Ukraine's Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov has signed a decree endorsing the National Security and Defense Council's decision to redeploy Ukrainian military units from Crimea to mainland.
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Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov has signed a decree endorsing the National Security and Defense Council's decision to redeploy Ukrainian military units from Crimea to mainland, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Andriy Parubiy told reporters.
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Власти пообещали найти и допросить Саакашвили при любых обстоятельствах <a href="http://www.segodnya.ua/img/article/5049/73_main.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.segodnya.ua/img/article/5049/73_main.jpg</a> <a href="http://www.segodnya.ua/img/article/5049/73_tn.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.segodnya.ua/img/article/5049/73_tn.jpg</a> 2014-03-24T17:39:38+02:00Мир МИД уверяет, что допрос будет проходить в рамках закона
Михаил Саакашвили. Автор фото: Анастасия Искрицкая, "Сегодня"
Заявление Вашингтона, выражающее обеспокоенность решением прокуратуры Грузии вызвать экс-президента страны Михаила Саакашвили на допрос по ряду дел, было воспринято в Тбилиси как «совет со стороны партнера», который не повлияет на решимость грузинских властей довести расследование до конца.
«Грузинская общественность должна получить ответы на все интересующиеся вопросы, и должность тут не важна», – заявил заместитель главы МИД Грузии Давид Джалагания.
Он отметил, что «вызов Саакашвили в прокуратуру не навредит европейской перспективе Грузии» и что весь процесс «будет проходить в рамках закона».
Читайте также: Саакашвили могут объявить в розыск - премьер Грузии
Представители парламентского большинства Грузии считают, что заявление Госдепа имеет скорее превентивный характер – для того, чтобы расследование было максимально прозрачным.
Противоположного мнения придерживаются представители грузинской оппозиции. Члены команды Саакашвили из партии «Единое национальное движение» утверждают, что вызов на допрос экс-президента является политически мотивированным и что подобные действия могут привести к ухудшению отношений с Европой и США. Члены «ЕНД» заявляют, что намерены провести масштабные акции протеста в центре города.
Как говорится в распространенном в понедельник заявлении Госдепартамента США, «выше закона никто не может стоять, однако возбуждение сразу нескольких дел одновременно против экс-президента, увеличивает легитимную озабоченность в связи с возможным политическим гонением, особенно тогда, когда система правосудия и правовая система все еще хрупка».
Читайте также: Саакашвили устроился на работу в США
Ранее стало известно, Саакашвили не намерен приезжать в Тбилиси и сотрудничать с главпрокуратурой Грузии. Саакашвили в настоящее время находится в Голландии в семье своей супруги, гражданки Нидерландов и Грузии Сандры Руловс.
Напомним, Саакашвили вызван в главпрокуратуру Грузии для допроса в качестве свидетеля по нескольким уголовным делам, экс-президент должен явиться в ведомство 27 марта. Соответствующую повестку вручили его матери.
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A Ukrainian marine wearing a regimental flag waits to depart Crimea outside a Ukrainian military base in Feodosia (reuters tickers)
By Steve Holland and Aleksandar Vasovic
THE HAGUE/FEODOSIA, Crimea (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama sought support from European allies and China on Monday to isolate Russia over its seizure of Crimea, and Ukraine told its remaining troops to leave the region after Russian forces overran one of Kiev's last bases there.
Obama, who has imposed tougher sanctions on Moscow than European leaders over its takeover of the Black Sea peninsula, will seek backing for his firm line at a meeting with other leaders of the G7 - a group of industrialised nations that excludes Russia, which joined in 1998 to form the G8.
Since the emergency one-hour G7 meeting on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in The Hague was announced last week, President Vladimir Putin has signed laws completing Russia's annexation of the region.
White House officials accompanying Obama expressed concern on Monday at what they said was a Russian troop buildup near Ukraine and warned that any further military intervention would trigger wider sanctions than the measures taken so far.
