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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree appointing Ruslan Kniazevych as his representative in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

A corresponding decree was posted on the president’s Web site on Tuesday.

Kniazevych, born 1974 in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, is a Ukrainian
politician and lawyer. In 2012, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada of
Ukraine on the list of the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Association. He is
the secretary of the parliamentary committee on state building and
local government.