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User talk:Angelique

Hello new user and welcome to Wikipedia. A few tips for you:

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-- Alexandros 19:07, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I like dead people too. Alexandros

Dear Angelique, i remove your question from the Village Pump to Conflicts between users. I dont like dead people :) Muriel Victoria 16:06, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * Adding an opinion... I dont know what the Quebec thing is about,, neither do i want to get involved. But, if you accept a friendly advice, try to contribute in other topics too and not get too involved about this one in particular. And trust the mediation of other wikipedians. And have fun, like Alex suggested above: thats the most important thing here. Cheers, Muriel Victoria
 * I'm glad to know that are not actually *dead* people :). Yes, i'm sysop but that does not mean that me or my opinion matter more than yours. I moved to conflicts because its the place you go when you want to avoid a perpetual reverting between users, or where you ask for a third party mediation. That is what i think you wanted... Muriel
 * I started the Kings of France family tree where my reference started. If you want to complete it / correct it / change it and improve it go ahead! Thats the beauty of wiki! If you like history, then there is a lot you can do around here. I'm more into acient history but i know that some section in medieval are hopeless. There are loads of contributions to be made! Muriel

Angelique, I think you, Mathieu, and Tremblay need to take a break from the History of Quebec article, but especially you most of all. If you want, I will try to make some sense out of what is there, hopefully to everyone's satisfaction, but I think you should stop editing it for a few days. Adam Bishop 17:16, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * See, you can't even respond to me without the same sort of polemic you are writing on History of Quebec. I'll wait to see how Mathieu responds to what I've said, but my advice remains the same - stay away from the Quebec article for a few days, at least. Adam Bishop 17:29, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * Well, regardless of whether or not your edits are all factual, you are quite obviously pushing your own POV and that certainly is not in accordance with Wikipedia policy, no matter how much you claim it is. Mathieu and Tremblay and whoever else may also be doing this from the opposite perspective (and I'm pretty sure they are), which is why I'm suggesting that all of you take a break. I also don't understand why you are claiming they're the ones going on and on about racism? It's fairly easy to see you're the one doing that, at least on the History of Quebec talk page. BUt I don't really want to get into accusations and all of that, all I am trying to do is get the three of you to stop editing the page for awhile.  17:41, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Angelique - Mathieugp and Tremblay have both agreed to stop editing the article for a week (that was a few days ago, so I suppose it's down to 5 days now), and I still think it would be in everyone's best interest if you did the same. Adam Bishop 16:52, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I highlighted a sentence above for you. Cheers, Muriel Victoria 16:54, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Adam Bishop stated: "you are quite obviously pushing your own POV". My reply (again) is that you have not read a single thing. Your remarks are unfounded, ignorant, and in violation of Wikipedia policy on several levels. Please stop. Thank you. Angelique 16:58, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * How have I violated policy in any way? And why are you completely unwilling to work with anyone, even to the point of moving the entire article? This is ridiculous. Adam Bishop 18:01, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * You "win," I suppose - I'm going to avoid this article entirely now, because it's impossible to work out what should be there and what shouldn't. I am also no longer neutral as I find it difficult not to take sides against you :) So, have fun with the article, hopefully someone gets tired of it eventually. Adam Bishop 19:31, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I don't know if you saw my question on the History of Quebec talk page, so I'll ask here...what specifically is the problem with the "though every dog in Quebec will bark" quote? Is it apocryphal? Or are you just trying to make Macdonald look better? Adam Bishop 20:21, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Unless you know of a better source, we'll have to make do with personal pages which various users have decided are reasonably accurate to suffice for the time being. Lirath Q. Pynnor

eventually, any information at that site will be assimilated. Until it is, we should retain the link. Lirath Q. Pynnor

The village pump is archaic -- mailing list IRC_channel <--- no longer red

The information at the external link, which u removed, will eventually be added to the wikipedia; and there will be no need for that link. Until then, keep the linl. Lirath Q. Pynnor

The Wikipedia endorses no links; do you object to any of the information on the page in question? Lirath Q. Pynnor

Hi again, I was thinking I may have been a little too jumpy lately, especially as there is a policy of "don't bite the newbies," so I'd like to apologize. I'm sure you'll get used to Wikipedia once you're here longer, and hopefully we can work together on articles instead of accusing each other of various things :) I want New France and the other articles to be accurate too, of course! I hope this is acceptable, and I look forward to working with you. Adam Bishop 05:14, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I don't particularily care if it's racism or not - the reader can decide that for his or herself. We can't accuse people of racism in an article. Even just providing the quote is a little suspect, if you have included it simply to bash the BQ (while apparently wanting to remove a quote that denigrates Macdonald's character). I think you have misunderstood the POV policy on Wikipedia. Adam Bishop 04:00, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hi Angelique. Can you use Talk: pages more often before making controversial changes to various articles? I'm not only referring to Timeline of Quebec history but also Bloc Québécois. You seemed to be open to discussion at one point.. but then you returned to reverting everything while ignoring everyone's concerns. It's gotten so ridiculously petty. Tremblay 04:11, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Unless you're prepared to add every controversial statement ever made by a Canadian politician to the appropriate party page, this particular incident doesn't belong on Bloc Québécois. It's no more worthy of note than many other similar incidents that are not listed on their party's page, such as the numerous Canadian Alliance statements against gays, "Tequila Sheila", "Sambo", anti-francophone statements, etc. It's all or none. The Suzanne Tremblay incident is not special. Bearcat 04:18, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

