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Article: Regional Tensions Trip Up Ukraine's Quest of Stability
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- The Washington Post
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- October 27, 1996
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Just as Ukraine seemed to be stabilizing its five-year
independent rule, a murky battle among political elites has
intensified -- raising new obstacles.
In the formal politics of laws and votes, Ukraine's reformist
president, Leonid Kuchma, has had much to celebrate since May.
Ukraine has overcome long delays to adopt its first post-Soviet
constitution, shrink inflation to manageable levels and introduce a
post-Soviet currency. Ukrainian officials and some Western
economists voice hope that Ukraine's crashing economy finally has
hit bottom and might begin growing next year.
But the political infighting that has bedeviled Kuchma's
two-year-old administration prompted the president ...