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	Leonid Kravchuk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kravchuk was born in Velyky Zhytyn (now Volyns'ka oblast'), which was part of Poland at the time of his birth, but became part of Ukraine after World War II when he was a child.
		Kravchuk ran for a second term as President in 1994, but was defeated by his former Prime Minister, Leonid Kuchma.
		Leonid Kravchuk is the author of books dealing with his career and Politics of Ukraine (some of them were translated into English).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leonid_Kravchuk (843 words)

	Encyclopedia: Leonid Kravchuk
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		Leonid Kuchma Leonid Danylovych Kuchma (Леонід Кучма) (born August 9, 1938) was the second President of Ukraine from July 19, 1994 to January 23, 2005.
		Mr Kravchuk describes the Soviet leader of 1991 as an overbearing politburo dinosaur, who deludes himself that hectoring phone calls and bombastic speechifying might be enough to prevent Ukraine and other republics splitting away.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Leonid-Kravchuk (2398 words)

	AllRefer.com - Leonid Makarovich Kravchuk (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Leonid Makarovich Kravchuk, Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biographies
		Leonid Makarovich Kravchuk[liunyEt´ mukAr´uvyich krAf´chook] Pronunciation Key, 1934–;, Ukrainian leader, president of Ukraine (1991–94), b.
		He failed to win a second presidential term in 1994 and was succeeded by Leonid Kuchma; Kravchuk was subsequently elected to parliament.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/KravchukL.html (280 words)

	RUSNET.NL :: Encyclopedia :: K :: Kravchuk, Leonid
		Leonid Kravchuk, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Ukraine Academy of Social Sciences, was the deputy secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine.
		Kravchuk was elected head of the Ukrainian Parliament (Supreme Rada) in July, 1990 and president of the Ukraine in December, 1991.
		He lost the presidency to Leonid Kuchma in a run-off election in the summer of 1994, and was elected to the Ukraine Parliament in September the same year.
	www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/k/print/kravchuk.shtml (183 words)

	Ukrainian Peace Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Leonid Kravchuk has achieved the international recognition of Ukraine as the independent state, strengthening it's prestige on the World scene.
		Leonid Kravchuk has organized an efficient institutes of executive authority which have taken under the control and have provided a constitutional order in Ukraine, functioning of an economic complex.
		At Leonid Kravchuk's direct participation bases of legislative base of the new state, its future constitution for the first time accepted in territory of the former USSR laws on national minorities, freedom of worship have been created.
	www.peacecouncil.org.ua /en/prezidia.html (504 words)

	Ukraine Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Leonid Kravchuk said at a press conference that high-ranking politicians such as Viktor Yushchenko should be more controlled in their statements.
		Kravchuk recalled that during a parliamentary session Yushchenko called the SDPU (O) a "fascist party." Kravchuk admitted that the parliamentary deputy can succumb to stress, but emphasized that such proclamations are simply unacceptable.
		Kravchuk said that the prime minister is a man of his word who is able to combine the interests of all regions of Ukraine to find the best possible solution to any problem.
	www.ukrnow.com /content/view/250/2 (1146 words)

	Torontonians greet former President Leonid Kravchuk (08/31/97)
		Kravchuk said he was happy to celebrate the sixth anniversary of Ukraine's independence in Canada because of all the help this community has given Ukraine.
		Kravchuk added that most of the deputies assumed that sovereignty meant sovereignty within the USSR, and said it was amazing that within a year so much had changed that Ukraine was able to achieve its independence.
		Kravchuk said December 1, 1991, was the happiest day of his life, not because he was elected president, but because both he and then-president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, were wrong in predicting the outcome of the referendum.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1997/359707.shtml (623 words)

	BHHRG
		Leonid Kravchuk, the leader of the parliamentary faction of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united), has accused President Viktor Yuschenko of receiving financing for his election campaign from Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky.
		Kravchuk said that USD 15 million is not all the money since some part of it was transferred to accounts and the other taken across the border.
		Now Kravchuk wants Yuschenko to say whether the report was true, and if yes, what commitments his team has in relation to Berezovsky in exchange for his financing and how they promised to thank the businessman.
	www.bhhrg.org /mediaDetails.asp?ArticleID=515 (384 words)

	Ukraine Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		President Leonid Kuchma, while on a two-day working visit to Dnipropetrovsk region, reiterated his forecast on Wednesday about the upcoming election as likely to be the dirtiest and most amoral election in independent Ukraine's history.
		As Leonid Kuchma stressed, Ukrainian voters will elect the President of independent Ukraine, whose duties are specified in the Constitution, rather than some zar, which makes it the candidates' imperative duty not to break Ukraine's stability, thanks to which Ukraine is among the world's advanced nations.
		As Leonid Kuchma further noted, many attendants of the recent CIS Summit in Astana (Kazakhstan) were surprised to learn about Ukraine's economic headways as having been achieved through developing high technologies, rather than relying on exports of raw materials.
	www.ukrnow.com /content/view/962/2 (480 words)

