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...center of a bitter territorial row between Russia and Ukraine that threatens to destroy the fragile Commonwealth of Independent States and make enemies out of two nuclear-armed nations. In the Crimean capital of Simferopol, ethnic Russians gather daily outside the local parliament building to accuse Ukrainian leaders of disregard for their right to self-determination. In the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, 400 miles away, thousands have converged in recent weeks to protest Moscow's "imperialist" designs on the Crimea, which is part of Ukraine but has a Russian majority. "Until we have independence, the Crimea will always...
Pierre Beregovoy, 66, the powerful Economics and Finance Minister, who was named to succeed her, is expected to restore some confidence in the party before parliamentary elections in March 1993. The son of a Ukrainian immigrant and a member of the Resistance during World War II, he is one of the few Socialist leaders from a working-class background...
Their relations deteriorated two weeks ago when Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk announced that he was halting the transfer of tactical nuclear weapons to Russia. Kiev had pledged to hand over all such weapons by July, but so far, only around half of the roughly 2,500 tactical weapons have been shipped. In Moscow, Boris Yeltsin retaliated by creating his own defense ministry, the essential precursor to a separate Russian army. Ukraine then refused to take any part in a unified command structure. A proposal to set up a group of military observers to help resolve ethnic conflicts was rejected...
...majority of the rescuers believe that the gift of goodness can be passed on. "It is like flowers growing in a certain soil," says Helena Melnyczuk, 71, who with her brother Orest, 67, and their father sheltered Jews in their house, across the street from a Ukrainian police station. "It is natural in every human being, but it must be nourished and cultivated." For that lesson alone, the rescuers deserve the world's gratitude...
...backs on the ruble. Ukraine will launch a new currency called the grivna this spring; Ukraine has made coupons for the money the sole legal tender in state-owned shops. Officially pegged at a rate of one coupon per ruble, the scrip fetches up to 13 rubles on the Ukrainian black market. Belarus intends to issue its own new currency in April, and Moldova and Kazakhstan are planning to print new money as well. Such defections will flood Russia with ever more rubles as the neighboring republics begin exchanging the shaky currency for their own coin of the realm...