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Early elections in Ukraine set for December 7
Oct 9, 2008, 11:25 GMT
Kiev/Moscow - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko set December 7 as the date for fresh elections in an announcement on his website on Thursday.
Yushchenko dissolved parliament in a speech broadcast Wednesday evening and called for fresh elections.
Following the collapse of the pro-Western coalition of Yushchenko's party and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc, it is hoped that fresh elections will offer a way out of the current political impasse.
Ukrainians last voted for a new parliament as recently as September 2007.
The former Soviet republic has been in turmoil since the Orange Revolution of 2004.
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