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Ukraine was awarded the Euro 2012 championship along with neighbouring Poland in 2007 in a decision meant to reward
and promote the two football-loving ex-Communist Eastern European countries,
with Poland already a proud member of the EU and Ukraine aspiring to join.
Back then, the Ukrainian economy was booming and the West was infatuated
with the country after the 2004 pro-democracy mass protests known as the Orange Revolution brought to power a pro-Western government.
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