DONETSK, Russia - A preliminary hearing in the trial of a Ukrainian officer charged in the deaths of two Russian journalists started in Russia's south on July 30.
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Russian riot police officers patrol in the court yard in Donetsk, in the Rostov-on-Don region of Russia, on July 30, 2015, where the high-profile trial of the 34-year-old Ukrainian airforce helicopter navigator Nadezhda (Nadya) Savchenko will begin on July 30.
