CRIMEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTS NEW SPEAKER.
CRIMEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTS NEW SPEAKER.
Crimea’s Supreme Soviet yesterday elected Vasily Kiselev as speaker in place of Yevhen Suprunyuk, who was forced to resign earlier in the week after pro-Russian deputies accused him of being too accommodating to Kiev. The 48-year-old Kiselev, a former farm director, is a member of the pro-Russian "Union" parliamentary faction. (Interfax, October 10) Under Crimea’s draft constitution, the speaker of parliament wields considerable power.
Ukrainian, NATO Warships in Joint Exercises
