KIEV – Coalition talks intensify Tuesday between the pro-Western winners of Ukraine’s parliamentary poll, while attacks by pro-Russian insurgents in the east highlight the obstacles to their promises of peace and deeper EU ties.The day after pro-West and moderate nationalist forces backing President Petro Poroshenko scored a big win in Sunday’s election, the hard work of forming a ruling coalition began.With 67 per cent of precincts reporting, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front and the Petro Poroshenko Bloc were neck and neck, winning about 22 per cent of the votes each.Expectations were that the two will work together in government, …read more
Source: AsiaOne
