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 As friends and family waited impatiently to hear from Simon Ostrovsky, the American journalist kidnapped by pro-Russian insurgents April 22, an image of a scantily dressed woman crawling across a bed appeared on his Facebook page April 23, likely the work of hackers. Also April 23, the self-proclaimed mayor of the Ukrainian city of Slovyansk said he would not free Ostrovsky.

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