Ukraine
will swear in its new president on Saturday, amid glimmers of hope for a
solution to a crisis that has pitted it against its giant Russian
neighbour. Ukraine's new leader, Petro Poroshenko, will take the oath in Kiev's parliament the day after he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, widely seen in Ukraine as the country's nemesis, during World War II commemorations in northern France.
"The dialogue has begun, and that's a good thing," Poroshenko said on Ukrainian television after the brief encounter.
He added that a Russian representative would travel to Ukraine for talks Sunday amid the first bilateral steps towards resolving their differences.
Putin and Poroshenko on Friday also jointly called for a ceasefire in the troubled southeast of Ukraine in a potential breakthrough in a crisis that has poisoned Moscow's relations with the West.
Poroshenko, a 48-year-old billionaire, was elected with 54.7 percent of the votes in presidential elections on May 25.
His inauguration ceremony will be attended by a range of foreign VIPs, including US Vice President Joseph Biden and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy...
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