantial part of neutral or poorly-informed citizens towards progressive forces in society;

- To create a mechanism for efficient preparation of informational and educational materials pertaining to the socio-cultural and political specifics of the regions, and for their efficient distribution using the network formed in all regions of Ukraine;

- To mobilize society for the protection of their democratic rights and freedoms in case of falsification of election results or of other illegitimate actions of authorities.
Campaign’s status:
The Pora Campaign is independent from any political structure, commercial or governmental organizations. It is a self-governing nation-wide action, registered in the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. The implementation phase of the Campaign is supposed to last until the legitimacy of the elections has been confirmed by all subjects of the election process and by international organizations (OSCE, Council of Europe, etc.). Organizational and legal bases for the Campaign’s realization are provided by the Coordination Center of the Campaign that is a main structural department of the Campaign.

ANNOTATION
Slovak Republic 1998, Serbia 2000, Georgia 2003.. and Ukraine 2004. What is common between these countries? For a long period of time they were united only by the hard totalitarian heritage, but on the concluding stage of the post-Soviet development they have got a chance of implementing radical democratic reforms, and most of them have used this chance. The most actual remains the challenge if democratic choice for one of the largest European states – Ukraine. And the final answer to this challenge will be given by the forthcoming elections of President of Ukraine in 2004.
The weak regional structure of political parties brought about by the absence of independent local self-governing and the extremely strong vertical structure of executive power creates the unprecedented preconditions for manipulation of the course and results of future elections. These cautions are confirmed by experience from the previous election campaigns and by the unprecedented pressure on opposing political forces during the first months of 2004. Under such circumstances, a number of independent and ramified all-Ukrainian youth organizations, supported by the Freedom of Choice Coalition of Ukrainian NGOs, have decided to create a broad volunteer network for the implementation of a nation-wide informational and educational Campaign, aimed at securing the voter rights of citizens.
It is well known that Ukraine has a system of strict control over information and has practically no independent mass media, particularly in remote regions. The suggested initiative envisages the implementation of a complex nation-wide informational and educational Pora Campaign aimed at democratizing the upcoming Presidential elections of Ukraine in October 2004. Its task is the large-scale distribution of information on candidates’ programs, voters’ rights, course of the electoral Campaign directly to the voters, increasing their motivation to participate in the elections and promoting national and European values. The strategy and plan of the Campaign has been structured by analogy with successful activities of volunteer networks in Serbia (OTPOR, 2000), the Slovakian Republic (OK-98), and Georgia (Khmara, 2003). An international expert-advice group is supposed to be formed out of those projects’ technologists and leaders. The Campaign will be executed through a range of interrelated informational and educational events in all the localities of Ukraine.
PREAMBLE
Ukraine is the second-largest European country (603,7 thousand square km) with almost 50 million inhabitants and- highly educated population. During its almost 2000 years of history, the country many times was the epicenter of world events and geopolitical processes. As one of the most populated European nations, situated on the eastern border of Europe, Ukraine has always been a place where cultures and civilizations intersect.
