On the 27th of June this year, Ukraine (and Georgia and Moldova) signed the Association Agreement with the European Union, to govern policy convergence and later trade. Its supporters see it as setting the seal on a new era of east-west relations.
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Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko holds a newly voted Ukrainian law about the ratification of the Ukraine-EU pact on Sept. 16, 2014 in Verkhovna Rada.
