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People queue to the polling stations during a so-called referendum in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on May 11, 2014. Voting began Sunday in referendums called by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine to split from the rest of the ex-Soviet republic, polls the US slammed as “illegal” amid fears they could spark civil war. The vote, carried out as two “referendums” in provinces where the insurgents hold more than a dozen towns, marks a serious deepening of the political crisis in Ukraine, which has pushed East-West relations to lows not seen since the end of the Cold War. (Photo by Genya Savilov/AFP Photo)
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