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Oct. 26, 2014 Parliamentary Election

First session of new Rada opened in Kyiv

By Interfax-Ukraine.
This handout picture taken and released by Ukrainian Prime Minister press-service on Sept. 10, 2014, shows Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (R) talking with the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk during a cabinet meeting in Kyiv.
Photo by AFP PHOTO/ PRIME MINISTER PRESS-SERVICE/ ANDREW KRAVCHENKO

Oleksandr Turchynov, the chairman of the 7th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, opened a ceremonial session of the 8th parliament in Kyiv on Nov. 27, at which the parliamentarians are to take an oath. 

During the opening ceremony, the Ukrainian national anthem was performed by the Hryhory Veriovka National Academic Popular Choir.

Attending the ceremony are Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Cabinet members led by Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk, former Presidents Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma, and Viktor Yuschenko, members of the diplomatic corps and other dignitaries. 

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