UKRAINE PRESIDENT

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signs autographs during his meeting with local residents in Sumy, some 300 km (187 miles) northeast of capital Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 7, 2005.Viktor Yushchenko visited his home region of Sumy Monday, lashing out at the former government for allowing poverty and corruption and pledging vast changes to the former Soviet republic's administration. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)