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...stave off, at least for the moment, the threat of an outright economic war between the sundering union's republics. That prospect played no small part in pushing the commonwealth's founders together. When Yeltsin, Kravchuk, Belorussian leader Stanislav Shushkevich and some aides gathered at the Belovezhskaya Pushcha dacha, a forest retreat outside the city of Brest, on Saturday, Dec. 7, they appeared to have no intention of declaring the old union dead and founding a new association. But they quickly found they could not come to any other agreement -- and agreement was imperative...
...Gorbachev and Yeltsin agreed that one last effort had to be made to keep Ukraine in some sort of union. To that end, Yeltsin took advantage of an already scheduled trip to Belorussia to sign a trade agreement and invited Kravchuk to join the discussions at the forest dacha. According to their aides, the three initially tried to revive a Gorbachev idea to form a fairly loose Union of Sovereign States that would still have a central government of sorts. But all day Saturday, says Russian Deputy Prime Minister Gennadi Burbulis, they kept hitting "a dead end." Finally the leaders...
...Crimea in early August, Chernyayev, 70, and other members of the presidential staff accompanied them, staying at a health resort called Yuzhny, some seven miles from the presidential compound. During the day, Chernyayev and his team worked in offices just a few yards away from Zarya, the Gorbachevs' dacha; one of their assignments was to help the President put the finishing touches on a speech scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 20, to mark the signing of his cherished union treaty, under which the center would be redefined and significant new powers would be transferred to the republics. Here, Chernyayev describes what...
...Zarya dacha, The Crimea...
Boris reported that the Russian parliamentary delegation was on the dacha premises. "Call them in now," said M.S. A couple of minutes later we joined them in the dining room. I will remember all my life the scene that followed. Silayev and Rutskoi ran up to Gorbachev and embraced him. Exclamations, some words spoken loudly. People interrupting each other. Bakatin and Primakov were also there. Those were all the guys who had cussed M.S. more than once in parliament and in the press, argued, expressed indignation and protested...