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Flags are one thing. But an independent Ukraine with its own soldiers? The idea may not be so farfetched: in Kiev last week the parliament overwhelmingly passed a declaration of sovereignty. Stopping short of proclaiming full independence, the document insists that the republic's laws take precedence over Moscow's rule. Furthermore, the decree envisions a neutral, nuclear-free Ukraine with its own army and currency. Even the large bloc of Communist parliamentary deputies joined nationalists in pressing for a fundamental change in relations with Moscow...
...Rukh movement, an umbrella organization for a host of proindependence groups, won a landslide victory in the western section. The radicals did not win a majority of seats in the republic's parliament, but their bloc of more than 100 is sizable enough to prevent the government in Kiev from getting a quorum on key votes...
Worried about the radical shift in the western half of the republic, authorities in Kiev tried to wrest control of the police, transportation, communication and even veterinary services from local municipalities on the eve of the elections. That has not cowed Lvov's new city council. At a recent session, deputies grilled a local official in charge of light industry and food production. Why was there so little milk? Why were the "bosses" still loading up their cars with scarce goods? "We are a rich agricultural area," complained one speaker, "but everything gets sent to the center...
...commander of the Kiev military district, Lieut. General Gromov, 46, is one of the most famous and admired officers in the country. A major general at 39, a Hero of the Soviet Union, he served three tours in Afghanistan and was overall Soviet commander there from 1984 until the pullout last year. Typically, he was the last soldier to cross the bridge back into the U.S.S.R., in February 1989. There is no tradition of Bonapartism in Russian history, and Gromov denies rumors that he is contemplating a coup, but he says the army "cannot be kept outside politics." His political...
...changes in the church in comparison to those which took place after the election of Gorbachev." Moreover, notes Jane Ellis of England's Keston College, Filaret's election would have sent "the strongest possible anti-Catholic signal to the Vatican" just six months after Gorbachev visited the Pope. The Kiev prelate's hostility to Rome has greatly complicated the bitter fight in the western Ukraine over Catholics' seizing churches that Stalin handed to the Orthodox...