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President Viktor Yanukovich has cut short his holidays to pay a final tribute to Bohdan Stupka, one of Ukraine’s best-known and best-loved actors.

Political rivalries were put to one side as the country’s ex-leader
Viktor Yushchenko also joined mourners at the Ivan Franko National Drama
Theatre in Kyiv. A former culture minister, Stupka was artistic director at the theatre
where his body was taken before burial on Tuesday, July 24. He died on Sunday, July 22,
aged 70, after a long illness.

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