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Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

Follow all of the latest developments as they happen.

Final News Summary For September 29

-- We have started a new Ukraine Live Blog. Find it here.

-- Ukraine is marking 75 years since the World War II massacre of 33,771 Jews on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Kyiv.

-- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stabilize a fragile cease-fire in Ukraine and do all he could to improve what Merkel called a "catastrophic humanitarian situation" in Syria.

-- Russia's Supreme Court has upheld a decision by a Moscow-backed Crimean court to ban the Mejlis, the self-governing body of Crimean Tatars in the occupied Ukrainian territory.

* NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv (GMT/UTC +3)

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Here's a video from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service of the scuffles near the Russian Consulate in Odesa.

Activists Arrested Near Russian Consulate In Odesa

Ukrainian police detained four activists during clashes near the Russian consulate in Odesa on September 18. Angry at a vote to the Russian State Duma being held in the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, the activists had tried to prevent Russian citizens from voting in the parliamentary elections. The detainees were charged with disobeying police officers and disorderly conduct. (Natural sound)

Activists Arrested Near Russian Consulate In Odesa
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Here's some more info from our news desk on the scuffles and fisticuffs outside the Russian Embassy in Kyiv (re-upping the video we posted earlier as well):

Protesters Scuffle With Kyiv Police Outside Russian Embassy

Altercation Near The Russian Embassy In Kyiv
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Right-wing protesters scuffled with police in Kyiv as dozens rallied outside the Russian Embassy, where a polling station was set up for Russian citizens to vote in their country's parliamentary elections.

Nationalist Svoboda party leader Ihor Miroshnichenko, who was among the demonstrators on September 18, said Ukraine should not allow “the enemy and state aggressor” to conduct illegal elections in Ukraine.

One demonstrator was detained in a scuffle with police after a few nationalists tried to stop Russian citizens from voting. It was unclear how many Russians actually did cast ballots by day's end.

Scuffles also broke out near the building of the Russian Consulate in Ukraine's Black Sea port city of Odesa.

Russia is holding national elections for the lower house of parliament. The vote is also taking place on the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, the first time since Moscow's annexation of the territory two years ago.

That has angered the Ukrainian government, with Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maryana Betsa saying voting in the Russian election could not take place in her country.

About 80,000 Russian voters live in Ukraine, Russian electoral officials say.

Based on reporting by AP, TASS, Interfax, and the BBC

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