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![Nine Berkut soldiers get Russian passports in Crimea](https://img.sputnikimages.com/images/vol1%2Fmedia%2Foriginal%2Fold%2F239%2F01%2F2390138_hires_0%3A0%3A0%3A0_1400x1000_80_10_1_VGFyYXMgTGl0dmluZW5rbyAjMjM5MDEzOA%3D%3D_116%3A95_sputnik-2390138-preview_55ef7b3579e128f1c35b5b61b66c5606.jpg)
A beret of a member of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's Berkut riot police unitduring the the ceremony of handing out Russian passports at the Russian Consulate in Simferopol.
- Categories: Politics, Unrest, Conflicts & War
- Location: Simferopol, Ukraine
- Event date: 01.03.2014
- Date published: 01.03.2014
- Author: Taras Litvinenko
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 3456x2304px, 4.2Mb