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Aleksandr Malykhin, chairman of Luhansk's separatist election commission, announces results of the referendum in the Luhansk region on May 12.
Aleksandr Malykhin, chairman of Luhansk's separatist election commission, announces results of the referendum in the Luhansk region on May 12.

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-- Self-appointed leaders of the Ukrainian separatist region of Donetsk appealed to Russia to consider absorbing it to "restore historic justice" and to send in troops.

-- Pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk said they would not allow voting for the May 25 presidential election to be conducted.

-- Diplomats say the European Union agreed to impose sanctions against 13 additional individuals and two companies, believed to be the first time the EU has targeted companies over the Ukraine crisis.

-- Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov called the votes a "sham" and the United States said they were illegal and merely "an attempt to create further division and disorder in the country."

-- RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service said one of its affiliate radio stations in Donetsk was taken off the air by gunmen and replaced by a pro-Russian broadcaster.

-- The Kremlin said Ukrainian officials in Kyiv should hold talks with pro-Russian separatists on the results of the self-rule referendums, adding that it respected the "expression of the people's will."

-- Insurgents in eastern Ukraine said nearly 90 percent of voters backed self-rule in the votes.

*NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv
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RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reports that a member of the Crimean Tatars' self-government body, the Mejlis, Abduraman Egiz, was attacked today in Simferopol.

Unidentified people in "Self-Defense" uniforms stopped his car and demanded his ID. When he refused to present his ID and asked to call the police, he was beaten up by several people. His car was searched.

When Egiz finally had a chance to show his ID and the people who stopped him realized he was a Mejlis member, they let him go.

A Mejlis spokesman said the case will be reported to the police and he expects more violence in coming days.
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There has been speculation that Petro Poroshenko could have replaced current acting President Oleksandr Turchynov:
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Presidential front-runner Petro Proshenko claims gas used in Odesa:
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow ready to work for nationwide dialogue in Ukraine.

But he says holding new international talks on Ukraine pointless now because first agreement has not been implemented.

He says the talks unlikely to add anything in the absence of the pro-Russian "opposition" at the negotiating table.

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