If you want to do an article specifically on Suzanne Tremblay which makes note of this incident, great. I'd support that. But mathieugp and Tremblay are correct that the incident does not belong in Bloc Québécois. Bearcat 16:58, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hi Angelique, may I request that you do not add quotes from me on your user page. I feel that displaying them out of context in this way gives a false impression of what I actually meant at the time I wrote these. Angela. 14:48, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Well then try forgiving and forgetting. If Mathieugp is no longer making personal attacks, I don't see why he should need to be reminded of them via your user page. If he is, then you need to address that in the normal way, not by using your user page to make a statement. As I have said before, I object to adding messages to or from me on your user page. Please refrain from doing this. Angela. 15:19, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Here is a link to the interview of Robert Libman at the Voir weekly paper. This time, it is not a copy of it on http://www.vigile.net/, rather it is on http://www.voir.ca/, the actual online edition of Voir, which any Montréalais can grab for free in the métro or in cafés and various other public places. The Voir also has many other editions for other cities in Québec City, Gatineau, Saguenay etc. Being free, there are literally millions of people who read it every week. Follow this link to read the article: B'nai Brith va-t-elle trop loin? You can use http://babelfish.altavista.com/ to translate if needed, although don't expect too much from a robot translation :-). -- Mathieugp 21:35, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

This obsession of yours for ethnic questions gives me the idea of writing articles on Israel-born Solomon Cohen and African-born Maka Kotto who are both members of the PQ. I mean, these are important public figures here. One is a war hero of Israel, the other one is a France and Quebec tv and movie star. They sure deserve to be in Wikipedia more than Suzanne Tremblay who is a nobody from the BQ. -- Mathieugp 21:51, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Article Licensing
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Unreferenced BLPs
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User talk:Matty j

Hello new user and welcome to Wikipedia. A few tips for you:

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 * Sign talk page entries with ~, which is automatically converted to a name and date
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-- Alexandros 19:07, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the advise.

-- Matty j 19:12, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Baseball/temp
Hi Matty, I noticed you have contributed to many bios of MLB players, I'd like to ask for your opinion whether it's time to move the rewritten Baseball/temp to Baseball. Please comment at Talk:Baseball/temp. Thanks. 大将军, 都督中外诸军事 (talk) 01:56, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)

You deserve every one of those 4 wikis for Glenn Beck! --Merovingian 09:33, Jan 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Shucks... thanks ;-). -- Matty j 16:56, Jan 4, 2004 (UTC)

Hello, I just wished to inform you that I created Kevin Millwood. I hope you find it satisfactory enough to authorize a transfer of Wikimoney. -- Lord Emsworth 17:57, Jan 10, 2004 (UTC)

Generally, whatever the giver thinks is appropriate will be sufficient, for if the reward is too low, others will not take up the offer. Also, in general, when multiple articles are being requested, it is the standard practice to offer a slightly lower amount for each one. This way, the opportunity to earn more makes up for the lesser amount for each individual article. -- Lord Emsworth 22:25, Jan 10, 2004 (UTC)

Hi. I wrote Mike Terrance Cameron. I think it is exactly what you want to see, so I transferred 1 Wiki from your WikiBank account to my account. Your account had 23 Wikis and now has 22. .'. Optim 18:51, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC) .'.

Hi! I don't exactly know how these "Wikis" things work, but I created an account of ψ0 at the WikiBank, and I have previously written an article on Mark Belanger. I gather it would be up to you whether or not to transfer ψ1 to my account...care to take a look when you get the chance? Thanks! - Scooter 14:27, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I was interested in your removal of my minor revisions of the Liberal sponsorship scandal article. I had changed the opening sentence because I don;t think defining a scandal as a scandal is informative, and because the scandal is not over (which means it is a scandal rather than was one). As i said, this is a minor issue, but it would have helped if you'd explained the reversion. I might not be bothering this not if you had, for example. I've edited your new opening again, but if you want to revert to your original version I'm not going to get into a reversion war. I don't really see how my changes harmed the article, though. Trontonian

Matty, I wrote an article on Brian Roberts. I hope you like it and give me a wiki for it. BTW thanks for the cycle page. Didn't know if was that rare. Yardcock 02:35, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks Yardcock 03:16, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

New baseball articles
Matt, I'm too new to start getting WikiMoney under the rules (I only got my account late last week), but I've dived in already and written up bios on Ralph Kiner and Wilbert Robinson. Just thought you'd like to take a look. CharlieZeb 01:43, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

Just finished up with Joe Tinker, have a look. Gamaliel 03:30, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

interested in starting a baseball wikiproject?
I looked at some of the wikiprojects and I think it would be a good idea to have a baseball wikiproject to keep baseball player's bio's & other baseball pages consistent. Having something like an 'infobox' (like WikiProject_snooker) for standard biographical info would be a good way to keep standard things in the same place. So far I've talked to Indrian about this and he was interested in doing it (see his talk page). I was wondering what other baseball contributors thought about the idea. It would also be a good way to agree to what categories there should be, what baseball articles need to be worked on, images that are needed, etc. Please reply as to whether you would be interested in working on this with us. Thanks! - Mattingly23 00:38, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

p.s. I've also sent this message to MusiCitizen, please tell other wikipedians you think would be interested and get their repsonses as to whether or not they would want to do this.

Abortion in Canada
I was making some rather broad copy-edit changes to this article while you were doing the same; my merge attempts quickly spun out of control and I committed what resulted. Please feel free (of course) to re-edit anything as you see fit.

--Marcie 22:15, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)I'll go and look it over. Some of the reedit on the political parties was very good i thought. The discussion page is full though...how is that dealt with. I'm still learning Wikipedia. I've looked at the instructions on how to link but i don't get it...maybe you could help? For example the Canadian page mentions chemical abortions. The main page on abortions has a summary of what a chemical abortion is (i helped work on that one). The thing is i don't know how to link them. If you could print out how you might link them it might help me figure it out...

Thanks for the comments. I'll try to watch the capitalization. I traditionally have used small "i" in all my email. Sorry 'bout grammar...i'll try to improve on it. I have looked at the edits for the links ( i figured maybe i could get it that way, i often learn by seeing---thanks for the suggestion on how to pick more of it up).

