Quotable notes

"The declaration of [Ukraine's] state sovereignty, which was adopted 10 years ago, during the existence of the USSR, is not an ordinary document. Do not think that it was easy for me to press the button during the voting [in the Parliament]. I was pondering which button to press."

- President Leonid Kuchma, as quoted by Interfax on July 16 and reported by RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report. Mr. Kuchma was a people's deputy when the Ukrainian SSR's Supreme Soviet passed the Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine on July 16, 1990.

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