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Ukraine ushers in new era

AFP, Kiev
A new era dawned in Ukraine yesterday as parliament appointed a pro-Western interim leader after ousted president Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev to escape retribution for a week of deadly carnage.
The ex-Soviet state's tumultuous three-month crisis culminated in a dizzying flurry of historic changes over the weekend that saw parliament sideline the pro-Russian president and call a new poll for May 25.
Lawmakers then went a step further by approving the release from her seven-year jail sentence of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko - a star of the 2004 Orange Revolution who was thrown behind bars less than a year after Yanukovych came to power in 2010.
The constitutional legitimacy of parliament's actions remains an open question and Yanukovych vowed in a taped interview to fight the "bandits" who now claimed to rule Ukraine.
But Yanukovych's grasp on power was in limited evidence in Kiev yesterday as the city's police presence vanished and protesters took control of everything after a week of bloodshed that claimed nearly 100 lives.
The United States vowed to drum up financial help that could pull Ukraine out of a crisis sparked in November when Yanukovych spurned a historic EU deal and secured a $15-billion
bailout for the struggling nation of 46 million people, from its old master Russia.
Lawmakers voted to name close Tymoshenko ally Oleksandr Turchynov - himself only appointed parliament speaker on Saturday in place of a veteran Yanukovych supporter - as interim president tasked with forming a new government by tomorrow.
New interior minister Arsen Aviakov announced the launch of a probe into police involvement in the "execution" of protesters in a week of carnage that turned Kiev's heart into a war zone.
Yanukovych was dealt another blow when his own Regions Party issued a statement condemning him for issuing "criminal orders" that led to so many deaths.Parliament also voted to dismiss Ukraine's Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara after sacking the federal police chief and prosecutor
general on Saturday.
And it took the symbolic step of handing over Yanukovych's marble-lined mansion outside Kiev - its vast car collection and golden toilet fixtures opened up for public viewing on Saturday - to the state.
Western countries gave vital but cautious backing to the sweeping changes in Ukraine while Russia once again cautioned that payment of its huge bailout package was on hold.
Ukraine stands on the precipice of a default and owes nearly $ 13 billion in debt payments this year -money it cannot drum up on financial markets because of prohibitively expensive borrowing costs.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin also tried to calm some of the Cold War-style joisting that had erupted between the West and Moscow over Ukraine's future in the past weeks.
A Merkel spokesman said the two leaders agreed on the need to preserve Ukraine territorial integrity -- a reference to the deep cultural fissure that runs between the pro-European west of the country and its far more Russified east.
The whereabouts of Yanukovych remained a mystery amid speculation that he was hiding out in the pro-Russian east. Ukraine's border service said he had been prevented from fleeing the country out of the eastern city of Donetsk because his charter plane did not have the required paperwork.