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20.5.2014
AP has run a story highlighting local anger at pro-Russia separatists. Among other things, it cites an angry meeting -- apparently today -- between breakaway leader Vyacheslav Ponomaryov and locals:
Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, the separatist leader in Slovyansk, later met with about 200 residents, many of whom angrily shouted demands at him to end hostilities. Wearing a pistol on his belt and flanked by a bodyguard toting a Kalashnikov assault rifle, Ponomaryov yelled back at the crowd, saying he will compensate those whose houses were damaged.
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20.5.2014
Interfax is quoting RT as saying a British national who reports for the Russian state broadcaster, Graham Phillips, has been detained in Ukraine.
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20.5.2014
More in a flood of abduction/detention news.
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So Akhmetov comes out against separatists, separatist leader Pushilin says DNR will nationalize factories belonging to the oligarch.
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) May 20, 2014