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Five years ago Oleksandr Medvedev, like the vast majority of Ukrainians, would watch Russian movies and TV programmes and listen to Russian music.

But for him, that changed after Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of a Kremlin-backed insurgency in the east of the former Soviet republic.

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