Abstract
The 1994 presidential elections in Ukraine revealed many myths and legends, few of which are grounded in reality. Western media coverage was influenced by presidential elections held in neighbouring Belarus. The election of Alexander Lukashenko and Leonid Kuchma in Belarus and Ukraine respectively had the unfortunate result of being described as one and the same trend which looked set to reintegrate the former USSR with Russia. Regarding the ‘legend of Kuchma as a friend of reform and the legend of Kravchuk as a hardened nationalist, if Kravchuk were a nationalist the national minorities would not have voted for him?’ Myroslav Popovych, head of the Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences, pointed out.2
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