Ukraine Prime Minister Quits
Conservative Prime Minister Vitaly Masol resigned Wednesday in a long-awaited step that reformers greeted as the removal of a major impediment to liberalizing this country’s Soviet-style economy.
President Leonid D. Kuchma named Yevhen Marchuk--first deputy prime minister and chief security official--as acting premier.
In recent months, Masol has publicly criticized Kuchma’s approach to healing the economy--moves that have the International Monetary Fund’s backing--and found himself isolated within his own government.
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