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UKRAINIAN INTERIOR MINISTER WANTS TO PREVENT 'MARCH OF JUSTICE' TO KYIV. Vasyl Tsushko said at a news conference in Kyiv on March 17 that he has ordered police to take measures to prevent the People's Self-Defense movement organized by former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko from staging the so-called March of Justice from the provinces to Kyiv this coming spring (see "RFE/RL Newsline," March 12, 2007), the "Ukrayinska pravda" website reported. "Those terminators [from People's Self-Defense] are mobilizing their forces against Kyiv. According to our information, they engage senior graders from schools [as well as] students of vocational and technical schools by offering $25 each," Tsushko said. "We now have a spring relapse of political schizophrenia, and we need to stop this schizophrenia," he added. Meanwhile, Lutsenko participated in rallies on March 17 in Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk, where he campaigned for his movement and called on people to get ready for the March of Justice. The rally in Kharkiv attracted 10,000, and in Dnipropetrovsk 5,000. JM