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At the end of 1993, the Jewish population of the Ukraine was estimated at 245,000, which constituted 30.0% of the Jews of the former U.S.S.R. The percentage of the Ukrainian Jews among the Jews of the former U.S.S.R. declined from the census year, 1989, when it constituted 33.6%. There also have been higher estimates of the Jewish population of the Ukraine. The main Jewish centers have been Kiev, Kharkov (Kharkiv), Odessa, Lvov (Lviv) and Dnepropetrovsk.
In 1993 Leonid Kuchma was elected president of the Ukraine, which put an end to the moderate nationalist government in the country; Kuchma is regarded as a more pro-Russian leader, who favors closer ties with Moscow. The Black Sea fleet and the Crimean question continued to be, however, burning issues in the relations with Russia.
In April 1994, the Academies of Sciences in the Ukraine and in Israel signed an agreement on cooperation. In September 1995 Prime Minister Yitzhak paid an official visit to the Ukraine.
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* Historia: Ucrania
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