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A study of the transition to Ukraine's post-Soviet parliament and president and the new policies recently introduced. Details parliamentary and presidential elections which dominated Ukraine during 1994 and their policy outcomes, and discusses relations between the Crimea and Ukraine, the adoption of Ukrainian and Crimean constitutions, the Ukrainian path to a market economy, and new trends in Ukraine's foreign and defense policies. Of interest to students, journalists, business people, policy makers, and academics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Ukraine under Kuchma: Political Reform, Economic Transformation and Security Policy in Independent Ukraine is the first survey of recent developments in post-soviet Ukraine. The book covers in an in-depth manner the entire range of key developments since the 1994 parliamentary and presidential elections, the first elections held in post-soviet Ukraine. The new era ushered in by these elections led to Ukraine's launch of radical economic and political reforms which aim to domestically dismantle soviet power within Ukraine, stabilise relations with the separatist Crimean region and normalise relations with Russia and the West.
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