Word: kravchuk
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, the prototypical born-again nationalist, is in the habit of referring to all Soviet weapons in his republic as "ours." He enjoys pointing out that Ukraine would be the third largest nuclear power on earth, after the U.S. and whatever is left of the U.S.S.R. Kazakhstan would be fourth. Belorussia would be in the next echelon with Britain, France and China...
...Leonid Kravchuk, the chairman of the parliament, leads a bloc of Communists who have broken with hard-liners in the party to form a coalition with moderates in the democratic opposition. He is negotiating with Moscow for a "renewed union" more like a common market than the federation Mikhail Gorbachev advocates. Kravchuk may quit the party to run in the republic's first presidential election this fall...
Virtually everyone I've talked to here complains that the U.S. has been slow to recognize, and support, what is happening to the U.S.S.R. "We understand that George Bush wants to save Gorbachev," says Vladimir Grinyov, an ethnic Russian and ex-Communist, who is both Kravchuk's deputy and his rival. "But to concentrate on Moscow is harmful to the devolution of power and the spread of democracy...
Horyn and others across the political spectrum hope Bush will visit Kiev after the superpower summit in Moscow later this year. Kravchuk is due in the U.S. in the fall to address the United Nations. All the Ukrainians I spoke to, even anticommunists, want him to get his own invitation to the White House. What matters in Kiev is not his party affiliation but his position as the leader of a large and important European nation. That should matter to Bush as well...