Quotable notes

"Let [Oleksander] Zinchenko [head of Viktor Yushchenko's campaign staff] taste the food which is brought to Yushchenko. That's what leaders did in the Middle Ages, I think.

"And I would recommend him to drink 100 grams of vodka. If he had drunk that, nothing would be wrong with him."

- Vasyl Baziv, deputy chief of the administration of President Leonid Kuchma, in a statement quoted on September 17 by the Reuters news service after it was announced that presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko had taken ill, possibly due to poisoning.

"I don't believe in exit polls. These are new, modern techniques, which will be used in Ukraine for the first time. We don't know how to manipulate them."

- Ukrainian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych, commenting on the plan of several major pollsters in Ukraine to hold a large exit poll during the October 31 presidential ballot, as quoted by UNIAN on August 31 and cited by RFE/RL Belarus and Ukraine Report.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, September 26, 2004, No. 39, Vol. LXXII

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