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A woman watches TV with Russian President Putin speaking during a broadcast of a meeting of the National Security Council on the recognition of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), in St. Petersburg, Russia, 21 February 2022. Putin said he was considering a request from leaders of the two self-proclaimed republics to recognise them as independent states, less than a week after the Duma on 15 February voted to appeal to President Putin to recognise the two Donbas regions. The regions declared independence in 2014 amid an armed conflict in the eastern Ukraine. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA/EFE)
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