At the beginning of the 20th century the territory of present-day Ukraine was mainly divided between the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires. Active influence of the latter on the political life of Ukrainian society contributed to the emergence of stable European traditions that retained their attributes even during Ukraine’s time as a member of the USSR. Beginning from the second half of the 20th century, Ukraine has been the third largest and second most populated USSR republic that possessed the most developed industry in the Soviet Union, had one of the largest contingents in: applied mathematics, development of artificial intelligence, atomic energy, exploration of space and the Antarctic, and geology and physics. The main branches of the Ukrainian economy were plane and rocket construction, shipbuilding, energy machine building, electronics, and ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy. Among republics of the former Soviet Union, Ukraine occupied leading positions in the social and cultural sphere, education, and development of medicine and arts. During eight Olympic games in which the Soviet Union participated, Ukrainian sportsmen won 150 gold medals. Ukrainians represented the majority of the inferior and medium-level officers and a significant part of generals within the military forces of the USSR. The third largest nuclear weapons arsenal in the world was situated on Ukrainian territory, but after the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine voluntarily got rid of it in 1994.
Moreover, Ukraine’s democratic traditions were demonstrated by the fact that under the totalitarian conditions of the Soviet system Ukraine became the greatest center for dissident resistance movements among former Soviet republics. Together with the Baltic states Ukraine acted as the most active initiator of democratization in Soviet society and in 1991 - as the initiator of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and of the creation of new independent states in its territory.
During the post-Soviet period Ukraine, unique among USSR countries, managed to avoid interethnic conflicts and civil wars. Over the last 12 years Ukrainian military contingents have carried out peacekeeping missions in more than 10 countries on three continents, among them Iraq, Serbia, Liberia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sierra Leone, and Congo. Ukrainian planes and ships provide transportation for NATO and UN troops in areas of peacekeeping and stabilization operations on three continents. Ukraine, together with Georgia, is a military, political, and economic leader of the regional GUAM grouping.
After a long period of economic depression, Ukraine has enjoyed one of the highest rates of economic development on the European continent in the new millennium. Furthermore, Ukraine possesses the best transit possibilities in Europe. In particular, it has advanced networks of oil, gas, and electric power transit in all directions. The capacity of Ukraine’s gas depositories and oil refineries has no equal in Europe. Ukraine is also a part of the Eurasian transport corridor that doesn’t cover Russia.
In 2002 Ukraine officially proclaimed its orientation towards Euro-Atlantic integration and EU- and NATO-membership. Taking into account its geopolitical location and human resources potential, Ukraine represents a key element of Euro-Atlantic security. The present-day geopolitical significance of Ukraine grows even more by the process of formation a new pattern of relations between the unstable East, totalitarian regimes in Russian and Belarus, Moldova and the expanded European Union.
Situation

