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The General Consul of the Russian Federation in the Autonomous republic of the Crimea Vyacheslav Svetlichny, left, gives the Russian passport to a soldier of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's Berkut riot police unit at the Russian Consulate in Simferopol.
- Categories: Unrest, Conflicts & War, Politics
- Location: Simferopol, Ukraine
- Event date: 01.03.2014
- Date published: 01.03.2014
- Author: Taras Litvinenko
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 3373x2291px, 4.4Mb