That's a great achievementcompared to it, what price the old arguments about sovereignty of form?
Encouraged by the hope of greater sovereignty, they are trying to retrieve their culture and restore forgotten traditions.
Croatia, which elected a non-Communist government last year, wants greater sovereignty and a free-market economy with Western help.
As a republic, the region has greater sovereignty than other areas of Russia in determining local policies and procedures.
And while economic concerns have for now brushed aside the burning issues linked to Quebec's drive for greater sovereignty or independence, they are still lurking.
This concern is only heightened by the steady growth of organized Ukrainian nationalism and of calls here for greater sovereignty, even independence.
It will need to accept greater Palestinian sovereignty over such important matters as water rights unless it wants to have a homicidal, desperate neighbor forever.
To refuse his offer would undercut their own demands for greater sovereignty.
Mr. Gorbachev has been pressed by the republics for greater sovereignty and has promised them far more initiative in national recovery.
The Russian federation includes dozens of ethnic homelands, many of them itching for greater sovereignty.