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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has appointed MP Hanna Herman and MP Stanislav Skubashevsky, who previously worked in the presidential administration, as his independent advisors.

Yanukovych signed relevant decrees on Wednesday, according to the president’s Web site.

As reported, on November 23, 2012, Yanukovych dismissed his adviser and the head of the General Department for Humanitarian, Social and Political Matters of the Presidential Administration Hanna Herman and Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Stanislav Skubashevsky after they were elected people’s deputies of Ukraine.

Herman was 13th, and Skubashevsky 14th on the Regions Party’s election list in the October 28 parliamentary elections.