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Article: UKRAINE: UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS SEIZE COMMUNIST PARTY HEADQUARTERS.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- March 12, 2000
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Eleven radical nationalists from the previously unknown youth organization Independent Ukraine seized the Communist Party headquarters in Kyiv on 9 March and spread gasoline inside the building, threatening to set it on fire if their demands are not met. In particular, the group, whose members were aged 19 to 24, demanded the "decolonization" of Ukraine, the withdrawal of Russia's Black Sea Fleet from Crimea, a ban on the Communist Party of Ukraine, and Ukraine's withdrawal from the CIS. The building was cordoned off ...