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Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has slammed as inhumane plans by the self-imposed Kiev authorities to cut social payments. "Their plans to cut social spending, pensions, allowances and salaries are inhumane and directed against the people. I, our government, had a clear-cut plan of maintaining the current living standards in Ukraine," Yanukovych told journalists in Rostov-on-Don on Tuesday.

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