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Moscow - Moscow on Monday, Feb.24 urged the Ukrainians to bring back the situation in their country into "the legal framework" and "crack down on the extremists who are trying to get established in power." 

“We earnestly call upon all those who are involved in the crisis in Ukraine to show the maximum sense of responsibility, to take action to prevent the further degradation of the situation, to bring it back into the legal framework, and to crack down on the extremists who are trying to get established in power,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its website, www.mid.ru.