TOP UKRAINIAN BANKER ASSASSINATED.

Ukraine’s Interbank Currency Exchange Chairman, Vadim Hetman, was assassinated last night at the entrance to his home in downtown Kyiv. The authorities have no immediate explanation for the murder. (Itar-Tass, April 23) A wealthy financier, Hetman was also a powerful political figure and headed the Group of Independent Deputies in the Ukrainian parliament. (Details in tomorrow’s Monitor)

MORE FEDERAL AID PROPOSED FOR RUSSIA’S DISPUTED KURIL ISLANDS.