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Ukraine"s new president, Viktor Yanukovych...
have long fought over natural gas deliveries, jeopardizing supplies to Europe, which gets around a quarter of its gas from Russia. In the latest row at the start of 2009, Russia halted all deliveries via Ukraine"s pipeline system for two weeks.Last year"s gas conflict was resolved when a deal on gas imports and transit was agreed by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Yulia Tymoshenko, who lost to Yanukovych in the February 7 presidential election runoff.
The Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday passed a vote of no-confidence in Tymoshenko"s government facing Yanukovych with a new uncertain task of building a new majority coalition.
KIEV/MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
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