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Why Ukraine doesn't have nuclear weapons

Why Ukraine doesn't have nuclear weapons

by Liliane Bivings

When the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic adopted the Declaration of Sovereignty in July 1990 to gain greater rights and freedoms within the Soviet Union, ridding the country of its nuclear weapons was one of its top priorities. Ukraine had just suffered enormously from the Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident in

Eugene Czolij: The Budapest Memorandum – reality check

Eugene Czolij: The Budapest Memorandum – reality check

by Eugene Czolij

On 5 December 1994, at an OSCE conference in Budapest, Ukraine, the United States of America, the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland signed a Memorandum on Security Assurances in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

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