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...Commonwealth Ave., Kenmore Square, Cambridge. 536-2750. Velcro Peasants, Cleopatra Jones and Shine on March 5. The Fighting Cocks, The Turbulent Daughters, Snidley Whiplash and The Furies on March 6. The Incredible Casuals, Harmony Rockets and Three Pound Universe Sunspots on March...
Yeltsin has already conceded sovereignty to Ukraine in principle. Two months ago, he and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, along with the leaders of nine other Soviet republics, abolished the U.S.S.R. In its place they formed the Commonwealth of Independent States, which is a misnomer wrapped in a contradiction inside a political fiction. After living for so long under the Kremlin, the new states really are not independent at all. Their economies and infrastructures will take years, even decades, to disentangle...
...wonder some experts in Moscow are predicting that the ruble will soon join the Soviet Union on history's trash heap. In an interview with the newspaper Rabochaya Tribuna, economist Yevgeni Petrakov foresaw the "downfall" of the ruble within several months and urged joint action by members of the Commonwealth of Independent States to ease the crisis. Other leading experts doubt that monetary reform by itself can revitalize the economy. "The main task now is not to manipulate finances," Oleg Yashin, first vice president of the Savings Bank of Russia, told Pravda. Rather, he declared, "it is to enable every...
...Commonwealth Ave., Boston...
...Commonwealth Ave., Boston...