Rebel areas will be given "special status" for at least three years. As Ukrainians celebratedthe passage of an agreement to deepen ties with the European Union on Sept. 17, the country’s parliament approved legislation giving greater political autonomy to pro-Moscow regions in the country’s east.
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Time: Ukraine grants amnesty and more autonomy to separatist regions
People walk by a destroyed car, on Sept. 15, 2014 at a railways station in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.
