Person
Leonid Kravchuk
First President of independent Ukraine (1991–1994).
- Dates
- 10 Jan 1934 – 10 May 2022
- Also known as
- Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk
- Life 10 Jan 1934 – 10 May 2022
- head of Ukraine (President of Ukraine) 1991–1994
Leonid Kravchuk led Soviet Ukraine’s Communist Party, then took it to independence in 1991 and signed the Belovezha Accords for Ukraine.
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- Belovezha Accords signed for Ukraine Scholarship & press 12
Timeline 2 dates
- 10 Jan 1934 – 10 May 2022 Leonid Kravchuk
- 1991–1994 Leonid Kravchuk head of Ukraine
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Leonid Kravchuk, independent Ukraine's 1st president, dies, Associated Press, 10 May 2022.
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Kravchuk led Ukraine as its Communist Party boss in the waning years of the Soviet Union, and played a pivotal role in the demise of the USSR before holding the Ukrainian presidency from 1991 through 1994.
later that year joined with the leaders of Russia and Belarus to sign an agreement on Dec. 8, 1991, which formally declared that the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
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Stanislau Shushkevich, First Leader Of Independent Belarus, Dead At 87, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 4 May 2022.
Scholarship & press
On December 8, 1991, Shushkevich, then the chairman of parliament, met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk at a resort in a forest in western Belarus and signed the Belavezha Accords
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