World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-12-08
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[0:03] From ABC News World News Sunday, here's
[0:08] Forest Sawyer. Good evening. Miky
[0:10] Gorbachoff's dreams of holding the
[0:12] Soviet Union together may have received
[0:14] a death blow today. The Union's three
[0:17] Slavic republics announced they are
[0:18] forming a separate Commonwealth of
[0:20] independent states. Russia, the Ukraine,
[0:23] and Vellar Russia control much of the
[0:26] Soviet Union's economic power. enough to
[0:29] challenge the rapidly fading strength of
[0:31] Gorbachoff's central government. Details
[0:33] from Moscow correspondent John Dunan.
[0:37] >> The chief state TV channel was halfway
[0:40] through its evening news when it got the
[0:42] first details of the agreement signed in
[0:44] Minsk. Quoting from it, the anchorwoman
[0:46] announced the Soviet Union as a subject
[0:49] of international and geopolitical
[0:50] reality no longer exists. That decision,
[0:54] whether it sticks or not, was made in
[0:56] one weekend by three men. Boris Yeltson,
[0:59] president of the Republic of Russia,
[1:01] Leoned Kravchuk, just elected president
[1:04] of the Ukraine, and Stannislav
[1:06] Shushkevich, leader of the Soviet
[1:08] Republic known as Gilarusia, which is
[1:10] where they all came together to meet.
[1:13] The territory of their commonwealth, as
[1:15] they declared it, now accounts for 70%
[1:17] of the present Soviet population and
[1:20] much of its oil and food. Open to other
[1:23] former republics to join. It will be
[1:25] headquartered not in Moscow, but in the
[1:27] Berosian capital, Minsk, snubbing not
[1:30] only Moscow, but also Soviet President
[1:32] Mikail Gorbachov and the strong central
[1:35] power he once stood for. Tonight,
[1:38] Gorbachov was on Ukrainian television
[1:40] stil