LVIV, Ukraine - Ukraine and the European Union ratified a political and economic agreement on Sept. 16 in a step leaders hailed as a "historic moment." The EU Association Agreement includes free-trade provisions, although they will not come into force until January 1, 2016.
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Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko shows a newly voted Ukrainian law about the ratification of the Ukraine-EU pact on Sept. 16, 2014 in Verkhovna Rada.