	Kravchuk, Leonid
		After the suspension of the UCP in August 1991, Kravchuk became an advocate of independence and market-centred economic reform.
		He was, however, defeated by former prime minister Leonid Kuchma in the July 1994 presidential elections.
		Born in Velykyi Zhytyn, Kravchuk was educated at the Kiev State University and the Academy of Social Sciences in Moscow.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0037060.html (205 words)

	Build Ukraine
		Leonid Kuchma, head of one of the world's largest ballistic missile plants, was approved by parliament today as Ukraine's new prime minister.
		Kuchma, who was nominated for the post by President Leonid Kravchuk, takes over the government nearly two weeks after the forced resignation of unpopular premier Vitold Fokin.
		Kravchuk praised Kuchma today as a technocrat capable of leading the former Soviet republic out of economic crisis.
	www.artukraine.com /buildukraine/cuchma92.htm (179 words)

	Religion in Eastern Europe
		The proclamation of Ukraineâs independence and election of Leonid Kravchuk as a first president of Ukraine in December 1991, in turn established the presidential administration as the main generator of ideas in the realm of church‑state relations.
		By swearing his oath on the Peresopnytsia gospel, Leonid Kuchma was in effect continuing the tradition begun by his predecessor, Leonid Kravchuk, who had taken his oath on the same gospel following his election as president in 1991.
		Leonid Kuchma sought electoral support primarily among the culturally Russified electorate of southern and eastern Ukraine, often playing up to the pro-ÐRussian attitudes of a portion of that electorate.
	www.georgefox.edu /academics/undergrad/departments/soc-swk/ree/plokhy.html (4412 words)

	Oxford Russian Society Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kravchuk, who as its first President took Ukraine to independence will be sharing his memories of these events as well as his thoughts on current political situation in Ukraine.
		Leonid Kravchuk was born in 1934 in the North-Western Ukraine.
		By 1988 Dr. Kravchuk was the head of the propaganda department of the Communist party of Ukraine and by 1990 the Second Secretary of its Central Committee.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~russoc/2003mt.shtml (616 words)

	Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk Biography / Biography of Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk Biography
		Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk (born 1934) was president of the Ukraine (1991-1994), the first ever to be elected by direct popular vote and the first president of this newly independent country.
		Leonid Kravchuk was born January 10, 1934, in the village of Velykyi Zhytyn, in the Rivne district into a peasant family.
		Kravchuk completed the Rivne Cooperative Technical School and in 1958 graduated with a diploma from the economics department of Kiev State University.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-leonid-makarovych-kravchuk (250 words)

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		KIEV, Ukraine -- Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian ex-president and now head of the United Social Democrats parliamentary faction, believes that incumbent President Viktor Yushchenko cannot effectively run the country, and that early elections are quite probable in Ukraine.
		According to Kravchuk, the nation “quickly got tired of the new rulers.” “The management system of the country has been destroyed, the personnel policy has developed into the orange-colour absurdity, and a management chaos is becoming typical of all the spheres of life.
		Kravchuk reminded that Ukraine had experience of early presidential elections.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=10007474&postID=112610336730030728 (378 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Ukrainian memories of the USSR's death
		But only the next month he records having prolonged discussions with Yeltsin and the leader of the Belarusian republic, Stanislav Shushkevich, in which they agreed "that the USSR was doomed, and should be replaced by a temporary non-state structure".
		The Soviet leader continued to bawl down the telephone at Kravchuk, refusing to face facts until he finally resigned on 25 December.
		When Kravchuk reminded him that the founders of the CIS had agreed to co-ordinate their reforms, in order to minimise the disruption to their interlinked economies, he got the Kremlin brush-off.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1730988.stm (741 words)

	Connie Bruck: George Soros buys Ukraine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Upon Ukraine's declaration of independence later in 1991, Leonid Kravchuk did become president of Ukraine, but in the presidential elections of 1994, was narrowly defeated by Leonid Kuchma through George Soros intervention.
		Perhaps because Kravchuk was highly intelligent, and a mesmerizing public speaker, with Kuchma unable to reach the same level in either category.
		Leonid Kravchuk, then chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, attended the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 1991.
	www.ukar.org /soros01.html (2774 words)

