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Vladimir Lukin, who is about to become ambassador to Washington, has impeccable reformist credentials: as a young journalist in Czechoslovakia in 1968, he bravely opposed the Soviet invasion. Now he is urging patience on the part of everyone -- Ukrainians, Russians and outsiders. "An enlightened and balanced championship of both Russian and Ukrainian interests," he says, "is the only weapon against Zhirinovsky and the extreme nationalists." Translation: if Yeltsin yields too much, too fast to Kiev, he will be swept away by a coalition of demagogues bent on exploiting the hardships of the citizenry and die-hard believers...
Yeltsin has already conceded sovereignty to Ukraine in principle. Two months ago, he and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, along with the leaders of nine other Soviet republics, abolished the U.S.S.R. In its place they formed the Commonwealth of Independent States, which is a misnomer wrapped in a contradiction inside a political fiction. After living for so long under the Kremlin, the new states really are not independent at all. Their economies and infrastructures will take years, even decades, to disentangle...
Considering the outcome of both the men's and the pairs' events, spectators could hardly tell whether they were witnessing the birth or the death of a golden era of skating among the former Soviets. For Petrenko, a Ukrainian, the accomplishment carried a special distinction, since the Soviet Union had never achieved an Olympic gold medal in the men's or women's competition...
Lloyd said that the splintering of the Soviet Union has created frictions between the new republics. "In a single stroke of the pen," said Lloyd, "Nikita Kruschev signed over the fleet to Ukrainian control. Back then, it didn't matter...
...could anyone live without hearing the Ukrainian National anthem for the first time...