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US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev
London Guardian/Ian Traynor | November 29 2004
With their websites and stickers, their pranks
and slogans aimed at banishing widespread fear of a corrupt regime, the
democracy guerrillas of the Ukrainian Pora youth movement have already notched
up a famous victory - whatever the outcome of the dangerous stand-off in
Kiev.
Ukraine, traditionally passive in its politics,
has been mobilised by the young democracy activists and will never be the
same again.
But while the gains of the orange-bedecked "chestnut
revolution" are Ukraine's, the campaign is an American creation, a
sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and
mass marketing that, in four countries in four years, has been used to try
to salvage rigged elections and topple unsavoury regimes.
Funded and organised by the US government, deploying US
consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US
non-government organisations, the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade
in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box.
Richard Miles, the US ambassador in Belgrade, played a
key role. And by last year, as US ambassador in Tbilisi, he repeated the
trick in Georgia, coaching Mikhail Saakashvili in how to bring down Eduard
Shevardnadze.
Ten months after the success in Belgrade, the US ambassador
in Minsk, Michael Kozak, a veteran of similar operations in central America,
notably in Nicaragua, organised a near identical campaign to try to defeat
the Belarus hardman, Alexander Lukashenko.
That one failed. "There will be no Kostunica in Belarus,"
the Belarus president declared, referring to the victory in Belgrade.
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