Antigovernment protesters calling for closer ties with Moscow seized regional government headquarters in two cities in Ukraine's east Sunday in the most serious unrest there in the past month.
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Pro-Russian supporters deploy a Russian flag and the flag of the so-called Donetsk Republica as they storm the regional administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on April 6, 2014. About 50 protesters chanting \"Donetsk is a Russian city!\" broke through police lineson April 6 and stormed inside the main administration building of the eastern Ukrainian city. The activists moved away from a crowd of about 2,000 rallying on the main city square and threw firecrackers at police surrounding the government seat before raising the Russian flag above the 11-storey building. AFP PHOTO/ ALEXANDER KHUDOTEPLY
