Word: ukrainians
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...area" to come under Serb attack, commandeered 370 U.N. peacekeepers' weapons and threatened to take them hostage unless NATO staged airstrikes to protect the town.Rebel Serbs, who perfected the "human shield" tactic in previous standoffs with international troops, said they would respond to any NATO airstrikes by shooting at Ukrainian peacekeepers in a base they already control. (NATO planes made a show of flying over Zepa for several hours Sunday but the U.N. has not requested their presence since.) The Serbs, who pressed to within a mile of Zepa today,plan to overwhelm the mountain enclave and then march...
...Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma promised today that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant would be closed by 2000. Representatives from the 15-nation European Union and G-7 countries visiting Kiev called the decision "a radical change in Ukrainian policy" given the former Soviet country's grave economic difficulties. Previously, Kiev had refused to consider closing the plant, most of which has been enclosed in an unstable, radioactive sarcophagus since the 1986 disaster...
Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian PhilologyMichael S. Flier, who teaches the linguistics ofthe Czech language, agreed...
...During the hard-liners' attempted coup of 1991, for example, he led a paratroop squad that protected Yeltsin's headquarters, the White House. Tiraspol is the capital of Trans-Dniestr, a region of Moldova, one of the former Soviet republics. The inhabitants of Trans-Dniestr are largely Russian and Ukrainian, and for several years they have sought independence from Moldova. Lebed was sent to the region in 1992 to take command of the Fourteenth Army, and he intervened in the conflict between Moldovans and the Russian-speaking population. He has remained in Tiraspol overseeing a wary peace...
Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian PhilologyMichael S. Flier, who blasted the original reportat the faculty meeting, also said he was "verypleased...