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The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called on the Russian authorities to release the gravely ill activist Eden Bekirov, who was illegally arrested and held in the Simferopol-based detention facility since December 2018, and Ukrainian activist Oleksandr Kolchenko, who was illegally convicted in Russia.

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