Word: ukrainian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soviet Union was never a normal state, it was an artificial empire and its collapse was natural," said George G. Grabowicz, the director of Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute. "For all practical purposes the Soviet Union is now dead...
Grabowicz, who is also the Cyzevs'kyj professor of Ukrainian literature, welcomed the vote as both a statement of self-determination and yet another sign of increasing democratization...
...Things look very optimistic for the Ukraine, given the large support [for independence] of the Ukrainian people," he said...
...Ukrainian Parliament declared independence Aug. 24, and the referendum asked: "Do you support the act proclaiming independence of Ukraine...
...Ukraine is so powerful economically and politically and has so many people--it is the second most populous republic with 52 million people--its secession would severely cripple Gorbachev as well as his government. Gorbachev has campaigned hard against any republics seceding, saying Saturday that Ukrainian independence would be a "catastrophe...