Newly elected parliamentary deputies take their oath during the first session of the new Ukrainian parliament, which was elected in October, in Kiev November 27, 2014. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament approved Arseny Yatseniuk for a new term as prime minister on Thursday in a ceremony that countered reports of high-level disunity in a message to Russia over its backing of separatists in the country's east.
Pomp and emotion characterised the opening of Ukraine's first parliament since the February fall of pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovich as his successor, Petro Poronshenko, declared in a keynote speech that there could be no future formula for Ukraine other than that of a single, unified state.
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