Present-day socio-political development in Ukraine, despite some economic achievements, is characterized by authoritarianism and systematic oppression of basic rights and freedoms. After a decade of post-totalitarian transformation the Ukrainian society is losing trust in the former-communist nomenclature that still retains power in the country, but is unable to ensure its consolidation and to carry out conceptual reforms. Today Ukraine faces the fundamental challenge of making decisive choice on its social and geo-political priorities. The solution to this challenge can be obtained only through free and transparent elections.
The results of parliamentary elections in Ukraine in 2002 demonstrated that democratic ideals and pro-European policy enjoy increasing support from the population, but a wide range of political forces that support these ideals were considerably restricted in possibilities of communication with the electorate. Providing balanced and objective information on the positions of diverse political powers is an increasingly worsening problem. The absence of equal opportunities for freedom of choice and freedom of speech in Ukraine has already been the subject of numerous conclusions and resolutions by well known international organizations. Due to the absence of independent television and press, all of Ukraine’s media resources are concentrated in the hands of politically biased state authorities or other financial and political groups.
A short period of governing of the team of reformers in 2000 led to reduction of the shadow economy segment and contributed to formation of equal operating conditions not only for Russian, but also for Western companies in the Ukrainian market. During this period long-term debts on salaries and pensions were paid off, interests on the state’s external debt were paid timely, stability of the national currency was retained, and gold and exchange currency reserves of the country grew. Furthermore, Ukraine intensified Euro-Atlantic co-operation and adjusted business partner relations with Russia (in particular those regarding transit of energy resources). These accomplishments have awakened optimism in society and stimulated business and public activity. However, the fast achievements of reformers threatened the interests of financial-political clans, and after only one year of work the reformatory government was dismissed.
Presently the public sector of Ukraine is undergoing active qualitative changes. Ukrainian NGOs who directed their efforts towards the democratization of previous electoral campaigns have gained precious experience of mutual co-operation and realization of important informational, educational, and monitoring projects. Dozens of influential NGOs that possess considerable technical resources and qualified personal function throughout Ukraine using the active support of international funds and organizations. The political trials in the last years have led to the emergence of mass youth and student associations that form a powerful volunteer network of activists that actively promote democratic ideals. Also, Ukrainian NGOs can now use the positive experience of the activities of colleagues from Yugoslavia, Croatia, Slovakia, Georgia, and other countries of the region that successfully realized their potential in recent critical elections.
That is why the leaders of many Ukrainian NGOs think that before the future presidential elections in Ukraine they challenge a critical need and a unique opportunity to mobilize their common capacities for the final victory of democratic ideals, the speeding-up of Euro-Atlantic integration, and the realization of qualitative reforms. From the viewpoint of active centers of civil society, there are presently satisfactory intellectual, human, and organizational conditions for IMPLEMENTING A WIDE INFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN AND SECURING LEGITIMATE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN 2004.
This document demonstrates the primary tasks, approaches, and principles of the implementation of a complex informational and educational Campaign on the national scale. Realization of this technological plan must become a part of the strategy towards democratization of Ukrainian society, coordinated by different progressive groups. Successful implementation of the Campaign and a democratic victory in the Presidential elections of Ukraine in 2004 would exert crucial influence on the processes of political development in Ukraine and secure the irrevocability of its European choice.
Taking into account the unique internal political circumstances and important geopolitical processes on the European continent, the future Presidential elections of Ukraine will symbolically complete the post-Soviet stage of social transformation, and their results get crucial significance both for strategic prospects of Ukraine and for the system of European safety.
Important comments:
The idea of implementation of the Pora Campaign comes from philosophy and traditions of student national-democratic movement of late 80s – early 90s of the last century, that at the beginning of the new century were developed within the framework of the All-Ukrainian public resistance committee “For Truth”. Management of the Campaign, its analytic support and the development of informational and educational materials will be provided mostly by former activists of that movement. The Pora Campaign will retain the legacy and basic principles of the All-Ukrainian public resistance committee “For Truth” that emerged in the student milieu at the beginning of political crisis of 1999.
The Campaign will be realized in the framework of the clearly defined methodology and with high discipline of the execution.
All the informational and educational materials that will be distributed within the framework of the Campaign, will be formulated in the simple, easy understandable style and will satisfy the principles of:
- political correctness;
- objectivity;
- absence of direct appeals fro voting for a certain candidate.
Forms of activities within the framework Campaign:
Taking into account the extremely acute problems concerning access to information and "freedom of speech" in Ukraine, the idea of direct delivery of informational and educational materials to voters became the main task of the Campaign. Delivery of this information will be carried out in the form of the direct communication with voters, distribution of the printed and visual information materials.
The following means will be used for this purpose:
Shows of different kind;
Public actions;
Visual means of presentation (big boards, posters, “graffiti”, etc.)
Media presentation (videoads, interviews, etc.)
Printed products:
- leaflets;
- booklets;
- stickers;
- small souvenirs attributes.
Larger part of informational materials to distributed within the Campaign’s framework will be created by the information-analytical department of the Campaign’s Coordination Centre or by partner NGOs, which participate in the democratization of the electoral process (in particular by the member NGOs of the coalitions “Our Choice 2004” and “Freedom of Choice”).