In what has become the biggest East-West confrontation since the Cold War, the United States and the European Union have imposed visa bans and asset freezes on some of Putin's closest political and business allies. But they have held back so far from measures designed to hit Russia's wider economy.
"Europe and America are united in our support of the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people," Obama said after a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. "We're united in imposing a cost on Russia for its actions so far. Prime Minister Rutte rightly pointed out yesterday the growing sanctions would bring significant consequences to the Russian economy."
He also discussed the crisis at a private meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose government has voiced support for Ukraine's territorial integrity but refrained from criticising Russia. The West wants Beijing's diplomatic support in an effort to restrain Putin.
Moscow formally annexed Crimea on March 21, five days after newly-installed pro-Moscow regional leaders held a referendum that yielded an overwhelming vote to join Russia. Kiev and the West denounced the annexation as illegal.
FURTHER COSTS
Western officials are now focussed less on persuading Putin to relinquish Crimea - a goal that seems beyond reach - than on deterring him from seizing other parts of Ukraine.
"Our interest is not in seeing the situation escalate and devolve into hot conflict," White House national security adviser Susan Rice told reporters. "Our interest is in a diplomatic resolution, de-escalation, and obviously economic support for Ukraine, and to the extent that it continues to be necessary, further costs imposed on Russia for its actions."
In The Hague, leaders of the G7 - the United States, Japan, Canada, Germany, France, Britain and Italy - will discuss how to exert further pressure, and at what potential cost.
"The main idea for the G7 meeting is to show the isolation of Putin. We won't be adopting any sanctions but there might be discussion on what could be the next step," a G7 official said.
He said they were also expected to cancel plans for a G8 meeting at the Russian Olympics site in Sochi, for which preparations were put on hold after Moscow seized Crimea.
Persuading Europeans to sign on to tougher sanctions could be difficult for Obama. The EU does 10 times as much trade with Russia as the United States, and is the biggest customer for Russian oil and gas. The EU's 28 members include countries with widely varying relationships to Moscow.
Central and east European states, which once lived under Soviet domination and joined the EU in the last decade, are mostly urging caution out of fear for their own economies.
But German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the EU's most powerful leader, has taken a tough line with Putin and supported EU moves to reduce the bloc's long-term dependence on Russian energy.
LITTLE RESISTANCE
So far, the seizure of Crimea has been largely bloodless, apart from one Ukrainian soldier and one pro-Moscow militia member killed in a shootout on Tuesday last week. Ukraine's troops left behind in Crimea have been besieged inside bases while offering little resistance.
Russian troops forced their way into a Ukrainian marine base in the port of Feodosia early on Monday, overrunning one of the last remaining symbols of resistance.
"Yesterday we had an agreement: we would lower our flag and the Russians would raise theirs. And this morning the Russians attacked, firing live ammunition. We had no weapons. We did not fire a round," said one marine, Ruslan, who was with his wife Katya and 9-month-old son.
Troops hugged each other in farewell. Some chanted "Hurra! Hurra!" in defiance. One marine in full uniform who declined to identify himself wept and blamed the government in Kiev for the chaotic end to the standoff.
In Kiev, acting president Oleksander Turchinov told parliament the remaining Ukrainian troops and their families would be pulled out of the region in the face of "threats to the lives and health of our service personnel".
That effectively ends any Ukrainian resistance, less than a month since Putin claimed Russia's right to intervene militarily on its neighbour's territory.
Although Russian forces have not entered other parts of Ukraine, NATO says they have built up at the border. The Western military alliance also fears Putin may have designs on a part of another former Soviet republic, Moldova.
Despite the disruption to East-West relations, Washington wants other diplomatic business with Moscow to continue.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was to hold talks later on Monday with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, after meeting the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The OPCW is overseeing the destruction of Syria's toxic stockpile in action sponsored jointly by Washington and Moscow.
Russia hit back symbolically at Canada, announcing personal sanctions against 13 Canadian officials in retaliation for Ottawa's role in Western sanctions so far. It has already taken similar measures against senior U.S. Congress members but not yet European officials.
