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Ukraine's Acting Prime Minister and newly elected premier Mykola Azarov has said that expanding economic freedoms and bolstering energy independence will be among his government's priorities. 

Other priorities are developing competition, protecting ownership rights, improving the judicial system, creating new jobs, launching infrastructure projects, boosting agricultural production and reducing imports, Azarov said in his speech in the Verkhovna Rada on Thursday.