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World Service,27 Aug 2014,10 mins

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Steve Rosenberg is touched by the words of a poet in Luhansk who has been chronicling developments in eastern Ukraine. Yana Lyushnevskaya catches up with old friends in Crimea and asks whether they identify themselves as Russians or Ukrainians since Russia annexed the region in March. Presented by Owen Bennett Jones Produced by Laura Gray Picture: A woman cooks over a campfire due to gas cuts in her building on August 3, 2014 in the city of Popasna, Luhansk region. (ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP/Getty Images)

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