Western governments are struggling to find a balance between putting pressure on Putin, protecting their own economies and avoiding triggering a vicious cycle of sanctions and reprisals.
Rutte, who is making his residence available to Obama and the other G7 leaders for the talks on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit, said the West might want to move slowly.
"Russia has an economy that is highly focused on oil and gas," Rutte told Reuters. "If it came to putting in place sanctions, that would hurt Russia considerably. So in my view we should do everything to prevent that."
U.S. officials say any further sanctions will need to be carefully calibrated to avoid bans on entire sectors, such as oil or metals, that could reverberate through the global economy. Europe gets around a third of its oil and gas from Russia.
(Additional reporting by Jeff Mason and Justyna Pawlak in The Hague, Gabriela Baczynska in Simferopol, Natalia Zinets in Kiev; Writing by Paul Taylor; editing by David Stamp)
THE HAGUE/FEODOSIA, Crimea (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama sought support from European allies and China on Monday to isolate Russia over its seizure of Crimea, and Ukraine told its remaining troops to leave the region after Russian forces overran one of Kiev's last bases there.
Obama, who has imposed tougher sanctions on Moscow than European leaders over its takeover of the Black Sea peninsula, will seek backing for his firm line at a meeting with other leaders of the G7 - a group of industrialised nations that excludes Russia, which joined in 1998 to form the G8.
Since the emergency one-hour G7 meeting on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in The Hague was announced last week, President Vladimir Putin has signed laws completing Russia's annexation of the region.
White House officials accompanying Obama expressed concern on Monday at what they said was a Russian troop buildup near Ukraine and warned that any further military intervention would trigger wider sanctions than the measures taken so far.
In what has become the biggest East-West confrontation since the Cold War, the United States and the European Union have imposed visa bans and asset freezes on some of Putin's closest political and business allies. But they have held back so far from measures designed to hit Russia's wider economy.
"Europe and America are united in our support of the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people," Obama said after a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. "We're united in imposing a cost on Russia for its actions so far. Prime Minister Rutte rightly pointed out yesterday the growing sanctions would bring significant consequences to the Russian economy."
He also discussed the crisis at a private meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose government has voiced support for Ukraine's territorial integrity but refrained from criticising Russia. The West wants Beijing's diplomatic support in an effort to restrain Putin.
Moscow formally annexed Crimea on March 21, five days after newly-installed pro-Moscow regional leaders held a referendum that yielded an overwhelming vote to join Russia. Kiev and the West denounced the annexation as illegal.
FURTHER COSTS
Western officials are now focussed less on persuading Putin to relinquish Crimea - a goal that seems beyond reach - than on deterring him from seizing other parts of Ukraine.
"Our interest is not in seeing the situation escalate and devolve into hot conflict," White House national security adviser Susan Rice told reporters. "Our interest is in a diplomatic resolution, de-escalation, and obviously economic support for Ukraine, and to the extent that it continues to be necessary, further costs imposed on Russia for its actions."
In The Hague, leaders of the G7 - the United States, Japan, Canada, Germany, France, Britain and Italy - will discuss how to exert further pressure, and at what potential cost.
"The main idea for the G7 meeting is to show the isolation of Putin. We won't be adopting any sanctions but there might be discussion on what could be the next step," a G7 official said.
He said they were also expected to cancel plans for a G8 meeting at the Russian Olympics site in Sochi, for which preparations were put on hold after Moscow seized Crimea.
Persuading Europeans to sign on to tougher sanctions could be difficult for Obama. The EU does 10 times as much trade with Russia as the United States, and is the biggest customer for Russian oil and gas. The EU's 28 members include countries with widely varying relationships to Moscow.
Central and east European states, which once lived under Soviet domination and joined the EU in the last decade, are mostly urging caution out of fear for their own economies.
But German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the EU's most powerful leader, has taken a tough line with Putin and supported EU moves to reduce the bloc's long-term dependence on Russian energy.
