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Issue #12 Mar. 20, 1997

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Budget crisis looms over fragile economy

Igor Greenwald is editor; the newspaper adopts Kyiv Post instead of Kiev Post; 35 percent of readers are Ukrainian. Ukraine dithers on 42-billion hryvnia budget for 1997. Kievskie Vedomosti editor-in-chief Yevhen Yakunov believes Luhansk correspondent Petro Shevchenko was murdered. Ukraine's abortion rate high at 56 per 1,000 women in 1995.