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Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

Follow all of the latest developments as they happen.

Final News Summary For September 29

-- We have started a new Ukraine Live Blog. Find it here.

-- Ukraine is marking 75 years since the World War II massacre of 33,771 Jews on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Kyiv.

-- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stabilize a fragile cease-fire in Ukraine and do all he could to improve what Merkel called a "catastrophic humanitarian situation" in Syria.

-- Russia's Supreme Court has upheld a decision by a Moscow-backed Crimean court to ban the Mejlis, the self-governing body of Crimean Tatars in the occupied Ukrainian territory.

* NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv (GMT/UTC +3)

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More on Gaidar's resignation:

The acting deputy governor of Ukraine's Odesa region, Maria Gaidar, has left the post to become an adviser to Governor Mikheil Saakashvili.

Gaidar's assistant, Viktoria Sybir, said on May 10 that Gaidar resigned after a new law barring a regional lawmaker being simultaneously a civil servant took effect on May 1.

Gaidar, who is a regional lawmaker, has been serving as acting deputy governor of the Odesa region supervising social issues since July 2015.

Gaidar, 33, is the daughter of the late Yegor Gaidar, a reformist Russian prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s.

She is a vocal critic of Yeltsin's successor, Vladimir Putin.

Saakashvili, who served as Georgia's president from 2004 to 2013, has headed the Odesa region since May 2015. (UNIAN, TASS)

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