LITTLE RESISTANCE
So far, the seizure of Crimea has been largely bloodless, apart from one Ukrainian soldier and one pro-Moscow militia member killed in a shootout on Tuesday last week. Ukraine's troops left behind in Crimea have been besieged inside bases while offering little resistance.
Russian troops forced their way into a Ukrainian marine base in the port of Feodosia early on Monday, overrunning one of the last remaining symbols of resistance.
"Yesterday we had an agreement: we would lower our flag and the Russians would raise theirs. And this morning the Russians attacked, firing live ammunition. We had no weapons. We did not fire a round," said one marine, Ruslan, who was with his wife Katya and 9-month-old son.
Troops hugged each other in farewell. Some chanted "Hurra! Hurra!" in defiance. One marine in full uniform who declined to identify himself wept and blamed the government in Kiev for the chaotic end to the standoff.
In Kiev, acting president Oleksander Turchinov told parliament the remaining Ukrainian troops and their families would be pulled out of the region in the face of "threats to the lives and health of our service personnel".
That effectively ends any Ukrainian resistance, less than a month since Putin claimed Russia's right to intervene militarily on its neighbour's territory.
Although Russian forces have not entered other parts of Ukraine, NATO says they have built up at the border. The Western military alliance also fears Putin may have designs on a part of another former Soviet republic, Moldova.
Despite the disruption to East-West relations, Washington wants other diplomatic business with Moscow to continue.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was to hold talks later on Monday with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, after meeting the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The OPCW is overseeing the destruction of Syria's toxic stockpile in action sponsored jointly by Washington and Moscow.
Russia hit back symbolically at Canada, announcing personal sanctions against 13 Canadian officials in retaliation for Ottawa's role in Western sanctions so far. It has already taken similar measures against senior U.S. Congress members but not yet European officials.
Western governments are struggling to find a balance between putting pressure on Putin, protecting their own economies and avoiding triggering a vicious cycle of sanctions and reprisals.
Rutte, who is making his residence available to Obama and the other G7 leaders for the talks on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit, said the West might want to move slowly.
"Russia has an economy that is highly focused on oil and gas," Rutte told Reuters. "If it came to putting in place sanctions, that would hurt Russia considerably. So in my view we should do everything to prevent that."
U.S. officials say any further sanctions will need to be carefully calibrated to avoid bans on entire sectors, such as oil or metals, that could reverberate through the global economy. Europe gets around a third of its oil and gas from Russia.
(Additional reporting by Jeff Mason and Justyna Pawlak in The Hague, Gabriela Baczynska in Simferopol, Natalia Zinets in Kiev; Writing by Paul Taylor; editing by David Stamp)
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В Крыму со стрельбой захватили десантный корабль "Константин Ольшанский" (фото) <a href="http://www.segodnya.ua/img/article/5049/81_main.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.segodnya.ua/img/article/5049/81_main.jpg</a> <a href="http://www.segodnya.ua/img/article/5049/81_tn.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.segodnya.ua/img/article/5049/81_tn.jpg</a> 2014-03-24T18:19:08+02:00Крым На берегу собрались люди, они кричат: "Слава Украине! Героям Слава! "Ольшанский" - вы герои!"
На озере Донузлав в Крыму российские военные захватили украинский десантный корабль "Константин Ольшанский". Об этом на своей странице в Facebook глава регионального медиацентра Минобороны Крыма Владислав Селезнев.
"В 17:15 "Ольшанский" запустил две дымовых завесы. К нему идет баркас РФ. В 17:21 к "Ольшанскому" приблизился баркас с правого борта. С баркаса U8301 (на его корме Андреевский флаг) кричат "сдавайтесь". Слышны разрывы светошумовых гранат, стрельба из автоматов. По верхней палубе перемещаются неизвестные вооруженные люди. Экипаж забарикаддировался в отсеках корабля. Видно людей в военно-морской форме. В 18:07 украинских офицеров вывели на корму корабля. 10 человек экипажа исполняют гимн Украины. Под звуки гимна флаг Украины на корабле спущен. На берегу собрались люди, они кричат: слава Украине! Героям Слава! "Ольшанский" - вы герои!", - пишет Селезнев.
