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Petro Oleksandrovich Poroshenko, a pro-European, billionaire confectioner, was sworn in as the fifth president of Ukraine on Saturday.Mr. Poroshenko was installed in a solemn ceremony at the Ukrainian Parliament in Kiev after months of civil unrest that forced out the former president Viktor F. Yanukovych.

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