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...established himself not only as the leader of the Russian Federation but also as the principal spokesman for the eight other republics that were willing to remain autonomous (or "sovereign") members of a loose Soviet commonwealth and as the champion of the six republics -- the three Baltics, Moldavia, Armenia and Georgia -- that wanted complete independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Origins: Prelude to a Putsch | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

Some kind of union treaty will be signed, creating a new country in place of the old Soviet Union, and at least six republics -- Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Ukraine, Moldavia and Georgia -- may remain outside it. All three Baltic states have formally declared their independence. On Saturday, the Ukraine's parliament did the same, though it also called for a referendum on the question in December. Gorbachev had been trying to prevent Baltic secession by winking at the use of force and insisting on drawn-out legal procedures. Now he can hardly order the discredited army or Interior Ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Upheaval: Desperate Moves | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

...disingenuous. While free to choose where they live, poorer Soviet Jews as well as native Israelis are being lured to the territories by special tax breaks and heavily subsidized mortgages. "We'd like to live somewhere else, but we can't afford to," says Boris Gamov, who emigrated from Moldavia seven months ago with his wife Ulga, and now rents a three-room caravan in a Gaza settlement for $40 a month. "We simply have no choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Good Life in Gaza | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

...Sept. 21, the first step in the five-year process decreed by Moscow for formal secession. Meanwhile, though torn by violent ethnic clashes, Armenia is actually carrying out one of the reforms proposed by Yeltsin. The republic has sold 65% of its agricultural land to private farmers. Georgia and Moldavia have been too preoccupied by their own ethnic conflicts to do much in the way of economic reform, but they have made it clear that they also want out of the Union -- and in a lot less than five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Boris Looks Westward | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

...Communist Party Central Committee plenum, Gorbachev invited the leaders of nine of the 15 Soviet republics, including Russia's maverick chief, Boris Yeltsin, to a conference at a secluded dacha in the woods outside Moscow. The six republics that are bent on immediate independence -- Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldavia, Georgia and Armenia -- were not asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Why Are These Men Smiling? | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

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