Захват десантного корабля "Константин Ольшанский" начался еще утром. Большинство экипажа десантного корабля перешла на сторону России, однако корабль остается украинским.
Также неизвестные вооруженные пытались высадиться на борт тральщика "Черкассы". "Вооруженные люди на быстроходных катерах делают попытки высадиться на борт тральщика "Черкассы". Украинский корабль на ходу, совершает маневры, препятствует высадке десанта на борт", - сообщил Селезнев.
Напомним, что около бухты озера Донузлав за последнее время было затоплено уже 4 российских корабля, которые блокируют выход украинским суднам.
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В пояснительной записке к проекту решения отмечается, что его целью и заданием является защита национальных интересов Украины
В Верховной Раде Украины зарегистрирован проект постановления о прекращении членства и участия Украины в Содружестве независимых государств (СНГ)
Текст проекта постановления №4523 сегодня появился на сайте парламента. Документ внес народный депутат из фракции Батькивщина Борис Тарасюк.
В пояснительной записке к проекту решения отмечается, что его целью и заданием является защита национальных интересов Украины и повышение авторитета Украины как самодостаточного государства, которое принимает участие лишь в эффективном и полезном для нее международном сотрудничестве, путем прекращения членства и участия Украины в органах международной организации, которая не выполняет своих заданий и цели и дискредитировала себя отсутствием любой реакции на грубые нарушения Соглашения со стороны одного из основателей СНГ - Российской Федерации.
Как отмечается в проекте постановления, из-за военной агрессии России в Крыму и аннексии АРК на сегодняшний день является нецелесообразным продолжать участие Украины в органах СНГ, а, принимая во внимание то, что Киев не подписал Устав СНГ, не является его стороной, а, следовательно, - не является членом СНГ, Верховная Рада постановляет: "поручить Кабинету министров Украины принять все необходимые меры для немедленного прекращения участия Украины во всех органах СНГ; уплаты членских взносов Украины в СНГ; деятельности Постоянного представительства Украины при СНГ в г. Минск".
Проект решения предлагает прекратить действие постановления парламента от 3 марта 1999 года № 463-XIV "О присоединении Верховной Рады Украины к Соглашению о Межпарламентской Ассамблее стран - участниц Содружества независимых государств".
В тексте проекта предусмотрен отозыв полномочий парламентской делегации Украины и ее руководителей в Межпарламентской ассамблее стран-участниц СНГ.
В случае позитивного голосования за постановление документ вступит в силу со дня его принятия.
Напомним, 19 марта секретарь Совета национальной безопасности и обороны Украины Андрей Парубий заявил, что Украина намерена начать процедуру выхода из СНГ.
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President Obama and Prime Minister Rutte of the Netherlands speak to the press after a bilateral meeting a the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. March 24, 2014.
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G8 summit cancelled
There will be no G8 summit in Russia this year, David Cameron said today.
The meeting was planned for June in Sochi, which staged the Winter Olympics earlier this year.
The Canadians prohibited from entering Russia include aides to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and members of parliament, and the head of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Paul Grod, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.
It said the move was in response to the "unacceptable action by the Canadian side that has inflicted serious damage to bilateral relations", but insisted Russia was open to "constructive" cooperation with Canada.
The list, Associated Press reports, includes Harper's aides Christine Hogan and Wayne Wouters; the House of Commons speaker Andrew Scheer; Peter Van Loan, the government leader in the house; Senator Raynell Andreychuk; and other lawmakers.
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Russia imposes retaliatory sanctions on 13 Canadians
Russia's foreign ministry has announced that it is imposing retaliatory sanctions on 13 Canadian officials, lawmakers and public figures, according to Reuters.
