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Oleksandr Turchynov, Parliamentary speaker and a top Ukrainian opposition politician ……………………………. (assume) the post of interim president less than a day after the country's former leader Victor Yanukovych ……………………………. (be) dismissed from office.
On Saturday, parliament ……………………………. (vote) to dismiss President Yanukovych and ……………………………. (set) early elections for May 25. On Sunday they ……………………………. (meet) in a special session in an attempt to start forming a new national unity government.
As part of a deal to end weeks of violence, former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko ……………………………. (be) freed from a prison hospital.
Yulia Tymoshenko, one of the leaders of Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution, ……………………………. (become) prime minister from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 11 March 2010 . In 2011 she ……………………………. (face) trial for alleged abuse of power over a natural gas deal with Russia and ……………………………. (be) sentenced to prison. Her supporters say it ……………………………. (be) political revenge by President Viktor Yanukovych.
Ukrainians ……………………………. (give) her a hero's welcome when she ……………………………. (speak) to protesters in Kiev on Saturday.
President Viktor Yanukovych, who ……………………………. (flee) Kiev for the eastern city of Kharkiv, said "Parliament's decisions ……………………………. (be) illegal. I ……………………………. (future - negative resign) and I ……………………………. (future - negative leave) Ukraine either. However, Yanukovych ……………………………. (be) almost powerless. His Cabinet ……………………………. (promise) to back a new government, the police ……………………………. (support) the opposition, and the army ……………………………. (future - negative get) involved.
Protests ……………………………. (erupt) in November when President Yanukovych ……………………………. ( walk out) of a trade deal with the European Union in favor of closer ties to Russia. The protests ……………………………. (begin) peacefully but descended into violence. Nearly 100 people ……………………………. (be) killed, when police snipers ……………………………. (shoot) some protesters in the head.
Ukraine's 46 million inhabitants ……………………………. (be) split between those in the east who favor ties with Russia, and those in the west who lean toward the European Union.