Baba Yaga · Erstellt: 26.12.04, 18:08 Betreff: Re: Wer oder was ist PORA?

A boot from the pro-Western organisation 'Pora' stamps on its de-humanized opponents

Baba Yaga · Erstellt: 26.12.04, 21:03 Betreff: Re: Wer oder was ist PORA?

Ich denke, auch das, was die Anhänger von Janukowitsch zu berichten hatten, ist hoch interessant und läßt die vom Westen gouttierte Partei und PORA-Freunde um Juschtschenko nicht so strahlend aussehen, wie uns einzureden versucht wurde!

Baba Yaga

26. Dezember 2004, 17:39

Im Iwano-Frankowsk Gebiet wurden Beobachter von Janukowitsch zusammengeschlagen

Im Iwano-Frankowsk Gebiet wurden die Beobachter der Organisation „Für gerechte Wahlen“ überfallen. Das erklärte heute während einer Pressekonferenz das Mitglied der Organisation Aleksandr Krutow, meldet der Korrespondent von ForUm.

Laut seinen Angaben ereignete sich der Vorfall im Wahllokal Nr. 33 (Stadt Nadwirne), wo die Beobachter vom Wahllokal vertrieben wurden, als sie versuchten Übertretungen des Gesetzes auf Videokamera aufzuzeichnen.

Außerdem wurden die Beobachter von Wiktor Janukowitsch im Wahllokal Nr. 105 von Unbekannten überfallen und zusammengeschlagen. Auch im Wahllokal Nr. 110, Wahlbezirk Nr. 88, wurden die Wahlbeobachter von 10 unbekannten Personen überfallen

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26. Dezember 2004, 17:40

Im Rowno-Gebiet wird ohne Dokumente gewählt

In einem der Dörfer des Rowno-Gebietes wurde es den Wählern erlaubt ohne Vorweisung des Passes abzustimmen, da niemand die Dokumente mit sich hatte. Dieser Vorfall wurde vom Komitee der Wähler der Ukraine (KIU) im Dorf Iwantschizy des Zaretschensk-Bezirkes (Wahllokal Nr. 113, Wahlbezirk Nr. 158) bemerkt und fixiert.

Die Beobachter bemerkten, dass die Wähler ohne Dokumente wählten. Als sie, und die dort anwesenden Journalisten, die Mitglieder der lokalen Wahlkommission darauf hinwiesen, hörten sie darauf: „Wir haben doch auch früher ohne Dokumente abgestimmt – und alles war in Ordnung !“. Die lokale Wahlkommission traf die Entscheidung, „die Abstimmung ohne Dokumente zuzulassen“. In diesen Vorfall mischte sich jedoch die territorielle Wahlkommission des Wahlbezirkes Nr. 158 ein, und stellte die gesetzmäßige Ordnung der Stimmabgaben im Wahllokal wieder her, meldet „Korrespondent.net“.

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26. Dezember 2004, 17:57

In Iwano-frankower Kirchen wird für Juschenko agitiert und Janukowitsch-Anhänger eingeschüchtert

In den katholischen Kirchen des Iwano-Frankowsker Gebiets werden die Kirchengänger für die Wahl des Kandidaten Juschenko aufgerufen. Das erklärte heute während einer Pressekonferenz der Mitglied der internationalen Organisation der Wahlbeobachter „Für gerechte Wahlen“ Aleksandr Krutow.

Seinen Worten nach wurden in den Kirchen „Listen mit Verrätern“ ausgehängt – derjenigen, welche Janukowitsch unterstützt haben; außerdem beinhaltet das Schreiben Drohungen in Adresse der aufgeführten Personen.

Er bemerkte außerdem, das genau solche Vorfälle die Aufmerksamkeit der Wahlbeobachter von „Für gerechte Wahlen“ zum westlichen Region der Ukraine gelenkt haben. Fast alle Beobachter der Organisation befinden sich derzeit in den westlichen Gebieten, weil nirgends etwas ähnliches passiert. „Leider traten die Übertretungen, auf welche internationale Beobachter im ersten und zweiten Durchgang hinwiesen, auch dieses Mal. Und sie fanden, leider, eine noch breitere Verbreitung“, - erklärte Krutow.

Ein weiterer Mitglied der Organisation „Für gerechte Wahlen“ Aleksandr Trepow teilte mit, dass im Zentrum von Ternopol überall „kämpferische Flugblätter der Organisation „Tryzub“ („Dreizack“, Wappenzeichen der Ukraine) ausgehängt sind, welche Drohungen an die Anhänger von Wiktor Janukowitsch beinhalten.

Trepow unterstrich außerdem, dass das Personal des Hotels „Kiew“, wo die meisten Wahlbeobachter der Organisation „Für gerechte Wahlen“ sich einquartiert haben, heute während 1,5 Stunden Lieder in Unterstützung von Juschenko abspielten.

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26. Dezember 2004, 19:32

Aleksandrow-Bezirk: Beobachter von Juschenko sabotieren die Wahl.

