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Article: Ukraine: a question of survival. (political and economic crisis; U.S. policy towards Ukraine)
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- The National Interest
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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TWO YEARS AFTER its rebirth as an independent state, Ukraine is struggling to survive. The economy is in shambles; Crimea is a political tinderbox; given the results of the parliamentary elections in the Spring of 1994, the prospects for effective government remain uncertain; and Moscow's intentions toward Kiev, at best, are unclear. The very existence of Ukraine is in jeopardy.
In the West, assessments of Ukraine's prospects range from outright pessimism--notably embodied in a recent CIA National Intelligence Estimate which apparently forecasts that economic failure is likely to result in the splintering of eastern from western Ukraine--to more hopeful assessments ...