	NCSJ - Former Ukrainian, Belarusian Leaders on Dissolution of USSR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kravchuk dismissed the rumors circulating especially among post-Soviet communists that Yeltsin was talked into signing the Belavezha Agreement after he had too much to drink.
		Kravchuk underscored the impact of Ukraine's independence referendum on the adoption of the Belavezha Agreement.
		The same day, Kravchuk was elected as the first president of independent Ukraine with some 63 percent of the vote.
	www.ncsj.org /AuxPages/121001RFERL.shtml (780 words)

	Build Ukraine
		Kravchuk play a central role in the demise of the boundlessly evil Soviet empire, he also put his country on a course where today, the rights of all Ukrainians are respected, regardless of their national origin.
		There are those who say that Kravchuk's decision to put Ukraine on a nuclear-free course was a mistake.
		As far as I'm concerned, though, President Kravchuk made some unprecedented and very courageous decisions, including the one to do away with nuclear weapons from the territory of Ukraine.
	www.artukraine.com /buildukraine/kravchuk2.htm (1130 words)

	AllRefer.com - Leonid Danylovych Kuchma (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Leonid Danylovych Kuchma[liunyEt´ dunyE´luvich kooch´mA] Pronunciation Key, 1938–, Ukrainian politician, president of Ukraine (1994–;).
		In 1994, he defeated the incumbent, Leonid Kravchuk, to win the presidency.
		Kuchma initiated some free-market reforms in his economically struggling nation and was successful at gaining Western support and funds for Ukraine, but the country has suffered from a declining economy dominated by huge state-run industries.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/KuchmaLeo.html (264 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Profile: Leonid Kuchma
		Leonid Kuchma was born in 1938 in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine.
		Over the last three years, Leonid Kuchma has shown himself increasingly intolerant of criticism, especially in the electronic media, who say they have become the target of abuse and harassment.
		But suggestions by the US that Leonid Kuchma has been involved in approving the illegal sale of radar system to Iraq (in violation of UN sanctions) look like destroying any political legitimacy he has left.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/2283925.stm (643 words)

	Leonid Kravchuk: "A president who contravene Constitution is not a president" :: Charter'97 :: News :: 17/12/2004
		Leonid Kravchuk: "A president who contravene Constitution is not a president" :: Charter'97 :: News :: 17/12/2004
		The first president of the independent Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk in his interview to Radio Svoboda commented on the referendum carried out in Belarus at which Lukashenka proposed to lift the presidential two-term limit.
		As soon as he contravenes the Constitution and the law, he ceases to be a president,” told Leonid Kravchuk.
	www.charter97.org /eng/news/2004/12/17/kravchuk (365 words)

	Kuchma, Leonid Danylovych -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In the Ukrainian presidential elections of July 1994, Leonid Kuchma achieved a surprising victory over the incumbent--and first--Ukrainian president, Leonid Kravchuk, by sweeping the industrial cities of eastern Ukraine and the Crimea and dividing the vote in central Ukraine.
		In the liberated atmosphere of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring), he was vilified for the shocking decline of the Soviet economy and for the rampant cronyism that had bloated the Communist party.
		Massine was born Leonid Fedorovich Miassin in Moscow, Russia.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9115376 (592 words)

	Ukraine's Kravchuk: Russian Oligarch Funded Revolution - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kravchuk said he had seen bank documents showing the transfer of more than $15 million from businesses owned by Berezovskii to the election campaign of President Yushchenko during the Orange Revolution.
		Kravchuk cited conversations with Berezovskii and with unnamed Ukrainian intelligence agency officials as proof of the charge.
		Kravchuk is a member of a parliament faction hostile to Yushchenko.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/9/2B8AD4F5-AC12-4CAA-ACC6-EDA29696A7DE.html (131 words)

	Ukraine Paves Way for Further Disarmament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk said Thursday that all short-range nuclear missiles on his territory have been removed to Russian soil, paving the way for dismantlement of such atomic weapons by the end of the decade.
		Kravchuk, who said Wednesday morning at the White House he had no such information, subsequently received a report from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense affirming that the transfer has been completed.
		In a news conference at the National Press Club, Kravchuk said that some tactical nuclear weapons remain on the ships of the Black Sea fleet, the control of which is in dispute between Russia and Ukraine.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V112/N26/ukraine.26w.html (561 words)

	Kommersant: First President of Ukraine Has Copied Names of KGB Agents Ready at Hand
		Leonid Kravchuk, faction leader at the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (United) and first president of Ukraine keeps a complete list of names of deputies, who used to work for the KGB in time of the former Soviet Union.
		Kravchuk “thumbed through them, copied them but thought he would be always tempted to use them, should he have them at hand” and returned the files to Galushko.
		Kravchuk referred to the Internet as a source of the data and called for detailed investigation, advocating for presidential impeachment if the information is confirmed.
	www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=610281 (330 words)

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