Security forces begin crackdown on organized crime in Crimea

From: The Ukrainian Weekly | Date: February 14, 1999 | Copyright information

Ukrainian Weekly, The
02-14-1999
Security forces begin crackdown on organized crime in Crimea

By Nathan Hodge

Special to The Ukrainian Weekly

KYIV -- With the passage of a new Constitution for the Crimean autonomous republic on December 23, 1998, the peninsula seemed poised for a reduction in tensions. President Leonid Kuchma officially presented the document to the Crimean leadership in a signing ceremony on February 5, but the celebration was over-shadowed by a public campaign of arrests aimed at Crimean officials.

The adoption of the Constitution was an acrimonious process. The region's ...

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