Word: kuchma
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...millions of dollars of aid to the former Soviet republic. The agreements followed Ukraine's decision last week to give up its nuclear arsenal and relinquish its position as the world's third-largest nuclear power. Today, President Clinton promised $200 million in new U.S. aid to President Leonid Kuchma over the next two years on top of $700 million already approved by Congress to help dismantle nuclear missiles. He also pledged to support Ukraine's independence -- particularly important for a country existing in uneasy proximity to Russia, which ruled Ukraine for more than 300 years.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin...
...along with that of Leonid Kuchma in neighboring Ukraine, was a measure of the deep disillusionment bedeviling many of the 15 republics that used to make up the U.S.S.R. Since the giddy days of 1991, when the republics scattered like schoolchildren at recess, independent life in what Russians call the "near abroad" has proved tougher than anticipated. Euphoria has slowly been replaced by disgust at the hardships of post-Soviet life: ethnic strife, political instability and government corruption. In the face of these problems, incompetent nationalist leaders, while touting the trappings of independence, have failed to deliver on essentials, such...
Amid this fiscal rubble, Ukrainians are eager to turn to Russia for help. And to make that rapprochement, they are looking to Kuchma, a former director of the world's largest missile factory, whose production lines once cranked out giant nuclear-delivery systems "like sausages," as Nikita Khrushchev boasted in the 1950s. The erstwhile industrialist won 52% of the vote, inflicting a shocking defeat on Leonid Kravchuk, who led Ukraine in breaking ties with Moscow, then spent the next three years quarreling with Russia, thwarting reform and cultivating ties with the West...
Despite the objections of nationalist critics who fear that Ukraine will lose control of its destiny if it reconciles with its longtime master, Kuchma emphatically told voters that the country has no other viable market and no other realistic source of oil and other resources. Without an "economic union" with Moscow, he declared, "there will be no Ukraine...
...Leonid Kuchma, former director of the world's largest missile factory, defeated incumbent Leonid Kravchuk in Ukraine's presidential election. An advocate of economic integration with Russia, Kuchma said he would honor the pledge made by his predecessor to give up Ukraine's nuclear arsenal, the world's third largest...