Word: kravchuk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their relations deteriorated two weeks ago when Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk announced that he was halting the transfer of tactical nuclear weapons to Russia. Kiev had pledged to hand over all such weapons by July, but so far, only around half of the roughly 2,500 tactical weapons have been shipped. In Moscow, Boris Yeltsin retaliated by creating his own defense ministry, the essential precursor to a separate Russian army. Ukraine then refused to take any part in a unified command structure. A proposal to set up a group of military observers to help resolve ethnic conflicts was rejected...
...summit's failure to resolve any important questions, warned Kravchuk, meant that "the entire existence of the C.I.S. is questionable...
Yeltsin has already conceded sovereignty to Ukraine in principle. Two months ago, he and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, along with the leaders of nine other Soviet republics, abolished the U.S.S.R. In its place they formed the Commonwealth of Independent States, which is a misnomer wrapped in a contradiction inside a political fiction. After living for so long under the Kremlin, the new states really are not independent at all. Their economies and infrastructures will take years, even decades, to disentangle...
...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...
Although he is a burly man, he seemed to shrink a bit last week as he posed for pictures beside his charismatic commonwealth partners. While the more publicity-wise Yeltsin and Kravchuk stared straight ahead, Shushkevich, 57, bowed his head, his hands clasped humbly in front of him. Technically he and the other two are equals, but there seems little doubt that he will exercise the least influence...