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In the nearly three decades since gaining its independence, Ukraine has been a country constrained by a closed, non-transparent energy sector. As the country seeks to improve ties with the West and ultimately integrate into the European Union, it has finally embarked upon a set of reforms aimed at creating a more transparent, market-oriented energy sector under incumbent president Petro Poroshenko.

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