A man walks by a 2016 decoration, in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, December 28, 2015. Ukraine's GDP has dropped by 9 percent over the year 2015, according to the IMF forecast. President Petro Poroshenko said close to 9,000 person, including servicemen and civilians, have died in the country's east – the area of the war conflict against pro-Russian separatists; close to 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees, have seek shelter as they escape from the zone of the conflict. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)
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