On Dec. 6, the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, has overwhelmingly supported President Petro Poroshenko’s motion to not renew the country’s Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership with Russia when it comes up to its automatic prolongation. Now the treaty will expire on March 31, 2019, and won’t be renewed thereafter.
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Yuri Zoria: Ukraine finally scraps friendship treaty with Russia. But it won’t change much
Ukrainian members of parliament of the Verkhovna Rada, the Supreme Council of Ukraine, vote on a bill in Kyiv on Dec. 6, 2018, to terminate the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership with Russia from April 1, 2019.
