By Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's prime minister warned on Thursday of possible attempts by Russia to disrupt an election in Ukraine at the weekend, a vote being held against a background of Russian support for separatist rebels and an unresolved row over gas. Sunday's poll is the first parliamentary election since street protests last winter drove Moscow-backed leader Victor Yanukovich from office and ushered in a pro-Western leadership. Poroshenko is seeking a mandate to press ahead with a plan for ending the conflict with separatists in Ukraine's Russian-speaking eastern regions and establishing an understanding with Moscow while pursuing a course of European integration. Inter fax news agency quoted him as saying on Thursday that he expected to be able to begin forming a new coalition by early next week that would be "pro-European, anti-corruption, without liars and populists." Western governments supported the "Euromaidan" winter protests in Kiev that forced Yanukovich to flee to Russia, but Moscow denounced his overthrow as a coup.
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