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Igel

(37,547 posts)
5. Many won't.
Mon Oct 27, 2014, 07:08 AM
Oct 2014

The LNR "IDs" don't have photos.

Ukrainian passports have been confiscated in some areas. Mostly the same areas where obsolete hryvnas from the Crimea have been introduced and where the official exchange rate is 1 hr = 1 ruble and some transactions are to be carried out in rubles. (It's more like 1:2 on the world markets, so if you have rubles and want to make a killing you just say, "You gotta use rubles and I'm selling them at 100% mark-up." Such a nice, friendly government. A week or two later they barred the remaining banks that were open from currency exchange, leaving them and their cronies the only game in town.)

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I wish them well Duckhunter935 Oct 2014 #1
They've declared there'll be monitors. Igel Oct 2014 #2
RT will be there Duckhunter935 Oct 2014 #4
Almost 3 million in the east of the country won't be able to vote! elias49 Oct 2014 #3
Many won't. Igel Oct 2014 #5
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