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President to appoint 2 western governors
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KIEV, April 19 – President Viktor Yanukovych on Tuesday will appoint governors of two western regions in Ukraine, Hanna Herman, Yanukovych’s deputy chief of staff, said Monday.

The appointments, apparently in Lviv and Chernivtsi, will be watched closely as both regions have been in heavy opposition to Yanukovych’s policy of closer ties with Russia.

“The decisions will be approved tomorrow morning,” Herman said. “Two governors will be appointed.”

The appointments were supposed to be made last week but appeared to be delayed, reflecting internal rivalry within the Yanukovych camp, people familiar with the situation said.

Yanukovych on Monday suddenly postponed his scheduled trip to Lviv, and said he will visit the city later, when the schedule permits.

Vasyl Horbal, the leader of the Kiev branch of the Regions Party, was originally tapped as the governor of the Lviv region, Volodymyr Rybak, deputy head of the Regions Party, said in a recent interview with Kommersant daily.

But Horbal, who earlier lived in Lviv, has a powerful opposition within the Regions Party, mostly from Herman, who is originally also from Lviv, the people said.

In Lviv, Yanukovych was supposed to introduce the new governor, and to meet journalists and editors from Ekspress newspaper that had been brutally attacked by police last week.

He was going to address concerns over the increased number of attacks against journalists less than two months after his inauguration to the presidency.

Yanukovych is also expected to address the issue at his first press conference as the president that has been scheduled on Thursday.

“Viktor Fedorovych will talk to reporters on the 50th day of his presidency,” Herman said. “This will take place on April 22 at the presidential administration.”

The attack on Ekspress journalists, filmed on camera and available on YouTube, was the fourth incident involving journalists since the inauguration of Yanukovych in February.

It came just as Yanukovych, in Washington, had been assuring U.S. President Barack Obama that his government is committed to promoting democracy and freedoms in Ukraine.

After the attack, the newspaper staff went on a protest action by blocking traffic at a major highway near Lviv that is linking Kiev and Chop, a Ukrainian city on the border with the European Union.

The staff demanded sacking a local police chief that had ordered the attack, and also urged Parliament to create a commission that would investigate the rising number of attacks on reporters. (tl/ez)




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