Also thanks for telling me where the biographical stuff goes. I still need to find the way to get there (smile...i know you got it in there, i need to figure it out) but i appreciate the heads up. And I hadn't noticed folks signed at the end not the beginning although it seems obvious now!--Marcie 01:45, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
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baseball franchises
You made Boston Beaneaters into a redirect to Atlanta Braves. This is a decision I fully support. I think it is the correct protocol for MLB teams. There is currently a debate raging at Votes for deletion/Montréal Expos, and so far the redirect solution is losing. I think it is because some of the users don't fully understand how franchises work in MLB. If you have the time, maybe you could chime in on the conversation there. Kingturtle 04:29, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

expos/nationals debate
There is a major debate going on, and I wondered if you might want to chime in. The debate involves how to deal with franchise moves in baseball. The question is whether Montréal Expos should be its own article or if it should redirect to Washington Nationals. All other instances of franchise moves in MLB redirect the old team name to the new team name, and the history of the franchise is covered within the new team name (for MLB, NBA and NFL examples, see here. Some people are confused and think the Expos and the Nats are different teams. Some people don't want to upset Canadian readers.

Indeed, the Washington Nationals are not a new team - the Montreal Expos franchise has moved to Washington, and the old franchise name should redirect to the new franchise name, just like the 20+ instances of this occuring in Wikipedia. For example, Brooklyn Dodger history resides in the Los Angeles Dodgers article. New York Giants history, including the Shot Heard 'Round the World, resides in the San Francisco Giants article.

If you have the time, maybe you could chime in on the conversation there, Votes for deletion/Montréal Expos. Kingturtle 17:22, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Burford
I worked at the high school for a year. Being a 'city' person, living in or close to Toronto and Detroit all my life, I was impressed by Burford and the students. It gave me a glimpse of small town life. The little blurb in the article is just from a scrap of prose I had scribbled around with.--Mikerussell 03:04, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)

Cut & Paste Edit
Thank you for helping with disambiguation efforts by turning Vernon Wells into a disambiguation page. Unfortunately, during the process of doing this, you made a rather problematic error by cutting-and-pasting all of the former article content to a new article. Under the GFDL which Wikipedia uses, we must include contributor histories for all of our articles, and cut-and-paste moves cause problems for us.

For future reference, a possible method of avoiding this would have been:

 * 1) Move Vernon Wells to Vernon Wells (actor)
 * 2) Turn the redirect page at Vernon Wells into the disambiguation page

Regardless of this, do keep up the good work. Rob Church Talk 00:24, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Just to keep you up-to-date, what I wound up doing was this:

 * Reverted Vernon Wells back to the actor content
 * Added a disambiguation notice at the top of Vernon Wells referring to the baseball player
 * Have Vernon Wells (actor) deleted

 * In cases where there's only two or three people by one name, it makes sense to disambiguate on the pages themselves. Rob Church Talk 00:43, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

User Categorisation
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Wikimedia Canada
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Vernon Wells
Hey...I was wondering about the Vernon-David thing too, but I left it in because the same information is on the David Wells page. I'm trying to hunt down proof of it but can't seem to find any not linked back to Wikipedia. Anyways, you're probably right to remove it, I'll let you know if I stumble across evidence of it. Schrodingers Mongoose 05:44, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

ps: I was able to complete your mission from last year to make Vernon the ballplayer rather than Vernon the unknown actor the link from "Vernon Wells" searches. Good call. Schrodingers Mongoose 05:46, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

My apologies
wow my apologies, I really shouldve looked into it before i said anything. Im a new user and once I saw that you made major edits to the Vernon Wells page I figured it were you. Sorry about that once again.ETod09 19:55, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Mathematics CotW
Hey Mat, I am writing you to let you know that the Mathematics Collaboration of the week(soon to "of the month") is getting an overhaul of sorts and I would encourage you to participate in whatever way you can, i.e. nominate an article, contribute to an article, or sign up to be part of the project. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks--Cronholm144 23:28, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Expanded roster
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Unreferenced BLPs
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Nomination of Crisis of faith for deletion
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Nomination of Truism for deletion
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Newfie

Newfoundlander (also Newf or sometimes Newfy) is a colloquial term used by Canadians and others for someone who is from Newfoundland. Many Newfoundlanders consider "Newfie" as a slur first used by American and Canadian military forces stationed on the island. The term is also associated with jokes from the mid-to-late 20th century that depicted "Newfies" as foolish, in particular when told in Canadian French, leading to a belief in the derogatory nature of the term.

During the Second World War, sailors on convoy duty nicknamed St. John's Newfiejohn.

Usage
The first edition of the Gage Canadian Dictionary, published in 1983, and the second edition of the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, published in 1987, both include usage notes describing the term 'Newfie' as offensive. However, neither the second edition of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, published in 2004, nor the current edition of the Dictionary of Newfoundland English, published in 1998, make such a mention. In March 2006, an Edmonton police officer was disciplined for using the word Newphie [sic] to describe the apprehension of an individual under the Mental Health Act.

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Ferncliff Cemetery

Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum is a cemetery in Greenburgh, New York, United States, about 25 mi north of Midtown Manhattan. It was founded in 1902, and is non-sectarian. Ferncliff has columbariums, a crematory, a small chapel, and a main office located in the rear of the main building.

Mausoleums
Ferncliff Cemetery has three community mausoleums that offer what The New York Times has described as "lavish burial spaces". This cemetery includes columbariums. As of 2001, a standard crypt space in the mausoleums was priced at $15,000. The highest-priced spaces were private burial rooms with bronze gates, crystal chandeliers, and stained-glass windows, priced at $280,000.

