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Ukraine might have recently decided to strengthen its financial and economic ties with Russia, but the European Union (EU) should not abandon the country, the country's opposition leader told CNBC. "What's very important for my country and the only we can move on is to sign an association agreement [with the EU], to implement real reforms and to attract investors [as well as] to reform the judiciary and tackle rampant corruption and to be a part a part of the European world," Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Leader of the "All Ukrainian Union Fatherland" party, said.

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