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Top Russian parliamentary officials have blasted as “old psychology” the attempts of certain European politicians to use pressure and interference in order to influence Ukraine’s choice of future cooperation with the EU.“We see certain European Union officials quite harshly meddling with Ukraine’s internal affairs and applying unprecedented pressure regarding the signing or not signing of the association agreement with the EU,” State Duma speaker Sergey Naryshkin told reporters on Thursday.

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