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BRUSSELS — New Ukraine president Victor Yanukovych visits Brussels Mar. 1, his first foreign trip, with European leaders hoping to hear that his pro-Russian reputation won't reverse Kyiv's recent turn to the West. The importance which the EU places on Ukraine was amply displayed last week when EU foreign and security affairs chief Catherine Ashton missed an EU defence ministers' meeting in order to attend Yanukovych's investiture in Kyiv. Read the story here.