Ferncliff
The Ferncliff Mausoleum, aka "The Cathedral of Memories", is the cemetery's oldest mausoleum, constructed in 1928. It has classic architecture, but the corridors are dark without glass panes to admit natural light. Ed Sullivan and Joan Crawford are two of the most famous interments in the main mausoleum. Judy Garland was interred here from her death in 1969 until 2017 when her family moved her remains to Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

Shrine of Memories
The Shrine of Memories is Ferncliff's second mausoleum and was constructed in 1956. "Shrine of Memories" is a more contemporary structure than "Ferncliff Mausoleum". It has many panes of glass to admit natural light, and there is a painting of Christopher Columbus in the main hall of the building. Basil Rathbone is one of the most famous interments in "Shrine of Memories".

Rosewood
Rosewood is Ferncliff's most recently completed community mausoleum, having been constructed in 1999. Joseph J. Mangan was the architect of Rosewood. Singer Aaliyah and her father Michael Haughton have a private room in Rosewood. Cab Calloway is interred with his wife Zulme "Nuffie".

Ground burials
The cemetery is also known for its in-ground burials in sections located in front of the mausoleums. Ferncliff is one of the very few cemeteries that does not permit upright headstones in its outdoor plots. All outdoor grave markers are flush with the ground. This feature facilitates maintenance of the cemetery grounds. However, there are several upright headstones that were placed before this policy was instituted. Malcolm X and the most famous ground burials, in plot Pinewood B.

Notable burials

 * Aaliyah (1979–2001), singer, actress, model, dancer; her father Michael Haughton (1951–2012), lies above her
 * Arthur W. Aleshire (1900–1940), congressman
 * Paul Althouse (1889–1954), opera singer
 * Diane Arbus (1923–1971), American photographer
 * Harold Arlen (1905–1986), composer
 * Tommy Armour (1895–1968), Hall of Fame professional golfer
 * Leopold Auer (1845–1930), violinist
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 * Albert E. Austin (1877–1953), U.S. Congressman from Connecticut
 * Arthur Baer (1886–1969), journalist
 * James Baldwin (1924–1987), novelist, essayist
 * Richard Barthelmess (1895–1963), actor
 * Béla Bartók (1881–1945), composer, pianist, scholar (remains were exhumed and moved to Budapest in 1988)
 * Charles A. Beard (1874–1948), educator, historian
 * Mary Ritter Beard (1867–1958), historian
 * Ouida Bergère (1886–1974), actress and screenwriter
 * Joseph P. Bickerton Jr. (1878–1936), attorney, theatrical producer
 * Sherman Billingsley (1900–1966), restaurateur, owner of Stork Club
 * Ray Bloch (1902–1982), composer, songwriter and arranger
 * Clint Blume (1898–1973), baseball player
 * Ballington Booth (1857–1940), social reformer (Volunteers of America)
 * Maud Booth (1865–1948), co-founder of Volunteers of America
 * Irène Bordoni (1895–1953), actress, singer
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 * Cab Calloway (1907–1994), musician
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 * Boris Chaliapin (1904–1979), artist, portrait painter, the son of Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin, brother of actor Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
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 * Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola (1900–1966), Mafioso
 * Alexander Cores (1900–1994), violinist, Dorian String Quartet
 * Joan Crawford (c. 1905–1977), actress
 * Ossie Davis (1917–2005), actor
 * Lya De Putti (1899–1931), actress
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 * Robert Evans (1930–2019), film producer
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Cremations
People whose remains were cremated and inurned at Ferncliff, but some people whose ashes were taken somewhere else include:
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 * Nelson Rockefeller (1908–1979), Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States. His ashes were scattered on his estate.
 * Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), scientist of electrotechnics. His ashes were placed in the Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade.

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Lake Peipus

Lake Peipus is the largest trans-boundary lake in Europe, lying on the international border between Estonia and Russia.

The lake is the fifth-largest in Europe after Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega (in Russia), Lake Vänern (in Sweden), and Lake Saimaa (in Finland).

The lake is a remnant of water regularly collecting at the foot of large, perennial arctic ice sheets during recent ice ages. It covers 3555 km2, and it has an average depth of 7.1 m, the deepest point being 15 m. The lake has several islands and consists of three parts:

 * Lake Peipus / Chudskoye (Peipsi järv, Чудское озеро), the northern part of the lake, with an area of 2,611 km2 (73%)
 * Lake Pihkva / Pskovskoye (Pihkva järv, Псковское озеро), the southern part of the lake (area 708 km2 or 20%)
 * Lake Lämmi / Tyoploye (Lämmijärv, Тёплое озеро), the sound connecting the other two parts of the lake (area 236 km2 or 7%)

The lake is used for fishing and recreation, but suffered from environmental degradation from Soviet-era agriculture. Some 30 rivers and streams discharge into Lake Peipus, the two largest of which are the Velikaya and Emajõgi. The lake drains into the Gulf of Finland via the Narva River.

On 5 April 1242, the frozen lake was the site of the Battle on the Ice (also known as the Battle of Lake Peipus) between the armies of the Novgorod Republic and the Teutonic Order.

Name
The origin of the name Peipus (Peipsi) is uncertain, although it may be paralleled by Lake Peipiä (Копанское озеро) and the village of Peipiä (Пейпия) along its shore, and by Peipozero (Пейпозеро) near Onega Bay. Paul Ariste suggested a pre-Finnic origin of the name, Julius Mägiste suggested a connection with peipo or peippu 'chaffinch' (or other songbird) or Votic põippõ 'chicken', Lauri Kettunen suggested derivation from a personal name, and Ruf Ageeva suggested a Baltic etymology, comparing it to Latvian piepe and Lithuanian pepis 'moisture, mold'. The Russian name Chudskoye ozero (Чудское озеро) means 'Chud Lake' (i.e., 'Estonian Lake'); the ethnonym Chud (чудь) referred to various Finnic peoples in what is now Estonia, Karelia, and northwestern Russia.

Formation
The lake is a remnant of a larger body of water that existed in this area during a former ice age. In the Paleozoic Era, 300 to 400 million years ago, the entire territory of the modern Gulf of Finland was covered by a sea. Its modern relief was formed as a result of glacier activities, the last of which, the Weichselian glaciation, ended about 12,000 years ago.

