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Yesterday morning, the streets of Kyiv were plastered with images of a young woman’s bruised and swollen face. The almost unrecognisable photograph was of Tetyana Chernovil, a journalist known for her investigations into government corruption, who was in intensive care yesterday preparing for a series of operations to repair her face, shattered in a beating by unknown assailants.

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