Quotable notes

"When President Leonid Kuchma comes on a trip to Ashgabat, it means that winter is nearing."

- Turkmenistan's president, Saparmurat Niyazov, at a press conference on October 4 after he and Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma signed a deal on Turkmen gas supplies to Ukraine. (Quoted by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service and cited by RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report.)

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, November 5, 2000, No. 45, Vol. LXVIII

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