Topography and hydrography
The banks of Lake Peipus have smooth contours and form only one large bay: Raskopelsky Bay. The low shores of the lake mostly consist of peat and are bordered by vast lowland and marshes, which are flooded in the spring, with the flooding area reaching up to 1000 km2. There are sand dunes and hills covered with pine forests. Along the sandy shores, there is a 200–300 m wide stretch of shallow waters.

The relief of the bottom is uniform and flat, gradually rising near the shores and covered with silt, and in some places with sand. The deepest point of 15.3 m is located in the Teploe Lake, 300 m from the coast.

The lake is well-flowing, with the annual inflow of water equal to about half of the total water volume.

The lake water is fresh, with a low transparency of about 2.5 m due to plankton and suspended sediments caused by the river flow. Water currents are weak 5–9 cm/s; generally induced by wind, so stop when it ceases. However, during the spring flood, there is a constant surface current from north to south.

Because of the shallow depth, the lake quickly warms and cools. Water temperature reaches 25–26 C in July. The lakes freeze in late November – early December and thaw in late April – early May, first lakes Teploe and Pihkva and then lake Peipus. However, due to recent climatic changes, Lake Peipus has now commonly started to freeze later into December and thaw much earlier in April.

Basin and islands
About 30 rivers flow into the lake. The largest are Velikaya and Emajõgi; smaller rivers include Zadubka, Cherma, Gdovka, Kuna, Torokhovka, Remda, Rovya, Zhelcha, Chernaya, Lipenka, Startseva, Borovka, Abija, Obdeh, Piusa, Võhandu, Kodza, Kargaya, Omedu, Tagajõgi and Alajõgi. The lake is drained by only one river, the Narva, into the Baltic Sea.

The lake contains 29 islands, with a total area of 25.8 km2, with 40 more islands located within the delta of the Velikaya River. The islands are low wetlands, elevated above the lake surface on average by only 1–2 m (maximum 4.5 m) and therefore suffer from floods. The largest islands are Kolpina (area 11 km2) in the south, Piirissaar (area 7.39 km2 in the center, and Kamenka (area 6 km2). In the center of Pihkva Lake there is a group of Talabski Islands (Talabsk, Talabenets and Verkhniy).

Flora and fauna
The lake hosts 54 species of coastal aquatic flora, including cane, calamus (Acorus calamus), bulrush, grass rush, lesser bulrush (Typha angustifolia) and water parsnip (Sium latifolium). Floating plants are rare and are of only three types: arrowhead, yellow water-lily and water knotweed. The lake is home to perch, pike-perch, bream, roaches, whitefishes, smelt and other species of fish. The wetlands of the coastal strip of the lake are important resting and feeding grounds for swans, geese and ducks migrating between the White Sea and Baltic Sea and western Europe. Lake Peipus is one of the main stopovers for Bewick's swan (Cygnus columbianus). The swans leave their breeding grounds in the Russian Arctic 1,600 km away and the lake is the first stop for many. Bewick's rarely fly more than 1,900 km without fueling so they are near to the limits of their endurance when they reach the lake.

Ecology
The ecological condition of the lake basin is, in general, satisfactory – water is mostly of grades I and II (clean), and is of grade III in some rivers due to the high content of phosphorus. The water condition of the rivers has improved since 2001–2007, but there is an increase in population of blue-green algae. The main problem of Lake Peipus is its eutrophication.

Economy
The towns standing on the banks are relatively small and include Mustvee (population 1,610), Kallaste (population 1,260) and Gdov (population 4,400). The largest city, Pskov (population 202,000) stands on the river Velikaya, 10 km from the lake. Ship navigation is well developed and serves fishery, transport of goods and passengers and tourist tours. The picturesque shores of the lake are a popular destination for tourism and recreation at several tourist camps and sanatoriums.

History
In 1242, the southern part of Lake Peipus hosted a major historical battle where Teutonic Knights were defeated by Novgorod troops led by Alexander Nevsky. The battle is remarkable in that it was mostly fought on the frozen surface of the lake and is therefore called the Battle on the Ice.

Gdov was founded in 1431 as a fortress and became a city in 1780; the only remains of the historical Gdov Kremlin are three fortress walls. Kallaste was founded in the 18th century by the Old Believers who had fled from the Novgorod area, and there is still a functional Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church in the town. Near Kallaste, there is one of the largest surfacings of Devonian sandstone with a length of 930 m and a maximum height of 8 m, as well as several caves and one of the largest colonies of swallows in Estonia.

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Current issuers should have a standalone main article that is xref'd from the country's main article, typically from a "miscellaneous topics" section or from a short postal history section. Alternatively, the postal history section can be expanded to contain all the necessary information. The latter approach should be considered for a small country, a former colony or a country that no longer exists as an independent nation: e.g., Abu Dhabi. Many issuers were foreign powers operating in another country either through a post office abroad or through military occupation; as these issues involve more than one country, it is recommended that they have independent articles and not a section in the article of one country or the other, but they should be xref'd as before.

Entities which made only a small contribution to postal history need only a section in a general article about the entity, assuming that the entity itself has its own article. Otherwise, the reference in the Compendium may be sufficient. Be careful about redirecting historic entities to the present-day countries that replaced them as this can be fraught with difficulty in postal terms. For example, German East Africa had a postal history that was entirely independent of Tanganyika and Tanzania.

A word about article titles. Depending on the actual coverage of the article, titles such as Postage stamps and postal history of X or Postage stamps of X or Postal history of X are generally used. For military occupations, a title such as Postal History of the German Occupation of Poland (1939-1945) could be appropriate, and for peacetime postal services of one country outside its own borders, a title such as Russian post offices in the Turkish Empire. In some cases, none of these will be appropriate and it is then best to stay close to the naming used by major catalogues like Stanley Gibbons Ltd.

