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...Ukrainian rock group, Vika, will be performing at the Longy school of Music today in concert sponsored by the Harvard Ukrainian summer Institute...
...biggest, Russia and Ukraine, have been bitterly at odds over such issues as ownership of the 300-ship Black Sea Fleet and issuing rival currencies. Meeting at the resort town of Sochi last week, Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk took off their coats, put on their smiles and worked out an 18-point agreement. They pledged coordination of policies on currency and trade and reached a tentative compromise on dividing the fleet but sharing the bases. It was, said Kravchuk, "a fundamental turn in relations...
Yeltsin demanded an end to the bloodshed, and Kravchuk said he would support the Russian and Ukrainian secessionists if Moldova returned to Romania. Two days later, at a regional economic conference in Istanbul, Yeltsin and Moldovan President Mircea Snegur announced a cease-fire. Snegur said Moldova's parliament would examine ways to grant home rule to the Trans-Dniester region, where Russian and Ukrainian separatists are concentrated...
Even as the Black Sea Fleet dispute heads toward resolution, larger issues continue to strain ties between the two states -- including the overall future of the Crimea and Kiev's resistance to Russia's taking the lead on economic reforms. Specially printed Ukrainian coupons, designed as a temporary currency to phase out use of the Soviet ruble, circulate freely in the republic. In Yalta's shops, cashiers give change in a random mix of coupons and rubles that leaves the buyer guessing about the value of both...
Many Russians in the Crimea fear that a Ukrainian currency would cut them off completely from the Russian state and relegate them to second-class status in Ukraine. Many Ukrainians, meanwhile, guard their newly won sovereignty jealously and harbor deep suspicions about the giant neighbor to the east that ruled their nation for three centuries and now professes democratic principles. "Imperial tendencies are prevailing again in Russia," warns - Ukraine's Kryzhanovsky, "tendencies based on the law of might, not the law of reason...