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The veteran leader of Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Dzhemilev, has been briefly detained by Russian border guards while entering Crimea from mainland Ukraine. Dzhemilev was accompanied by Refat Chubarov, the leader of the Crimean Tatars' self-governing body, the Mejlis.

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