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Yuri Yekhanurov flew to Moscow a week after being confirmed in the post he inherited from Yulia Tymoshenko.The Kremlin, which backed Yushchenko’s rival in last year’s election campaign, heaved a sigh of relief at the president’s dismissal of Tymoshenko, accused of prising Ukraine out of its traditional embrace with Moscow and evicting Russian business.
“We, in Russia, hope you can help the president consolidate society and cope with negative tendencies in Ukraine’s economy,” Putin told Yekhanurov.
