Ukraine's parliament is poised to shift even further away from Russia and toward Europe after voters on Sunday overwhelmingly supported parties promising deepening Western integration. The outcome is an affirmation of the current government's drive to decrease dependency on Russian natural gas and integrate Ukraine's gas and electricity infrastructure with that of Europe's. The vote count was slow, but with nearly twothirds of the ballots counted by late Monday, the People's Front, an upstart led by Prime Minister Arseniy Yastenyuk, was leading with 21.7%, slightly ahead of the equally young Petro Poroshenko Bloc, named after the acting president, which had 21.4%.
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