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**ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, AUG. 15** A monument to a 17th century Ukrainian military leader and national hero Bogdan Khemlnitsky is seen in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, July 31, 2004, with the golden domes of recently rebuilt St.Michael cathedral in the background. More than a dozen years after it became independent amid the Soviet Union's collapse, Ukraine _ sprawled between an expanding Europe and a resurgent Russia, held in check by backsliding democracy and burgeoning corruption _ stands at a crossroads as the Oct. 31 presidential election approaches. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)