A postal history should note key dates and begin with the first introduction of a regular postal service, the introduction of postage stamps, etc. Any significant postage stamps or issues should be discussed, preferably with reference to information in the Gibbons catalogue. Any political or historical events that impacted the postal service should be mentioned. The length and depth of the survey will depend mainly on the country. Please conform to Wikipedia standards and provide suitable linkages as necessary.

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The definitive index to all postal studies by issuer is the Compendium which contains references to all issuing entities in alphabetic order. These references are micro articles and many of them are complete in themselves, though most will contain a link to a main article elsewhere on the site. This work includes not just a reference to the main issuer in its commonly understood form but also ancillary references such as abbreviations on overprints or alternate names on inscriptions that may be the reader's reason for lookup.

There is also a quick reference in three parts: List of entities that have issued postage stamps (A - E), List of entities that have issued postage stamps (F - L), and List of entities that have issued postage stamps (M - Z); plus List of postal services abroad which can be used to determine progress to date.

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Leonid Kuchma

Leonid Danylovych Kuchma (Леонід Данилович Кучма, ; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician who was the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. The only President of Ukraine to serve two terms, his presidency was marked by democratic backsliding and the growth of the Ukrainian oligarchs, as well as several scandals and improvement of Russia–Ukraine relations.

After a successful career in the machine-building industry of the Soviet Union, Kuchma began his political career in 1990, when he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament); he was re-elected in 1994. He served as Prime Minister of Ukraine between October 1992 and September 1993. Kuchma took office after winning the 1994 presidential election against his rival, incumbent President Leonid Kravchuk. Kuchma won re-election for an additional five-year term in 1999. 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.

Kuchma's administration began a campaign of media censorship in 1999, leading to arrests of journalists, the death of Georgiy Gongadze, and the subsequent Cassette Scandal and mass protests. 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 declined to seek a third term in office, instead supporting Party of Regions candidate Viktor Yanukovych for the 2004 election. Following public protests over the alleged electoral fraud which escalated into the Orange Revolution, Kuchma took a neutral stance and was a mediator between Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych. Between 2014 and 2020, Kuchma was a special presidential representative of Ukraine at the quasi peace talks regarding the ongoing War in Donbas.

Kuchma's legacy has proven controversial, and he has been described as authoritarian by various sources. Widespread corruption and media censorship under Kuchma's administration continue to have an impact on Ukraine today, and he has been accused of promoting oligarchism.

Early life
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma was born in the village of Chaikyne in rural Chernihiv Oblast on 9 August 1938. His father, Danylo Prokopovych Kuchma (1901–1942) was wounded in World War II and eventually died of his wounds in the field hospital #756 (near the village of Novoselytsia) when Leonid was four. His mother Paraska Trokhymivna Kuchma worked on a kolkhoz.

Kuchma attended the Kostobobriv general education school in the neighboring Semenivka Raion. Later he enrolled in Dnipropetrovsk National University as a candidate of technical sciences and he graduated in 1960 with a degree in mechanical engineering (majoring in aerospace engineering). In 1960 joined the Communist Party of Soviet Union.

Career
After graduation, Kuchma worked in the field of aerospace engineering for the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau in Dnipropetrovsk. At 28 he became a testing director for the Bureau deployed at the Baikonur cosmodrome.

Some political observers suggested that Kuchma's early career was significantly boosted by his marriage to Lyudmyla Talalayeva, an adopted daughter of Gennadiy Tumanov, the Yuzhmash chief engineering officer and later the Soviet Minister of Medium Machine Building.

At 38 Kuchma became the Communist party chief at Yuzhny Machine-building Plant and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. He was a delegate of the 27th and 28th Congresses of the Communist Party of Soviet Union. By the end of the 1980s, Kuchma openly criticized the Communist Party.

In 1982 Kuchma was appointed the first deputy of general design engineer at Yuzhmash, and from 1986 to 1992, he held the position of the company's general director. From 1990 to 1992, Kuchma was a member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament). In 1992 he was appointed as Prime Minister of Ukraine. He resigned a year later, complaining of "slow pace of reform". He was re-elected into parliament in 1994.

President (1994–2005)
Kuchma resigned from the position of Prime Minister of Ukraine in September 1993 to run for the presidency in 1994 on a platform to boost the economy by restoring economic relations with Russia and faster pro-market reforms. Kuchma won a clear victory against the incumbent President Leonid Kravchuk, receiving strong support from the industrial areas in the east and south. His worst results were in the west of the country.

Kuchma was re-elected in 1999 to his second term. This time the areas that gave him strongest support last time voted for his opponents, and the areas which voted against him last time came to his support.

During Kuchma's presidency, he closed opposition papers and several journalists and political opponents, such as Viacheslav Chornovil, died in mysterious circumstances. According to historian Serhy Yekelchyk, President Kuchma's administration "employed electoral fraud freely" during the 2000 constitutional referendum and 1999 presidential elections.

Domestic policy
In October 1994, Kuchma announced comprehensive economic reforms, including reduced subsidies, lifting of price controls, lower taxes, privatization of industry and agriculture, and reforms in currency regulation and banking. The parliament approved the plan's main points. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) promised a $360 million loan to initiate reforms.

He was re-elected in 1999 to his second term. Opponents accused him of involvement in the killing in 2000 of journalist Georgiy Gongadze, but Kuchma has consistently denied such claims. Critics have also blamed Kuchma for restrictions on press freedom. Kuchma is believed to have played a key role in sacking the Cabinet of Viktor Yushchenko by Verkhovna Rada on 26 April 2001.

Kuchma's Prime Minister from 2002 until early January 2005 was Viktor Yanukovych, after Kuchma dismissed Anatoliy Kinakh, his previous appointee.

Foreign policy
In 2002, Kuchma stated that Ukraine wanted to sign an association agreement with the European Union by 2003–2004 and that Ukraine would meet all EU membership requirements by 2007–2011. He also hoped for a free trade treaty with the EU.

