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Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.

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Vladimir Putin
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 7
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