Word: kravchuk
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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...candidates in an accompanying presidential election, including front-runner Leonid Kravchuk, have said the referendum will lead to full independence for the Ukraine and pledged not to sign Gorbachev's Union Treaty...
Soldiers at five of the six bases supported Kravchuk for president, giving him 49.7 percent to 70 percent of their votes. His closest challenger, Vyacheslav Chornovil, was leading only at the Kiev base with 44.6 percent of the votes...
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...
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...