Apparatchik turned bear-baiter

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Leonid Kravchuk, president of the new independent state of Ukraine, came from a peasant family. After University he began working for the Ukrainian Communist Party and advanced steadily. He recently left the Communist Party, and, on a platform of non-extreme Ukrainian nationalism, he was elected to office with a clear majority. His political style has been likened to that of Gorbachev. His main objective is to prevent Ukraine from reverting to Russian domination and to safeguard its political and economic autonomy.

Politicians, Kravchuk, Leonid

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Long live Ruthenia!

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Pharmacologist Professor Ivan Turyanitsa, Prime Minister of the would-be nation state of Ruthenia, believes that those who regard themselves as 'Rusyns,' or 'Carpatho-Rusyns,' should have their own state, located in the boundaries of what is currently the Transcarpathian oblast of Ukraine. This state would have close connections with Ruthenians in Poland and Slovakia. Turyanitsa and his supporters believe that Ruthenian nationality should be an option in the Ukrainian census that is due to take place in 2001.

Government domestic functions, Ukraine, Politics NEC, Minorities, Politics

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