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Former PM, "chocolate king" billionaire register for Ukraine's elections

2014-03-29 309 Dailymotion

A confectionary billionaire and a former Ukrainian Prime Minister are going head to head in the country's May elections.<br/> <br />Here in capital Kiev, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and confectionary billionaire Petro Poroshenko submit their registrations.<br/> <br />Crimea's been the center of attention following the region's annexation to Russia, raising tensions to the highest they've been between East and West since the Cold War.<br/> <br />Tensions aside, Tymoshenko is calling for unity.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) BATKIVSHCHYNA PARTY LEADER AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, YULIA TYMOSHENKO, SAYING:<br/> <br />"I think it's high time now in Ukraine to bring order to all spheres of our life. To defend Ukraine from aggressors, to return justice to people - they have been waiting for many years - get rid of corruption and oligarchs in Ukraine and build a strong economy and build a European Ukraine."<br/> <br />While Poroshenko thinks Ukraine needs a new system.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE)(English) PRESIDENTIA

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