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Ukraine threatened to prosecute and ban famous Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica from its territory after he visited Crimea and praised the Russian takeover of the peninsula.

The Ukrainian embassy in Belgrade sent an open letter to Kusturica on Tuesday, warning that anyone who breaches the country’s Law on Temporarily Occupied Territories by visiting Russian-annexed Crimea will be prosecuted.

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