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World Service,12 May 2014,24 mins

Flawed Poll in Ukraine

World Business Report

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Ukrainians in the east of the country have used an unofficial poll to express their desire for closer ties with Moscow. We hear from Donetsk that the region's economic future relies on good relations with Russia. And, it's the last day of voting in India's marathon elections. What will be on the new government's to do list, especially when it comes to economic policy? Michael Hughes suggests it should be a dose of eighties-style Reaganomics. In Libya a stalemate over control of the country's oil terminals is costing the country billions of dollars in lost revenue. And, we hear from Hong Kong where the youngest and most vulnerable, domestic servants, are struggling to be heard.

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