The leader of one of the pro-Moscow separatist republics in eastern Ukraine has said it could soon hold a referendum on joining Russia, raising the spectre of a new annexation by Putin
“I think that in the near future a referendum will be held on the territory of the republic, at which the people will realise their absolute constitutional right and express their opinion about entering the Russian Federation,” Leonid
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