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Moscow warns France over warship deal as concerts cancelled and plant of Euromaidan backer Petro Poroshenko is shut down. 

 Russia fired the first salvoes in what could develop into a trade war with Ukraine and the west, closing a Ukrainian-owned confectionery factory and stepping up inspections of goods at the border. 

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