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On the 20th anniversary of Ukraine's declaration of independence from the Soviet Union, a former president of Poland has told Polish Radio that the nation still lags behind in developing modern, democratic institutions. Alexander Kwasniewski, president of Poland from 1995 to 2005, says that independence for Ukraine as a nation of 52 million people was “without historical precedent” when it was declared on 24 August 1991 as the Soviet Union was in the process of disintegrating. Read full story here.