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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: People from Chernihiv Oblast, Rivers of Chernihiv Oblast, Leonid Kuchma, Sozh, Alexander Dovzhenko, Nikolai Kibalchich, Kulykivka, Pavlo Tychyna, Nikolay Shchors, FC Desna Chernihiv, Levko Revutsky, Kozelets, Nizhyn, Baturyn, Chernihiv Musical Instrument Factory, Vira Ulianchenko, Kirill Razumovsky, Pryluky, Sosnytsia, Desna River, Black Grave, Mikhail Kirponos, Kruty Heroes Memorial, Vitaly Markovich Primakov, Novhorod-Siverskyi, Oleksandr Konysky, Borzna, Vladimir Betz, Vitaliy Masol, Semen Paliy, Honcharivske, Ruth Haktin, Antoniev Caves- Sacred place, Petro Tkachenko, Talalayivka, Oster, Nikolai Podvoisky, Kobyzhcha, Pryluky Regiment, Bakhmach, Isaak Mazepa, Kachanovka, Trinity Monastery, Volodymyr Bernatsky, Yukhym Shkolnykov, Liubech, Nizhyn Regiment, Varva, Ukraine, Horodnia, Sudost River, Bobrovytsia, Mena, Ukraine, Ichnia, Koriukivka, Korop, Snov River, Demian Mnohohrishny, Semenivka, Nosivka. Excerpt: Leonid Danylovych Kuchma (Ukrainian: ) (born August 9, 1938) was the second President of independent Ukraine from July 19, 1994, to January 23, 2005. Kuchma took office after winning the 1994 presidential election against his rival, incumbent Leonid Kravchuk. Kuchma won re-election for an additional 5-year term in 1999. His presidency was surrounded by numerous corruption scandals and the lessening of media freedoms. Corruption accelerated after Kuchma's election in 1994, but in 2000-2001, his power began to weaken in the face of exposures in the media. Under his watch the Ukrainian economy continued to decline until 1999, whereas growth was recorded since 2000, bringing relative prosperity to some segments of urban residents. During his presidency, Ukrainian-Russian ties began to improve. Kuchma was born in a village of Chaikine Chernihiv Oblast. His father Danylo Prokopovych (1901-1942) had died at the fiel...
