Word: commonwealth
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...Soviet Union disintegrated, the military seemed to be about the only central institution that might survive relatively intact. The very picture of unity, order and discipline, it was the force everyone courted to approve -- or wreck -- plans for the new commonwealth...
...fielding their own armies. According to a source who attended the meeting last week between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and top Soviet generals, the military leaders agreed to allow the republics to create land units, while the navy, air force and all nuclear units would remain under unified commonwealth command. But whether the old army, which includes many conscripts, will be splintered by nationalism is still an urgent question...
Three republics sign the death certificate and begin to form a new commonwealth...
...after deftly shedding his party past, Kravchuk, 57, rode a wave of nationalist sentiment to election as President of an independent Ukraine, the most powerful of the republics after Russia. Then he went one step further, joining Russia and Belorussia with a plan to form a loosely knit commonwealth...
Stanislav who? Even Sovietologists had to scramble last week to gather information about Stanislav Shushkevich, the distant third member of the commonwealth troika...