Parliament passes agreement that had led to revolution as it grants wide-ranging autonomy to eastern regionsUkraine’s parliament has ratified an agreement that will integrate the country with the European Union the same document which the former president Viktor Yanukovych backed out of signing last year, leading to protests that ended in revolution.Yanukovych’s downfall was met with the Russian annexation of Crimea and a Moscow-backed insurgency in east Ukraine that has cost 3,000 lives in recent months. After peace talks between Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, and Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, earlier this month, the Ukrainian parliament also passed legislation on …read more
Source: The Guardian
