Leader Volodymyr Shcherbytsky suppressed press coverage of a 1986 disaster in this Soviet republic
While supporting Russification 
policies,... [DOC] [TLE] ethnic politics and ethnic conflict in the ussr and the post ... - JStor [PAR] management of the Communist Party, which suppressed interethnic ... as 
president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, one of the world's two ... 
Party leader since 1985, and also as president since ...... Volodymyr 
Shcherbytsky, reversed Shelest's policies, ...... relaxation in the press since 1986, 
the first appearance.