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KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s new president signed a deal Wednesday allowing Russia’s Black Sea Fleet to stay in the country another 25 years, moving to ease a long- standing source of tension in the region.
Viktor Yanukovych and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, announced the breakthrough after a hastily scheduled summit in Kharkiv, Ukraine, saying that Ukraine will extend the lease on the Russian naval base in Sevastopol to 2042 in exchange for a steep discount on purchases of Russian natural gas.
