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UNIAN: US State Department says Russia’s Crimea ‘referendum’ was farce

By UNIAN.

Published March 17, 2019. Updated March 17 at 4:10 pm

A Russian soldier patrols in front of a placard reading "Fascism will not pass! All to the referendum!" near the Ukrainian navy headquarters in the Crimean city of Sevastopol on March 19, 2014.

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The United States Department of State has called the “referendum” conducted by Russia in Ukraine’s Crimea five years ago “a farce.”