Word: crimea
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...Yeltsin had moments that made one believe Russia could shed its authoritarian impulses and emerge as something of a Western-style democracy. His finest hour, really his defining moment, was in August 1991. The leader of the country, Mikahil Gorbachev, was in the Crimea on summer vacation, and dark forces opposed to Gorby and his stop-start reforms tried to stage a coup...
UKRAINE A major gas standoff; unrest over Russia's Ukraine-based Crimea fleet...
...elsewhere are providing funds and supplies of extremist Islamist Russian-language literature from Chechnya, according to Yanina Sokolovskaya, Ukraine correspondent of the Russian daily Izvestiya. A Tatar paramilitary organization, 100 or so members of which reportedly fought in Chechnya against the Russians, is quietly training in the hills of Crimea. And the idea of "marrying Crimea to Chechnya," Sokolovskaya says, is becoming more and more popular among young Tatars. The immediate issue before Kuchma, however, is winning a majority in parliament. The fact that there are dozens of parties competing should help the President. He needs help. His personal ratings...
...Crimea's Tartar population officially adopts the Latin alphabet (1), throwing out the Cyrillic one imposed by Stalin...
...Ukrainian surface-to-air missiles were reportedly being fired Thursday at unmanned aircraft in joint Russian-Ukrainian exercises at the Chauda missile range in Crimea. U.S. officials believe some of those missiles were capable of reaching the plane. Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexander Kuzmuk expressed satisfaction with the exercises Thursday, and defense department officials denied any involvement in the downing of the airliner. Asked later by the Russian media to comment on reports emanating from the U.S. of an accidental shoot-down, the Kremlin press-service answered rather ominously: "It is up to the Ukrainian official authorities to answer this question...