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Mansur Mirovalev

EXPLAINED: What will referendums in occupied ukraine regions look like - The Real Truth

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An elderly woman voting during the March 16, 2014 'referendum' in Crimea [Mansur Mirovalev/Al Jazeera]

Kyiv, Ukraine – The pro-Russian authorities had no choice but to bus in hundreds of “film extras”.

That is how Ivan Fyodorov, the pro-Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol, a city in the Russia-occupied southern region of Zaporizhia, described a rally this week backing an upcoming “referendum” to join Russia.

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