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Ukraine's leading weather forecaster has been forced off the air after using a bulletin to rant against the government. Throwing caution to the wind, Ludmila Savchenko turned her forecast on Ukrainian National Radio into an impromptu political statement, suggesting that the glorious weather the country was enjoying was some compensation for its ''lawlessness and injustice''. Read more.