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Supporters of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic dressed up perform during a rally in Donetsk on May 11, 2015 to mark the first anniversary of referendums called by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine to split from the rest of the ex-Soviet republic, polls that have been slammed as “illegal” by Kiev and the West. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine, sparked in April 2014 as Ukraine cemented ties with the European Union and after Russia annexed the Crimea peninsula, has so far claimed more than 6,100 lives and plunged Western ties with Moscow into the deep freeze. (Photo by Alexander Gayuk/AFP Photo)
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