By Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko threw his support behind Arseny Yatseniuk for a new term as prime minister on Friday, ending speculation that he would seek to try to bring in his own candidate as head of a new pro-Europe, reformist government. Ukraine won a vital breathing space by sealing an interim gas supply deal with Russia on Thursday that will see it through winter, but the new Kiev government faces a mountain of other problems, not least pro-Russian insurrection in eastern areas. Poroshenko offered his quick backing for Yatseniuk after the 40-year-old former economy and foreign minister, whose People's Front ended slightly ahead of the President's own bloc in an election last Sunday, had bluntly said he expected to stay on. The move confirmed that the partnership between the two men will dominate Ukraine's political landscape in the near future as it battles a separatist rebellion in the east and pursues a course for European integration deeply opposed by Russia.
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