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In the past three months, Ukraine has seen a revolution, the Russian annexation of Crimea and a separatist uprising in the southeast that turned deadly again on Thursday. The country is also in the midst of a deep and worsening economic crisis. This is the mess that chocolates-and-media tycoon Petro Poroshenko looks certain to inherit when Ukraine’s presidential election is over.

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