Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moscow supermarket across from the Kiev railroad station as the New Year opened, shoppers made their way past cheerless holiday decorations toward the display case in the processed-meat department. There they confronted a Muscovite consumer's dream: not sugarplum fairies but kolbasa sausages piled high on chipped metal trays. Yet there was no buying frenzy. The price per kilo was 43.75 rubles, compared with only 2.20 rubles less than a year ago. Grumbled a middle-aged woman overcome by price paralysis: "What a nightmare...
Kravchuk and I agreed that everything will be decided mutually and in stages. I've just sent Defense Minister Yevgeni Shaposhnikov to Kiev to work out procedures for the transition. In fact, nothing has changed so far as the armed forces are concerned. You Americans have nothing to worry about...
Born to peasants in western Ukraine, he earned the equivalent of a master's degree in political economy at Kiev University, then embarked on a career as a party apparatchik, rising to head the propaganda department of the Ukrainian Communist Party. Authoritarian by nature, he has the acumen necessary to secure a powerful position alongside Yeltsin. To those who question his sincerity, Kravchuk responds, "A man cannot keep the same views all his life." All people undergo changes, he argues. His just happened to come all at once...
...KIEV, Ukraine--Ukraine's president pledged last night to rid his newly independent republic of all nuclear weapons by the year...
...army without a country. Gorbachev and his generals will hardly be eager to see their control diluted. Before the referendum, in fact, the Soviet Defense Ministry pointedly told troops in Ukraine, including those controlling nuclear weapons, that whatever happened, they would remain under Moscow's command, not Kiev...