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Crimea votes 'yes' to reunification with Russia in referendum
Updated On: 17 March, 2014 09:09 AM IST | | IANS
<p>Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to reunify with Russia, according to preliminary results from the controversial referendum held Sunday in the Crimean Peninsula, which has been part of Ukraine since Russia turned it over to that then-Soviet republic in 1954</p>
Crimea referendum
Simferopol: Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to reunify with Russia, according to preliminary results from the controversial referendum held Sunday in the Crimean Peninsula, which has been part of Ukraine since Russia turned it over to that then-Soviet republic in 1954.
A Crimean man makes the victory sign as he celebrates in Simferopol's Lenin Square after exit polls. Pic/AFP
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