The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, visited Kiev on Saturday. Canadian newspaper the Globe and Mail reported that he "stood shoulder to shoulder with [Ukraine prime minister Arseniy] Yatsenyuk and forcefully rebuked Russian President Vladimir Putin". The newspaper called Harper "the most vocal advocate of expelling Russia
The disconnect between Kyiv and Ukrainian military forces on the ground in Crimea was highlighted today with two telephone conversations broadcast in the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center in Kyiv's Ukraina Hotel.
While Ukraine’s interim President Oleksandr Turchynov and the Defense Ministry said that orders have been given to evacuate some 25,000 military personnel from Crimea, it still remains unclear where they will be deployed on the mainland and where their families will be moved.
The fate of several high-level military commanders detained by Russian forces and whether soldiers will be able to honorably surrender by carrying firearms also remains an unanswered question.
Vladyslav Seleznyov, Ministry of Defense press secretary in Crimea, said by telephone that he is not authorized to give an account of how many military personnel were stationed in Crimea before the Russian invasion that started on Feb. 26-27 and how many would be re-deployed to the mainland.
Speaking of last night’s raid on a Ukrainian marine base near Feodosia, Seleznyov said that all of the estimated 150 Ukrainian troops received “some kind of injury,” including base commander, identified as Lieutenant-Colonel Dmitry Delytysky, who was the most seriously injured “with rib injuries” and Major Rostyslav Lomtiev.
Some 56 marines based in Kerch, the only other marine base in Ukraine, were already overrun by Russians on March 23. They said that they are ready to continue serving their nation on the mainland, but haven’t received orders to leave, according to base deputy commander Oleksiy Nikoforov. Two dozen additional marines, according to Nikofov say, they want to quite the Ukrainian military and continue service in the Russian armed forces.
According to an unnamed Ukrainian marine that the Crisis Media Center connected by phone to the press center, invading Russian forces flew Delytsky by helicopter from the Feodosiya base to an unknown location. Lomtiev is also in Russian custody. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the marine said that a “portion” of the 150 Ukrainian Marines remained on the base to conduct “land amelioration” and were presumably on the side of the Russians. An unnamed number of marines left the Feodosia base.
In a conflicting report, Seleznyov said that the Feodosia marines have refused to leave the base until their two commandeers are returned. He said evacuation of the Feodosia military base would commence at 3 p.m.
Also detained are deputy head of Ukraine’s military and navy, Ihor Voronchenko, and his subordinate Colonel Yuliy Mamchur. Voronchenko has been missing since March 23, presumably captured by Russians. Mamchur was earlier taken by Russian forces earlier and is currently being held in Sevastopol. He commanded the Ukrainian air force base in Belbek.
In the beginning of March, the newly appointed head of Ukraine’s navy swore allegiance to the Crimea region in the presence of its unrecognized pro-Russian leader. Then-Rear Admiral Denys Berezovsky said: "I swear allegiance to the residents of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.” He is now the deputy head of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet,
Volodymyr Voloshyn, president of the Union of Ukrainian Marines, told the Kyiv Post that “I don’t what his fate will be, but I doubt his further career will be successful” under the Russians.
Seleznyov said that Ukraine’s military in Crimea have orders to shoot.
He confirmed earlier media reports that Russians have positioned women and children in the front lines when storming Ukrainian bases in an unspecified number of cases.
Russia’s Defense Ministry has said that the tricolor flag of Russia has been hoisted at 190 Ukrainian military units and facilities in Crimea. A massive Russian military presence has been spotted along Ukraine’s eastern border with Russia.
“The force that is at the Ukrainian border now to the east is very, very sizeable and very, very ready,” U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove said, speaking at an event organized by the German Marshall Fund, a think tank.
He suggested Russia now had enough troops at the ready to push through eastern and southern Ukraine all the way to Moldova.
Kyiv Post editor Mark Rachkevych can be reached at rachkevych@kyivpost.com.
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