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| Ukraine Rebels Plan November Vote despite Peace Plan |
| 2014-09-24 |
| [AnNahar] Pro-Russian rebels defiantly announced Tuesday they would stage their own elections in November, raising the stakes in a standoff with Kiev despite both sides moving to end five months of deadly fighting. The prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, said the eastern separatist region would hold elections to choose a parliament and a leader on November 2. The chairman of the "Supreme Soviet", or parliament, in the neighboring Lugansk People's Republic, Alexei Karyakin, told the TASS news agency that the region would hold polls on the same day. |
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