OUT OF THE KRAVCHUK'S MOUTH

Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk is disappointed by the independence of the Ukraine. Speaking in Parliament last week Mr. Kravchuk expressed his regrets at signing the Belovezhsk Agreement in 1991. This document had paved the way to the dismantlement of the USSR and subsequently to the Ukrainian independence. Former president of Russia Boris Yeltsin and former head of state of Belarus Stanislav Shushkevitch had also signed the Belovezhsk Agreement. Ukrainian nationalists got mad at Mr. Kravtchuk. Their anger is being exacerbated by continuous sliding of the Ukraine to the status of a failed state.