By that time, Russia could not rescue its own parlous finances without cutting the republics adrift.
The republics' legislative regulation of ownership of land...and other natural resources must not impede the implementation of the Union's powers.
The republics also discussed a Ukraine suggestion to create an interstate clearing-bank, which would establish exchange rates between republican currencies.
They also agreed to drop the rouble as the internal trading currency as soon as the republics introduced separate currencies.
Republic legislation on the territory of the republics takes precedence in all question with the exception of those...ascribed to the Union's jurisdiction.
This support should extend to the disarming and destruction of such weapons in place, should the republics choose to adopt a nuclear-free status.
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Migrants from the republics of the north Caucasus and the post-Soviet countries of Central Asia have also spread more conservative interpretations of Islam.
From Phoenicia to Carthage, the republics of Venice and Genoa, to the Swiss Federation and Dutch Republic, riches have frequently arisen under decentralized republican government.
Milosevic told an Israeli newspaper that rebels in Macedonia threatened the unity of what remained of the Yugoslav federation -- the republics of Serbia and Montenegro.
Senior figures from Russia's 10 "closed nuclear cities", plus nuclear institutions in the republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine, are taking part in the Business English and Contract Negotiations course.
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Are there differences in agricultural policies among the Republics?
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This phenomenon has produced a generation of Arabs that knows little about the details and texture of their own history, especially the modern history of the republics, monarchies, and principalities in which they live today.
Second, the republics have already stated their willingess to cooperate in the control of nuclear weapons.... I don't think we should exaggerate this fear, and I don't think that we should be blackmailed by the threat.
Even as he strives to portray himself as a supporter of the Shatalin plan, Gorbachev has indicated that he also opposes another of its key elements -- the devolution of economic decision-making from the central authorities to the republics.
" He added, "Instead, the G-7 should help ensure that new economic and financial authority ceded by the republics to a reconfigured Moscow center be kept to an absolute minimum -- unlike the somewhat heavy-handed proposals of Grigory Yavlinsky and other All-Union officials.
Unfortunately, Western oil executives appear to be dealing exclusively with central authorities, and only focusing secondarily, if at all, on the governments of the republics that are appropriately seeking to take ownership of their own energy resources and the hard currency proceeds of their sales abroad.
But they are citizens of Russia, and Russian is the lingua franca among the various republics along the country's southern border.
Montenegro has always been a separate republic from Serbia, like all the other republics who seceded from the old Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
When the Baltic Assembly convened in May 1989, committees of economists, scientists, engineers, and technical experts from the three Baltic states organized to begin to ascertain the true economic linkages among the three republics and bilaterally with the Soviet Union.
To the east and west lie the Russian republics of North Ossetia and Karachayevo-Cherkessia.
The Yugoslav national bank in Belgrade has hit back by blocking all payments between the two republics.
Three years ago an estimated 40, 000 people had access to the internet in the Yugoslav republics of Serbia and Montenegro.
It envisages creating a pared-down federal legislature, with only limited powers, in which the two republics would be equally represented.
As a result, all the new republics were saddled with large minorities.
Russia is threatening to pull out of the agreement if former republics of the Soviet Union are invited to join in the future.
Among them: a common desire to evolve from a command to a market economy, a mutual interest in containing Islam-fired nationalism in the new republics of Central Asia, and growing economic ties.
Gorbachev would follow through with the Shatalin-Yavlinsky plan for a 500 day transformation of the USSR, including a major devolution of political and economic decision-making power from the center to the individual republics.
He believed the new republics needed strong government.
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