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A Russian cultural center has been evicted by the local council in Lviv. The building is now to be handed over to groups involved in the Ukrainian army’s operation in eastern Ukraine against pro-Russian separatists.

Members of the Russian community and its Pushkin Society call the decision to evict them from Korolenko Street 1a in Lviv politically motivated. “This is an anti-Russian decision. We own the property and the authorities have no right to get rid of us,” Albert Astachov, the society’s chairman, told DW.

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