Word: leonid
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...outlaws home searches without a court order, protects the privacy of mail and telephone communications and explicitly forbids the use of torture. But words on paper do not make a law-governed state. Russians remember grandiloquent provisions on human rights contained in constitutions written for Stalin in 1936 and Leonid Brezhnev in 1977 -- rights they never enjoyed. Without stable government institutions in place to enforce the constitution, this document might suffer the same fate...
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...
...State 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...
...sharp change of position, President Leonid Kravchuk said that Ukraine may retain the 46 modern SS-24 nuclear missiles it inherited from the former Soviet Union...
Ukraine President Leonid Kravchuk, in dire need of cash, has agreed to turn over his country's nuclear warheads and half-share of the Black Sea fleet to Russia. But the Ukraine parliament may try to block the deal. Ukraine owes Russia about $6 billion...