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Ukrainian opposition politician Arsenyi Yatseniuk criticised the country's President Viktor Yanukovych for having fallen in several traps, some of them "self-created". Yatseniuk, who was himself candidate for president in 2010, has created a party, which is in alliance with the political force of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Yatseniuk, who visited Brussels recently, recently created 'Front Zmin' (Party of Change), allied with Batkivshchyna, the party of Yulia Timoshenko, in view of the parliamentary elections, due on 28 October. The Party of Change calls itself ‘social democrat and social liberal’, but has not chosen a European party affiliation yet.

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