Beobachter von Juschenko verlassen massenweise die Wahllokale, um die Protokolle nicht zu unterschreiben und somit die Resultate der Abstimmung zu sabotieren. Ein ähnlicher Vorfall wurde im 58er Wahlbezirk, im Dorf Zolotyje prudy fixiert.

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26. Dezember 2004, 20:19

Der sogenannte „Nationale Exit-Poll“ gibt Juschenko 56,5 %

Laut Angaben des Nationalen Exit-Polls stimmten 56,5% der ukrainischen Wähler für Wiktor Juschenko, für Wiktor Janukowitsch – 41,3 %. Die Daten sind per 20.00 Lokalzeit, basierend der Auswertung von 80% der Bögen, meldet IA „Nowosti-Ukraina“.

Der Nationale Exit-Poll besteht aus ukrainischen soziologischen Instituten. Die Wählerbefragung beim Ausgang der Wahllokale wurden unter der Kontrolle des Zentrums von Jurij Lewada und des polnischen Unternehmens PBS, durchgeführt.

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26. Dezember 2004, 20:32

Schreiben die Exit-Polle in der Ukraine von einander ab ?

Laut Angaben eines Exit-Poll, welcher von der Firma „The Luntz research company“ im Auftrag von ICTV durchgeführt wurde, erhielt Wiktor Juschenko 56% der Wählerstimmen, Wiktor Janukowitsch – 42%.

Laut Angaben eines weiteren Exit-Polls, welcher das Zentrum für „Sozialen Monitorring“ durchführte, erhielt Juschenko 58,1%, Janukowitsch - 38,4%, gegen alle wählten 3,5% der Wähler, meldet ICTV.

Wie ForUm schon gemeldet hat, haben laut den Angaben des Nationalen Exit-Polls 56,5% der ukrainischen Wähler für Wiktor Juschenko gestimmt, für Wiktor Janukowitsch – 41,3%

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26. Dezember 2004, 20:37

Janukowitsch erwartet den Sieg, ist aber bereit „in eine harte Opposition zu gehen“

Wiktor Janukowitsch erwartet den Sieg, aber im Falle einer Niederlage verspricht er eine harte Opposition zu bilden. Das erklärte er während der heutigen Pressekonferenz, meldet der Korrespondent von ForUm.

Seinen Worten nach, würde er „nie zusammen mit der Mannschaft sein, welche ihr wahres Gesicht gezeigt hat, und wird niemals die Vertreter dieser Mannschaft zu sich einladen".
„Heute bin ich darin überzeugt, dass man mit Menschen, welche keine Moral haben, keine Verhandlungen führen kann“ – sagte er.

Auf die Frage, ob er bereit sei, die Parlamentsopposition anzuführen, antwortete er, er wäre bereit einen Staat anzuführen.

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26. Dezember 2004, 20:50

Janukowitsch: die Exit-Polls wurden mit dem gleichen Geld finanziert, wie der „orangene Putsch“
Die Exit-Polls wurde mit dem gleichen Geld finanziert, wie der „orangene Putsch“. Diese Meinung äußerte Wiktor Janukowitsch, als er von Journalisten bezüglich der Exit-Polls befragt wurde, meldet der Korrespondent von ForUma.

„Exit-Polls – das sind Technologien, welche für das gleiche Geld gemacht wurden, wie der „orangene Putsch“, - sagte er.

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26. Dezember 21:10

Tomenko wird die Resultate der Exit-Polls „niemandem weggeben“.

Der Stab des Präsidentschaftskandidaten Wiktor Juschenko gratuliert schon die Teilnehmer der „orangenen Revolution“ mit dem Sieg. „Ich gratuliere euch zum überzeugenden Sieg. Diese 15% werden wir jetzt niemandem weggeben !“ – sagte einer der Führer der Opposition Nikolaj Tomenko, als er die Demonstration am Majdan der Unabhängigkeit eröffnete.

Tomenko gratulierte die Anhänger von Juschenko basierend auf Exit-Polls, meldet RIA „Nowosti“.

Zur Erinnerung, die Zentrale Wahlkommission der Ukraine versprach die ersten vorläufigen Ergebnisse um 23.00 zu veröffentlichen

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