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History's unfinished business
The conflict on Ukraine's streets is taking place amid a wider battle for regional supremacy between Russia and the Nato alliance, writes JOHN FOSTER

Yesterday's agreement on new elections in Ukraine by the end of the year may resolve the immediate conflict in one of Europe's largest countries.

But the issues behind the protests that have brought Ukraine to the brink of civil war remain.

Alongside long-standing divisions in the country itself it has become a battleground for outside powers.

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