Ukrainian lawmakers Tuesday endorsed an association agreement with the European Union, making a decisive turn in favor of closer relations with Western neighbors in spite of the 10-month-old conflict that possibility has ignited with Russia.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko must first sign the autonomy bill and bring it into force, Alexander Zakharchenko, the self-proclaimed prime minister of the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic, told Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency. …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
