Word: kravchuk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rapprochement, they are looking to Kuchma, a former director of the world's largest missile factory, whose production lines once cranked out giant nuclear-delivery systems "like sausages," as Nikita Khrushchev boasted in the 1950s. The erstwhile industrialist won 52% of the vote, inflicting a shocking defeat on Leonid Kravchuk, who led Ukraine in breaking ties with Moscow, then spent the next three years quarreling with Russia, thwarting reform and cultivating ties with the West...
Leonid Kuchma, former director of the world's largest missile factory, defeated incumbent Leonid Kravchuk in Ukraine's presidential election. An advocate of economic integration with Russia, Kuchma said he would honor the pledge made by his predecessor to give up Ukraine's nuclear arsenal, the world's third largest...
...possibility of former Warsaw Pact countries' joining NATO gradually over an unspecified period. The President toured Prague with Czech President Vaclav Havel and then arrived in Moscow, where he urged Russians to continue reforming their economy. In the Kremlin, Clinton signed an agreement with Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kravchuk, the President of Ukraine, dealing with Ukraine's nuclear weapons...
Just one day after President Clinton telephoned him to express concern over the continued reluctance of Ukraine to turn over its nuclear weapons to Russia, Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk repeated his country's hard-line position regarding the 1,600-warhead arsenal it inherited from the former Soviet Union. Kravchuk said Ukraine would "demand material compensation" in exchange for giving them up. He wants $3 billion...
...Warren Christopher signed an agreement with Ukraine that will give the former Soviet republic at least $175 million to help pay for the dismantling of all its nuclear weapons. Christopher pledged an additional $155 million in economic aid, subject to congressional approval. The agreement beween Christopher and President Leonid Kravchuk must be ratified by Ukraine's parliament, a highly uncertain fate...