It will be easy for Ukrainian President...

Warsaw University"s Andrzej Szeptycki said the cancelation would bring Yanukovych additional points in the European Union and Russia and would make it possible for him to "annoy" Yushchenko.

Yanukovych, sworn in February 25 following the February 7 presidential election runoff that he narrowly won from then prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, said after Friday"s talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow that the Bandera controversy would be settled before this year"s Victory Day.

"This is a concession Yanukovych will find easy to make," Szeptycki was quoted by the Unian news agency as saying.

Yanukovych has a friendly attitude to Russia rather than Yushchenko whose pro-Western policies, including a bid to take Ukraine into NATO, saw a rapid deterioration in bilateral ties.

Bandera"s Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists briefly allied with Nazi Germany during the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. The Soviet authorities accused Bandera, who

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