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Moscow - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has congratulated Mykola Azarov on the latter's appointment as Ukraine's prime minister. 

“I am ready to continue our joint work,” Medvedev said in a message of congratulations to Azarov.

He said he was confident that the “mutually-profitable Russian-Ukrainian cooperation will progress dynamically along all key avenues – trade-economic, industrial, scientific and technological, humanitarian and cultural – in the interests of both countries.”