Word: kiev
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...this, however, has been a prelude to the final act: Ukraine. Moscow now seeks to shortcircuit its largest neighbor's drive for independence. Economically, Russia has exacerbated Ukraine's internal crisis by withholding vital energy supplies. Politically, Yeltsin has waged a successful diplomatic campaign to isolate Kiev internationally in a dispute over former Soviet nuclear weapons...
Little progress has been made on cleaning up the surrounding region. There is no equipment to decontaminate topsoil, and contaminated groundwater is backing up behind a concrete barrier near the reservoir that supplies water to the 2.6 million residents of Kiev. More than 700 peasants evacuated in 1986 have quietly moved back to their farm plots, where they consume contaminated animals and produce. "They would rather die here than live somewhere else," says Alexander Borovoi, a Russian nuclear physicist in charge of the sarcophagus. Some returned to find their homes pillaged of religious art. Although contaminated with cesium...
...attempt to address these problems, Demydenko is working to convert the Kiev Mohyla Academy, founded in 1615, from a naval academy to a private university focusing on environmental issues. This project was made possible by an agreement signed last February between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ukrainian Ministry of Environmental Protection...
...July 1, Kiev plans to replace the ruble completely with a new national currency, a move certain to disrupt already weakened trade links between Ukraine and the rest of the Commonwealth. Critics argue that by insulating Ukraine from Russia, Kravchuk is trying to avoid the kind of radical market reforms demanded by international lending organizations. Kiev counters by arguing that economic subordination to Russia is a drag on Ukraine's development as a sovereign state...
Kravchuk and Yeltsin are scheduled to meet in the near future to try to put aside the acrimony and mistrust of recent months. It was Russia and Ukraine, together with Belarus, that united last December to forge the Commonwealth and bury the Soviet Union. Without the cooperation of Kiev and Moscow, the C.I.S. will surely fail. It may fail anyway. But more troubling is the prospect of new violence in Europe, this time between two of the largest, and best armed, nations on the continent...