In September Oleksandr Karpov of the Popular Democratic Party replaced Kravchuk as the leader of the right-centrist majority, but by that time the number of deputies committed to the faction had declined to 171.
In a tragic turn, Yoshiki Sasai, a highly respected stem cell scientist who was a co-author of the papers and CDB deputy director, committed suicide on 5 August.
A majority of Ukraine's Supreme Council deputies are committed to recovering Russian-annexed Crimea and the separatist-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk regions, while Putin's proxies in eastern Ukraine say they will fight to the end to keep the territory they have seized and proclaimed independent from Kiev's rule.
My favourite year was 2004, when I was working in tandem with Gordon Thomson, now editor of Time Out but then my energetic and aggressively committed deputy.
When Vincent Foster, Mr. Clinton's deputy White House counsel, committed suicide in 1993, he left behind a note accusing the Wall Street Journal's editorial page of lying.
A1 Ebbers Trial Nears End In their closing argument, federal prosecutors accused Bernard J. Ebbers, the former chief executive of WorldCom, of being caught in a "perfect storm of corruption" that led him to order deputies to commit a multibillion-dollar fraud.
Or on whether Vincent Foster, the deputy White House counsel, actually committed suicide?
A former deputy attorney general also committed suicide, in New Jersey last year, after being charged with laundering $9 million in traffickers' bribes.
Donald Trump, who is the most prominent conspiracy theorist in American politics today, brought up the notion that Vince Foster, Bill Clinton's deputy White House counsel, who committed suicide in the summer of 1993 after a bout with depression, was actually murdered to protect the Clintons.
Responding to a series of questions from a radio talk show host here this morning, the first lady said she had never been unfaithful to President Clinton and had never had a sexual relationship with Vincent W. Foster Jr., a close friend and former deputy White House counsel who committed suicide.
