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Pro-Russian Leader Wins Ukrainian Separatist Election, as Kiev Dubs It a ‘Farce’


Pro-Russian separatist Alexander Zakharchenko has easily won an election for leadership of a breakaway republic in eastern Ukraine, the vote’s organisers said on Monday.
Sunday’s vote, the climax of a six-month separatist rebellion in Ukraine’s industrialised east, took place in defiance of Kiev’s pro-Western authorities and was certain to worsen the standoff between Russia and the West over the future of the ex-Soviet republic.
“The central election commission deems Alexander Zakharchenko to be the elected head of the Donetsk People’s Republic,” an election official, Roman Lyagin, told journalists in Donetsk, the separatists’ political and military stronghold in eastern Ukraine.
Zakharchenko, 38, a mining …read more

Source: Newsweek

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