In his inaugural address, Kuchma said:

"Historically, Ukraine is part of the Euro-Asian cultural and economics space. Ukraine's vitally important national interests are now concentrated on this territory of the former Soviet Union. ... We are also linked with... the former republics of the Soviet Union by traditional scientific, cultural and family ties... I am convinced that Ukraine can assume the role of one of the leaders of Euro-Asian economic integration."

Kuchma signed a "Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership" with Russia, and endorsed a round of talks with the CIS. Additionally, he referred to Russian as "an official language". He signed a special partnership agreement with NATO and raised the possibility of membership of the alliance. Under Kuchma's leadership, the Armed Forces of Ukraine participated in the Iraq War.

After Kuchma's popularity at home and abroad sank as he became mired in corruption scandals, he turned to Russia as his new ally. From the late 1990s he adopted a foreign policy which he described as "multi-vector", reaching out to Russia, Europe, and the United States. Critics assessed this policy as manipulating both the West and Russia to the personal benefit of Kuchma and Ukrainian oligarchs.

On 4 October 2001, Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 was shot down over the Black Sea by the Ukrainian Air Force while en route to Novosibirsk, Russia, from Tel Aviv, Israel. All 78 occupants of the plane, most of whom were Israelis visiting relatives in Russia, were killed. Following the shootdown, Kuchma initially refused to accept the resignation of Oleksandr Kuzmuk, Minister of Defence of Ukraine, and said, "Look what is happening around the world, in Europe. We are not the first, and we will not be the last. There is no need to make a tragedy out of this. Mistakes happen everywhere, and not only on this scale, but on a much larger, planetary scale." A week later, however, Kuchma announced his willingness to cooperate with Russian investigators, apologised to the governments of Russia and Israel, and accepted Kuzmuk's resignation.

Murder of Georgiy Gongadze and Cassette Scandal
From 1998 to 2000, Kuchma's bodyguard Mykola Melnychenko was allegedly eavesdropping Kuchma's office, later publishing the recordings. The release of the tapes – dubbed the Cassette Scandal – supposedly revealed Kuchma's numerous crimes. In particular was his approving the sale of radar systems to Saddam Hussein (among other illegal arms sales) and ordering the death of journalist Georgiy Gongadze. In September 2000, Gongadze disappeared and his headless corpse was found mutilated on 3 November 2000. On 28 November, opposition politician Oleksandr Moroz publicised the tape recordings implicating Kuchma in Gongadze's murder. In 2005, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's office instigated criminal proceedings against Kuchma and members of his former administration in connection with the murder of Gongadze. In 2005, the press reported that Kuchma had been unofficially granted immunity from prosecution in return for his graceful departure from office in 2005.

Critics of the tapes point to the difficulty of Melnychenko recording 500 hours of dictaphone tape unaided and undetected, the lack of material evidence of said recording equipment, and other doubts which question the authenticity and motive of the release of the tape. Kuchma acknowledged in 2003 that his voice was one of those on the tapes, but claimed the tapes had been selectively edited to distort his meaning.

However, the United States ambassador to Ukraine, Carlos Pascual, revealed that the tapes are genuine, undistorted, unaltered, and not manipulated because of the conclusion from FBI Electronic Research Facility's analysis of the original recording device and the original recording found that there are not unusual sounds which would indicate a tampering of the recording, the recording is continuous with no breaks, and there is no manipulation of the digital files.

The Prosecutor General of Ukraine's Office cancelled its resolution to deny opening of criminal cases against Kuchma and other politicians within the Gongadze-case on 9 October 2010. On 22 March 2011, Ukraine opened an official investigation into the murder of Gongadze and, two days later, Ukrainian prosecutors charged Kuchma with involvement in the murder. A Ukrainian district court ordered prosecutors to drop criminal charges against Kuchma on 14 December 2011 on grounds that evidence linking him to the murder of Gongadze was insufficient. The court rejected Melnychenko's recordings as evidence. Gongadze's widow, Myroslava Gongadze, lodged an appeal against the ruling one week later.

During the trial of Oleksiy Pukach for the murder of Gongadze, he claimed that Kuchma and Kuchma's head of his Presidential Administration, Volodymyr Lytvyn, were the ones who ordered the murder. Pukach was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the murder of Gongadze.

First Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Renat Kuzmin claimed 20 February 2013 that his office had collected enough evidence confirming Kuchma's responsibility for ordering Gongadze's assassination. Kuchma's reply the next day was, "This is another banal example of a provocation, which I've heard more than enough in the past 12 years".

2004 Ukrainian presidential election and Orange Revolution
Kuchma's role in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election and subsequent Orange Revolution is not entirely clear. In the run-up to the elections, oligarchs opposed to Leonid Kuchma contributed about $150 million to opposition political parties. According to Michael McFaul, U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014 and architect of Barack Obama's policy in the region, the U.S. government spent more than $18 million on "democracy promotion" in the two years leading up to the election. After the second round on 22 November 2004, it appeared that Yanukovych had won the election by fraud, which caused the opposition and independent observers to dispute the results, leading to the Orange Revolution.

Kuchma was urged by Yanukovych and Viktor Medvedchuk (the head of the presidential office) to declare a state of emergency and hold the inauguration of Yanukovych. He denied the request. Later, Yanukovych publicly accused Kuchma of a betrayal. Kuchma refused to officially dismiss Prime Minister Yanukovych after the parliament passed a motion of no confidence against the Cabinet on 1 December 2004. Soon after, Kuchma left the country. He returned to Ukraine in March 2005.

Kuchma said in October 2009 that he would vote for Victor Yanukovych in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election. In a document dated 2 February 2010 and uncovered during the United States diplomatic cables leak, Kuchma, in a conversation with United States Ambassador to Ukraine John F. Tefft, called the voters' choice between Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko during the second round of the 2010 presidential election as a choice between "bad and very bad" and praised (the candidate eliminated in the first round of the election) Arseniy Yatsenyuk instead.

