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A pro-Russia demonstrator gestures as others storm the prosecutor-general's office during a rally in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday, March 16, 2014. Pro-Russia demonstrators in the eastern city of Donetsk called Sunday for a referendum similar to the one in Crimea as some of them stormed the prosecutor-general's office. (AP Photo/Andrey Basevich)

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Referendum officials empty ballot boxes to begin counting votes at a polling station in Simferopol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 16, 2014. Polls have closed in Crimea's contentious referendum on seceding from Ukraine and seeking annexation by Russia. The vote, unrecognized both by the Ukrainian government and the West, was held Sunday as Russian flags fluttered in the breeze and retirees grew weepy at the thought of reuniting with Russia. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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A pro Russia man put his balot into the ballot box at a polling station in Bachisaray, a village with Tatar majority in Crimea, Ukraine, Sunday, March 16, 2014. While Crimea's ethnic Russian majority may be in favor of joining Russia, the Tatars who were deported during World War II, fear that they will once again be unwelcome in their homeland. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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Referendum officials sort ballots at a polling station in Simferopol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 16, 2014. Polls have closed in Crimea's contentious referendum on seceding from Ukraine and seeking annexation by Russia. The vote, unrecognized both by the Ukrainian government and the West, was held Sunday as Russian flags fluttered in the breeze and retirees grew weepy at the thought of reuniting with Russia. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Pro-Russia demonstrators storm the prosecutor-general's office during a rally in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday, March 16, 2014. Pro-Russia demonstrators in the eastern city of Donetsk called Sunday for a referendum similar to the one in Crimea as some of them stormed the prosecutor-general's office. (AP Photo/Andrey Basevich)