Word: gorbachev
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...Gorbachev Opposed...
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has vehemently opposed the Ukraine's secession and he said yesterday that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was "a catastrophe for all mankind...
...Ukraine is so powerful economically and politically and has so many people--it is the second most populous republic with 52 million people--its secession would severely cripple Gorbachev as well as his government. Gorbachev has campaigned hard against any republics seceding, saying Saturday that Ukrainian independence would be a "catastrophe...
...government have become increasingly irrelevant as the republics fill the political vacuum created by the failed hard-line coup against Gorbachev in August...
Since joining the resistance to the putsch attempt in August, Shevardnadze has been watching from the sidelines as the power of the central government has drained away to the ascendant republics. His decision to rejoin Mikhail Gorbachev is likely to lend credibility to the Soviet President's efforts to reconstruct a union and to solicit Western aid for the ailing economy...