Word: ukrainian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...union, seemed to be at hand a few days ago, but only eight of the 12 remaining Soviet republics signed the treaty setting one up. Ukraine pulled out at the last minute, vowing to have total independence, and last week the parliament in Kiev voted to create a separate Ukrainian army, navy and air force. For good measure, it demanded to share control of all nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil rather than hand them over to Russia or any central government -- though it reaffirmed its intention to destroy the atomic weapons eventually...
...Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, the prototypical born-again nationalist, is in the habit of referring to all Soviet weapons in his republic as "ours." He enjoys pointing out that Ukraine would be the third largest nuclear power on earth, after the U.S. and whatever is left of the U.S.S.R. Kazakhstan would be fourth. Belorussia would be in the next echelon with Britain, France and China...
...best thing that the Ukrainian government could do to separate itself from the control of the Soviet regime and the current ethnic unrest is to acknowledge the horrors of the past, and remember them so that they never happen again...
Being a Historian in a Totalitarian Society: Reminiscences and Reflections--with Iaroslav Isaievych, director of the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Lviv. At 4 p.m. in the seminar room at the Ukrainian Institute at 1581 Mass...
...Bush motorcade arrived in Kiev, the streets were crowded with nationalist spectators, many of them waving the blue-and-yellow flag of the once independent Ukrainian state. But he made it clear that the U.S. would not intervene in the disputes between the republics and Gorbachev's central government. "We will not try to pick winners and losers in political competitions between republics, or between republics and the center," said the President. "((That)) is your business, not the business...