Leader Volodymyr Shcherbytsky suppressed press coverage of a 1986 disaster in this Soviet republic
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disaster in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the... [DOC] [TLE] gorbachev, chornobyl and the writers' challenge - Digital Text ... [PAR] some decentralization of economic decision-making to the republics ... also 
reproduced in the Soviet press, he denied that there were any political ... 
Shcherbytsky would be staying on as the Ukrainian Party leader.