In September 2011, Kuchma stated that he believed that Yanukovych was the real winner of the 2004 election.

Post-presidency
Leonid Kuchma has been active in politics since his presidency ended. He aligned himself with President Viktor Yushchenko in 2005, but later raised concerns about the president in correspondence with then U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, John Tefft. Kuchma endorsed Yanukovych for president in 2010.

Involvement in the 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine
Kuchma represented Ukraine at negotiations with the armed separatists in the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces on 21 June 2014 to discuss President Petro Poroshenko's peace plan. His role as a diplomat was received positively by the west and Russia as well as by the public in Ukraine.

On 11 February 2015, Kuchma was one of the signatories of a draft plan to end the conflict in Donbas. The summit was known as Minsk II. The plan ensured that a ceasefire was implemented; reaction from leaders in Europe was generally positive.

In March 2015, Kuchma delivered an address calling on the west for greater involvement in the region. He criticized the action of Russian-backed forces in the attempt to seize the town of Debaltseve.

In September 2015, Kuchma was again appointed as the representative for Ukraine at the Trilateral Contact Group. The group met in Belarus to discuss ending the conflict in Donbas. In early 2017, Kuchma spoke out against the transport blockade of Donbas. In March 2017 at the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) in Minsk, he demanded that the Russian Federation repeal their decree on the recognition of passports issued in separatist-held areas.

On 2 October 2018, Kuchma stepped down as Ukraine's representative in the Trilateral Contact Group due to his age. He returned to the talks in June 2019, at the request of newly elected Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and after mediation by Victor Pinchuk. According to American sources, he left the post again in July 2020, citing fatigue. He was replaced by Leonid Kravchuk.

Russian invasion of Ukraine
When Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Kuchma said that he would remain to help defend the country: "I stay at home, in Ukraine, because we are all in our Homeland, there is no other. And we will defend it together until the very victory – without division into party columns, without personal interests and old arguments. United we stand around the Flag, the Army, and the President. Ukraine is not Russia. And it will never become Russia. No matter how hard they want this. We are already winning. And this can’t be stopped. And I will only say to the Russian Federation that I agree with the words of my compatriots who say in one voice: damn you all!".

In November 2023, Kuchma presented his new book Ukraine is Not Russia: Twenty Years Later.

Family and personal life
Kuchma has been married to Lyudmyla Talalayeva since 1967. is the Honorary President of the National Fund of Social Protection of Mothers and Children, "Ukraine to Children" and is also known as a paralympic movement in Ukraine supporter.

Kuchma's only child, daughter Olena Pinchuk, is married to Viktor Pinchuk, an industrialist and philanthropist whose Victor Pinchuk Foundation regularly hosts Ukraine-dedicated and philanthropic forums at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos. Victor Pinchuk made headlines when it was revealed that one of his lobbyists was previously picked by Donald Trump for national security aide.

Kuchma was an amateur guitar player in his younger years. He was also known for his skill at the complicated card game preferans.

In 2003, he published his book, Ukraine is Not Russia.

After retirement, Kuchma was allowed to keep the state-owned dacha in Koncha-Zaspa for his personal use upon completion of his state duties. Government order #15-r, which allowed Kuchma to keep his estate, was signed by acting Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on 19 January 2005. Kuchma was also allowed to keep his full presidential salary and all service personnel, along with two state-owned vehicles. That order also stated that these costs would be paid out of the state budget.

Legacy
Kuchma's legacy as President of Ukraine has proven divisive and controversial. He has been commonly referred to as authoritarian, and his attacks on independent media, as well as his economic reforms, have continued to impact Ukraine in the years since he left office.

Kuchma's detractors have accused him of establishing the Ukrainian oligarchs with his economic reforms, and many oligarchs entered politics during his presidency, among them Kuchma's son-in-law Viktor Pinchuk, Viktor Medvedchuk, Ihor Bakai, Kostyantyn Zhevago and Heorhiy Kirpa.

Kuchma's political legacy has also been impactful. Each of his successors except Volodymyr Zelenskyy began their political career under and with the support of Kuchma. Several other politicians, such as Medvedchuk, Volodymyr Lytvyn, Leonid Derkach, Volodymyr Horbulin, and Oleksandr Omelchenko also were promoted by Kuchma during his tenure in office.

Despite numerous human rights abuses during his tenure, such as vote rigging in the 2004 presidential election, and the mysterious deaths of numerous political opponents, among them Gongadze and Viacheslav Chornovil, Kuchma has never been charged with a crime, and numerous attempts to do so have proven unsuccessful.

Awards
Kuchma was awarded the Azerbaijani Istiglal Order for his contributions to Azerbaijan-Ukraine relations and strategic cooperation between the states by President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev on 6 August 1999.

 * Ukrainian Honours
 * Order of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) of St. Ilya of Murom, 1st class (2004)
 * Honorary Citizen of the Donetsk Oblast (2002)

 * Foreign Honours
 * Knight Grand Cross with Grand Cordon of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (3 May 1995)
 * Knight Collar of the Order of Civil Merit (4 October 1996)
 * Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st class (Russia, 20 April 2004) – for his contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between Russia and Ukraine
 * Grand Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great (Lithuania, 20 September 1996)
 * Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (Lithuania, 4 November 1998, Ludmila too)
 * Order of the Golden Eagle (Kazakhstan, 1999)
 * Grand Cross with Chain of the Order of the Star of Romania (Romania, 2000)
 * Order of the Republic (Moldova, 2003)
 * Order Laila Utama Dardzha Kerabat, 1st class (Brunei, 2004)
 * Chain of the Order of Prince Henry (Portugal, 16 April 1998) 3 February 1999
 * Order of the "Star of Bethlehem" (State of Palestine, 2000)

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