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...they had to have their own national armies. Most Soviet naval bases were in Russia, but Ukraine was quick to claim the Black Sea Fleet, which had its home port in Ukraine's Sevastopol. Without warning, Russia ordered the newest aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, to its port of Murmansk. Yeltsin later defended the transfer, noting that the Black Sea Fleet was "historically Russian." But he grudgingly conceded that Ukraine is entitled to "a share" of the Black Sea Fleet...
Officials in Washington and Western Europe make similar observations about Yeltsin. One of them says Yeltsin is "trying to impose at the republic level what he opposes at the national level," that is, centralized control of the vastness of Russia. The residents of Murmansk, the official argues, "don't want Yeltsin any more than Gorbachev telling them what to do." The leaders of other, smaller republics probably feel the same...
Yeltsin has skillfully blended government business and stump campaigning on his tour. In Murmansk, Petrozavodsk and Sverdlovsk, Yeltsin signed agreements between the Russian government and the local authorities that allowed the regions much greater control over their economies and foreign trade. In his standard stump speech, he has promised that local factories and other enterprises will be able to trade freely with foreign companies and will have to hand over to the Russian government only 25% of their profits. Mikhail Gorbachev's power-sharing program, which is still in the planning stage, will call for factories to give...
Boris Yeltsin insisted that he was only going to the Arctic region of Murmansk on a "business trip" last week, but he certainly looked and acted like a man running for office. The Russian populist donned a white coat to inspect a high-tech laboratory, reviewed black-uniformed columns of sailors and promised the crew of the nuclear missile cruiser Kirov that he would do everything possible to improve their living conditions. Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov toured the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, lending a sympathetic ear to the problems of defense workers at a chemical factory. Back...
...governing a disintegrating nation was difficult. Although Trotsky made peace with the Germans in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Berlin's price was the separation from Russia of Poland, the Baltic states and the Ukraine. British and French troops landed in Murmansk to keep Russian supplies out of German hands. Various anti-Bolshevik "White" armies sprang up in the south and in Siberia. Japanese and American troops landed in Vladivostok...