Roman Bessmertny This is Me

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1. 1. en.for-ua.com

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   Published on: 2/27/2008   Last Visited: 3/26/2008

   According to one of the main organisers of the revolution, Roman Bessmertny - Yushchenko's campaign manager and, currently, vice-prime minister - the aim was, effectively, to carry out a peaceful coup d',tat: "We created a system parallel to the state, because only a system could defeat an opponent backed by the whole state."
   
   More than two years before the 2004 presidential election, Bessmertny's team set up a massive operation to combat election fraud, and to capture it on camera where it happened. In some 30 months, they put as many as 150,000 people through training courses, seminars, practical tuition conducted by legal and media specialists.
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   Part of the answer was to keep information about the operation in distinct compartments, so that very few grasped the complete picture, but the main inspiration was that every step should be taken in conformity with the law: "We ensured that the state had no reason to complain," says Bessmertny.
   
   The orange team submitted the first notice of the event on Independence Square on November 15 2004, giving the authorities advance warning that the revolution would begin on November 21. The government didn't know the real agenda behind the concert and, even if it had, it would have found it hard to stop it.
   
   By November 21, following the second round of the election, Bessmertny's team had a good idea of how many would arrive in the square: "We knew from our events that, if we distributed half a million invitations around Kiev, 8,000 people would come.
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   As the demonstrators arrived, at first from Kiev and then from the rest of the country, they found that everything was ready for them: "You have to understand," Bessmertny says, "that the square wasn't just the beautiful things you saw on television.
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   In the words of Bessmertny: "The people were so sick of the authorities, they were ready to give everything, ready to give their last things so that people would carry on standing there, on the square.

2. 2. ForUm :: Inside the Orange Revolution

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   Last Visited: 3/31/2006

   According to one of the main organisers of the revolution, Roman Bessmertny - Yushchenko's campaign manager and, currently, vice-prime minister - the aim was, effectively, to carry out a peaceful coup d',tat: "We created a system parallel to the state, because only a system could defeat an opponent backed by the whole state."
   
   More than two years before the 2004 presidential election, Bessmertny's team set up a massive operation to combat election fraud, and to capture it on camera where it happened. In some 30 months, they put as many as 150,000 people through training courses, seminars, practical tuition conducted by legal and media specialists.
   ...
   Part of the answer was to keep information about the operation in distinct compartments, so that very few grasped the complete picture, but the main inspiration was that every step should be taken in conformity with the law: "We ensured that the state had no reason to complain," says Bessmertny.
   
   The orange team submitted the first notice of the event on Independence Square on November 15 2004, giving the authorities advance warning that the revolution would begin on November 21. The government didn't know the real agenda behind the concert and, even if it had, it would have found it hard to stop it.
   
   By November 21, following the second round of the election, Bessmertny's team had a good idea of how many would arrive in the square: "We knew from our events that, if we distributed half a million invitations around Kiev, 8,000 people would come.
   ...
   As the demonstrators arrived, at first from Kiev and then from the rest of the country, they found that everything was ready for them: "You have to understand," Bessmertny says, "that the square wasn't just the beautiful things you saw on television.
   ...
   In the words of Bessmertny: "The people were so sick of the authorities, they were ready to give everything, ready to give their last things so that people would carry on standing there, on the square.

3. 3. www.russiajournal.com

   www.russiajournal.com/node/199 - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/15/2005   Last Visited: 7/6/2007

   Yushchenko's representatives David Zhvania, Roman Bessmertny and Alexander Tretyakov had visited Berezovsky in London to discuss financial issues, Kravchuk said.
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   Active premier Roman Bessmertny also denied his part.