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Pro-Russian activists proclaim independence for Ukraine’s Donetsk
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/07/pro-russian-activists-proclaim-independence-for-ukraines-donetsk/
Pro-Russian activists proclaim independence for Ukraine’s Donetsk
By Agence France-Presse
Monday, April 7, 2014 9:37 EDT
Pro-Russian activists who seized the main administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk proclaimed Monday the creation of a sovereign “people’s republic” independent of Kiev rule.
The decision was announced to reporters by a spokesman for the protesters who came out of the occupied building.
Footage posted on YouTube showed one Russian speaker telling the packed assembly from a podium: “Seeking to create a popular, legitimate, sovereign state, I proclaim the creation of the sovereign state of the People’s Republic of Donetsk.”
The announcement was met by a huge roar from about a hundred men packed inside an auditorium of what appeared to be the Donetsk administration building.
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Donetsk is on the eastern portion of Ukraine:
