An inline skater whizzes by, while children frolic on a playground just 50 meters from stacks of sandbags and groups of heavily armed men in green fatigues, who guard the entrance to the mayor’s office in Sloviansk, Ukraine. A white 4×4 vehicle is parked right by the playground—its passengers are inside the building, talking to the town’s self-proclaimed “people’s mayor,” Vyacheslav Ponomaryov.
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The seperatist leader of the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk, Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, holds a press conference in Slavyansk on April 21, 2014.
