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What position does Leonid Danylovych Kuchma hold?

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Formerly the manager of the Soviet Union's largest missile factory, he was a member of the Ukrainian Communist party's central committee (1981-91). Elected (1991) to Ukraine's supreme soviet, he served (1992-93) as prime minister after Ukrainian independence. In 1994, he defeated the incumbent, Leonid Kravchuk , to win the presidency.

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